vtmdb

A more modern package to access the content of TMDb.

🚧 This package is in alpha stage. Use at your own risk! 🚧

⚙️ Installation

In your project root folder, enter the following command in the terminal:

$ yarn add vtmdb

or, if you use NPM:

$ npm install vtmdb

🤖 Usage

Import the class Tmdb in your project and initialize it passing the parameters for the API key and the language that you want to get the results. For example, new Tmdb('pt-BR') will return results in Brazilian Portuguese.

If no language parameter is specified then the default language will be set to English.

Get a show by ID

// Import the package in your script and initialize the Tmdb class
import Tmdb from 'vtmdb'
const tmdb = new Tmdb('apikey')

// Get the details of the show "The Simpsons"
tmdb.getShow('tt0096697')
    .then(console.log)

And the response should be something similar to this:

{
    "identifier": "tt0096697",
    "url": "https://www.Tmdb.com/title/tt0096697",
    "name": "The Simpsons",
    "summary": "The satiric adventures of a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield.",
    "description": "This is an animated sitcom about the antics of a dysfunctional family. Homer is the oafish unhealthy beer loving father, Marge is the hardworking homemaker wife, Bart is the perpetual ten-year-old underachiever (and proud of it), Lisa is the unappreciated eight-year-old genius, and Maggie is the cute, pacifier loving silent infant.",
    "year": 1989,
    "contentRating": "TV-PG",
    "alternativeName": null,
    "duration": 22,
    "aggregateRating": { "ratingValue": 8.7, "ratingCount": 353617 },
    "genre": [ "Animation", "Comedy" ],
    "image": {
        "small": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYjFkMTlkYWUtZWFhNy00M2FmLThiOTYtYTRiYjVlZWYxNmJkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTAyODkwOQ@@._V1_UX182_CR0,0,182,268_AL_.jpg",
        "big": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYjFkMTlkYWUtZWFhNy00M2FmLThiOTYtYTRiYjVlZWYxNmJkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTAyODkwOQ@@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,666,1000_AL_.jpg"
    },
    "recommended": [
        { "identifier": "tt0121955", "name": "South Park" },
        { "identifier": "tt0182576", "name": "Family Guy" },
        { "identifier": "tt0149460", "name": "Futurama" },
        { "identifier": "tt0397306", "name": "American Dad!" },
        { "identifier": "tt0462538", "name": "The Simpsons Movie" },
        { "identifier": "tt0412142", "name": "House" },
        { "identifier": "tt2861424", "name": "Rick and Morty" },
        { "identifier": "tt2085059", "name": "Black Mirror" },
        { "identifier": "tt1628033", "name": "Top Gear" },
        { "identifier": "tt0098904", "name": "Seinfeld" },
        { "identifier": "tt3398228", "name": "BoJack Horseman" },
        { "identifier": "tt0367279", "name": "Arrested Development" }
    ]
}

Documentation

For detailed information on how to use this package, please check the API reference for more examples.

📝 License

vtmdb is released under the ISC License. See LICENSE for details.

👨🏾‍💻 Author

Vinicius Egidio (vinicius.io)