Returns the current top movies and TV shows in a movie genre or subgenre. The list changes over time and, by design, is limited to a maximum of 100 per genre or subgenre.
descriptor/significantmovies?apikey=apikey&sig=sig&genreids=genreids [&format=format] [&offset=offset] [&count=count] [&country=country] [&language=language]
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Parameter | Required | Description |
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apikey | Yes | Access code that authorizes your request for data from Rovi. |
genreids | Yes | Genre ID or subgenre ID. You can get IDs of movie genres and subgenres from Descriptor/Genres or Descriptor/MovieGenres.
Replace any spaces in an ID with plus (+) or percent20 (%20) symbols. To specify multiple IDs, use a comma-separated list, like this: genreids=D+++646,D+++647. |
sig | Yes | A calculated, 32-hex-digit authorization code. To perform the calculation, execute the MD5 function on the concatenation of the following three ASCII strings:
Express the alpha hex digits as lower case. Perform the calculation at the time of each request to be sure it's within a five-minute window of the server time. If you're testing the call in a browser, use our online signature generator to perform the calculation. |
count | No | Number of items to be returned. The default is zero, which returns all items after the offset. |
country | No | Country the language parameter applies to. The current release of the API supports only US. |
format | No | Format of the returned data: json or xml. The default is JSON. |
language | No | Language of the response data. This request supports only en (English). |
offset | No | Number of items at the start of the available data to skip. The default is zero.
Use count and offset to paginate the data that is available to be returned. |
Response | Type | Description |
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build | string | The software release level of the API. |
code | integer | HTTP status code. See the status field for the text part of the code. |
duration | integer | Server processing time in milliseconds. The difference between startTime and endTime. |
endTime | string | When the server sent the response (UTC time). |
messages | Message [ ] | Elements of a multiple HTTP response status message. |
parameters | parameters | The parameters that were included in the request. |
serverName | string | Name of the server that processed the request. |
startTime | string | When the server received the request (UTC time). |
status | string | Text part of the HTTP status code, which is shown in the code field. |
view | view | Summary of items returned in a list of items. |
Response | Type | Description |
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movies | SignificantMovie [ ] | Top movies and TV shows in the genres or subgenres specified in the request. |