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Movie search issue (order of results)
posted by BaldinoSTAFFMOD on January 27, 2018 at 4:12 PM
In this example, we are looking for the movie "The runner (2015)" => https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/277546-the-runner
The api call is:
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=xxxxx&language=fr-FR&page=1&include_adult=false&query=the%20runner&year=2015
5 results are found:
- "The Maze Runner (2014)" => https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/198663-the-maze-runner
- "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)" => https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/294254-maze-runner-the-scorch-trials
- "The Runner (2015)" => https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/277546-the-runner
- "El corredor (2014)" => https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/338540-el-corredor
- "Blade Runner (1982)" => https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/78-blade-runner
The result #3 is the exact match of the query, it should be at position #1.
Reply by Travis Bell
on January 29, 2018 at 1:30 AM
Search is not really designed to return exact matches first. There can be other titles that have higher weight factors that can influence the sort order like popularity.