The Movie Database Support

I'm looking at this collection using the API, by calling this endpoint:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/collection/14890

and the results I'm getting don't match what I see on the website. What's on the website is correct:

  1. Bad Boys
  2. Bad Boys II
  3. Bad Boys for Life
  4. Bad Boys: Ride or Die

However, what I see from the API is not the same; here's a subset of the result:

[
  {
    "title": "Bad Boys for Life",
    "id": 38700
  },
  {
    "title": "Bad Boys",
    "id": 9737
  },
  {
    "title": "Bad Boys II",
    "id": 8961
  },
  {
    "title": "Bad Boys: Ride or Die",
    "id": 573435
  }
]

This is placing the third film — Bad Boys for Life as the first.

Since the website is correct, I guess this is just an API issue?

Thanks,
Clue Liss

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Hey Casey,

I don't believe the results in the collection end point are explicitly ordered. My suggestion would be to sort by the release_date field locally, on your client.

TMDB does not store any order information about collection parts at this time (I have an open ticket for that), and we just sort by the release date as well.

😳 🤦🏻‍♂️

Whoopsie doopsie! That's my bad then; thanks for clarifying!

For what it's worth, may be worth adding a small clause to the API endpoint to make this explicit?

Thanks again, [No Longer] Clue Liss

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