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Composer name

posted by baskar
STAFFMOD
on December 24, 2013 at 7:38 AM

How do i get composer of the movie?

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Travis Bell

Reply by  Travis Bell

STAFFMOD

on December 24, 2013 at 10:35 AM

Hi baskar,

You'll be able to find the "Original Music Composer" under the crew section found in the credits method.

PatFr38

Reply by  PatFr38

STAFFMOD

on May 8, 2024 at 4:18 AM

Hi Travis,

This subject interests me, but your 11 years ago answer is left (page has been deprecated). Please, could you give me another on the new documentation location? Thank you in advance.

talestalker

Reply by  talestalker

STAFFMOD

on May 8, 2024 at 7:00 AM

You can find movie credits method here. Or you can just query movie details with append_to_response=credits parameter (see here).

PatFr38

Reply by  PatFr38

STAFFMOD

on May 8, 2024 at 7:07 AM

Thanks alot, talestalker.

PatFr38

Reply by  PatFr38

STAFFMOD

on March 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM

Hi.

Sorry, but I still don't find how to get details of a movie... Is it possible to give me the complete URL for having the director o f the movie, the Original Music Composer, please? What do I have to add in the URL to have what I would like, please, like in the exemple "videos"? https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/27205?append_to_response=videos&language=en-US

talestalker

Reply by  talestalker

STAFFMOD

on March 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM

Just add credits to append_to_response:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/27205?append_to_response=videos,credits&language=en-US&api_key=###

PatFr38

Reply by  PatFr38

STAFFMOD

on March 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM

Thanks, talestalker, but it's not all I need for what I would like to have... What do I have to put in the URL to have in a shield with ID "Composer" for exemple the Original Music Composer of the movie, please?

I have found we can make a request in credits, crew, job and then director, Original Music Composer... But I don't know how to use it...

Until now, I have a HTML page wich aloud me to have few details of a movie, but not all I would like... Here is it:

<html>
<head lang="fr">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Test moteur de recherche TMDB</title>
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.7.1.min.js" integrity="sha256-/JqT3SQfawRcv/BIHPThkBvs0OEvtFFmqPF/lYI/Cxo=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
</head>
 <body>

    <div class="box">
        <input type="text" id="query" /><button id="searchBtn1">Recherche</button><br/><br/>
        <img src="" class="poster" id="poster"/>
        <hr>
        Titre : <p id="movie_name"></p>
        <br/>
        Titre original : <p id="original_title"></p>
        <br/>
        Date de sortie : <p id="release_date"></p>
        <br/>
        Synopsis : <p id="movie_desc"></p>
        <br/>
        ID :<br/>
        <p id="id_film"></p>
        <br/>
    </div>

    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
        $('#searchBtn1').click(function(){
            var api_key = 'MYAPIKEY';
            let query=$('#query').val();
        $.getJSON("https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key="+api_key+"&language=fr-FR&query="+query+"&page=1&include_adult=false",function(data){
        console.log(data.results[0])
        $('#poster').attr("src","https://media.themoviedb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/"+data.results[0].poster_path)
        $('#movie_name').html(data.results[0].title)
        $('#original_title').html(data.results[0].original_title)
        $('#release_date').html(data.results[0].release_date)
        $('#movie_desc').html(data.results[0].overview)
        $('#id_film').html(data.results[0].id)
        })
        })
    </script>

    <style>
        .poster{width: 188px;}
    </style>
 </body>
</html>
PatFr38

Reply by  PatFr38

STAFFMOD

on March 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM

I have found this other code, but I don't know what to change in it to have the Director and the Original Music Composer:

// Function to get movie detail object taking movie id as a parameter
function getMovieDetail(id) {
  return fetch('https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/' + id + '?language=fr-FR', options)
    .then((response) => response.json())
    .then((data) => {
      return data;
    })
    .catch(err => console.error(err));
}

// Function to open the modal and populate it with movie details
function openMovieModal(movie) {
  const modalTitle = document.getElementById("movieModalLabel");
  const modalPoster = document.getElementById("modalPoster");
  const modalReleaseDate = document.getElementById("modalReleaseDate");
  const modalRuntime = document.getElementById("modalRuntime");
  const modalOverview = document.getElementById("modalOverview");
  const modalVoteAverage = document.getElementById("modalVoteAverage");

  // Populate modal
  modalTitle.textContent = `${movie.title} (${new Date(movie.release_date).getFullYear()})`;
  modalPoster.src = `${baseImageUrl}${movie.poster_path}`;
  modalReleaseDate.textContent = movie.release_date;
  modalRuntime.textContent = `${Math.floor(movie.runtime / 60)}h ${movie.runtime % 60}min`;
  modalOverview.textContent = movie.overview;
  modalVoteAverage.textContent = movie.vote_average;

  // Open the modal
  const movieModal = new bootstrap.Modal(document.getElementById("movieModal"));
  movieModal.show();
}
talestalker

Reply by  talestalker

STAFFMOD

on March 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM

Thanks, talestalker, but it's not all I need for what I would like to have... What do I have to put in the URL to have in a shield with ID "Composer" for exemple the Original Music Composer of the movie, please?

All TMDB API can do for you is provide a JSON that contains the data you want. In your case, this request (assuming you change the ### to your API key):

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/27205?append_to_response=videos,credits&language=en-US&api_key=###

returns a 217 kB JSON that contains, among other things, the following (shortened and formatted for clarity):

{
  "adult": false,
  "backdrop_path": "/8ZTVqvKDQ8emSGUEMjsS4yHAwrp.jpg",
  "belongs_to_collection": null,
...
  "id": 27205,  
...
  "original_language": "en",
  "original_title": "Inception",
  "overview": "Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: \"inception\", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.",
...
  "credits": {
    "cast": [
...
    ],
    "crew": [
...
      {
        "adult": false,
        "gender": 2,
        "id": 947,
        "known_for_department": "Sound",
        "name": "Hans Zimmer",
        "original_name": "Hans Zimmer",
        "popularity": 1.5703,
        "profile_path": "/tpQnDeHY15szIXvpnhlprufz4d.jpg",
        "credit_id": "56e8462cc3a368408400354c",
        "department": "Sound",
        "job": "Original Music Composer"
      },
...
      {
        "adult": false,
        "gender": 2,
        "id": 525,
        "known_for_department": "Directing",
        "name": "Christopher Nolan",
        "original_name": "Christopher Nolan",
        "popularity": 2.5244,
        "profile_path": "/xuAIuYSmsUzKlUMBFGVZaWsY3DZ.jpg",
        "credit_id": "5e83ac2ee33f830018359a00",
        "department": "Directing",
        "job": "Director"
      },
...
    ]
  }
}

TMDB support ends with the delivery of the above JSON and how you handle it is entirely up to your code. For example, if you are writing a javascript code, you will need to make a URL request and import the JSON into a javascript object (that's what the getMovieDetail(id) function does in your second example) and then find all the necessary information like director and original movie composer yourself. But for help with javascript please look somewhere else, such as Stack Overflow.

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