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Problem when a given language is specified
posted by angelkedSTAFFMOD on February 17, 2018 at 11:41 PM
Hi, it happens sometimes that when you specify a language such as Spanish, I do not find results in some fields, but for example in English (default language) or in a certain other language (French) there is a result.
So I was asking, it would be possible to make sure that when specific a specific language.
If in that field in that specified language is not found, then use the field in the default language or in another language.
That is to have a second reserve language.
We already talked about it here: https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/5a4fad600e0a262d9600090b#5a510889925141132c00cb62
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 17, 2018 at 12:46 AM
Hi @angelked,
Overall language fallbacks is a different thing all together. Since our API is fairly heavily cached, it makes doing something like this quite difficult. If one day, I get enough time to fully migrate the API to our cacheless infrastructure, this would be a possibility but as it stands right now it's just not feasible.