Movie/Crew

Returns information about crew members with links to images.

This request may return a large amount of data. To speed data transmission, do the following:

Request one page of data at a time, requesting only what you want to immediately display.
Request a compressed response by including Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate in the HTTP header.

Syntax

movie/crew?

movie=movie
movieid=movieid
cosmoid=cosmoid

&apikey=apikey&sig=sig [&format=format] [&offset=offset] [&count=count] [&country=country] [&language=language]

Request Example 1

Request the crew list of Being John Malkovich using the movie ID.

http://api.rovicorp.com/data/v1.1/movie/crew?apikey=apikey&sig=sig&movieid=V+++180993

Request Example 2

Request the crew list using the movie title.

http://api.rovicorp.com/data/v1.1/movie/crew?apikey=apikey&sig=sig&movie=Being+John+Malkovich

Request Example 3

Request just the first five crew names in the list.

http://api.rovicorp.com/data/v1.1/movie/crew?apikey=apikey&sig=sig&movieid=V+++180993&count=5

Request Example 4

Request just the next five.

http://api.rovicorp.com/data/v1.1/movie/crew?apikey=apikey&sig=sig&movieid=V+++180993&offset=5&
count=5

Request Parameters

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Parameter	Required	Description
apikey	Yes	Access code that authorizes your request for data from Rovi.
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: Your API key. The secret key you received with your API key. The Unix time. Unix time is a timestamp supported in most development environments, and is generally defined as the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT. 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.
cosmoid	Conditional	Cosmo database ID for a movie or television series. Cosmo is a database of television information. Condition: The request must contain just one of these parameters: `movie` `movieId` `cosmoId`
movie	Conditional	Keywords from the title of the movie or TV series. This searches for the most popular title with that combination of words. Replace spaces with plus (+) or percent20 (%20) symbols. Condition: The request must contain just one of these parameters: `movie` `movieId` `cosmoId`
movieid	Conditional	AMG ID of a movie or TV series, consisting of the letter V followed by 9 digits with leading spaces. When using an AMG Video ID in a request, replace any spaces in the ID with plus (+) or percent20 (%20) symbols, like this: `V+++295550`. Your application can grab movie IDs from responses to the following requests: Search Similiar FilterBrowse Movie/Related MovieRelease/Info Name/Filmography Recommendations Descriptor/SignificantMovies Condition: The request must contain just one of these parameters: `movie` `movieId` `cosmoId`
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

Response Header

Response	Type	Description
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.
parentIds	parentIds	All of the IDs for the requested object that are recognized by the API.
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 for Movie/Crew

Response	Type	Description
crew	People [ ]	Crew names, roles, and images.

JSON Response Example

Here's the response to Request Example 3, which asks for the first five crew names in the crew list of Being John Malkovich. The response is formatted with extra spaces and carriage returns to make it easy to read.

Requested with http://api.rovicorp.com/data/v1.1/movie/crew?apikey=apikey&sig=sig&movieid=V+++180993&
count=5.

{
  "status":"ok",
  "code":200,
  "messages":null,
  "build":"1.5.1.9",
  "parameters":{
    "apiKey":"apikey",
    "id":"V  180993",
    "offset":0,
    "count":5
  },
  "view":{
    "offset":0,
    "count":5,
    "total":85
  },
  "serverName":"tul1cssw4",
  "startTime":"2011-04-26T23:57:27.3964569Z",
  "endTime":"2011-04-26T23:57:27.3964569Z",
  "duration":0,
  "parentIds":{
    "cosmoId":"2512627",
    "movieId":"V  180993"
  },
  "crew":[
    {
      "id":"P307807",
      "name":"Adam Milo Smalley",
      "role":"Music Editor",
      "thumbnail":""
    },
    {
      "id":"P412210",
      "name":"Andy Jenkins",
      "role":"Title Design",
      "thumbnail":""
    },
    {
      "id":"P398814",
      "name":"Barbara Gorden",
      "role":"Animal Trainer\/Wrangler",
      "thumbnail":""
    },
    {
      "id":"P263499",
      "name":"Björk",
      "role":"Songwriter",
      "thumbnail":"http:\/\/actual-url-concealed.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id":"P398810",
      "name":"California Ballet",
      "role":"Choreography",
      "thumbnail":""
    }
  ]
}

XML Response Example

Here's an XML response to Request Example 3, which asks for the first five crew names in the crew list of Being John Malkovich.

Requested with http://api.rovicorp.com/data/v1.1/movie/crew?apikey=apikey&sig=sig&movieid=V+++180993&
count=5&format=xml.

<MovieCrew xmlns="com.rovicorp.metadataservice" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <status>ok</status>
  <code>200</code>
  <messages i:nil="true"/>
  <build>1.5.1.9</build>
  <parameters>
    <apiKey>apikey</apiKey>
    <id>V 180993</id>
    <offset>0</offset>
    <count>5</count>
    <format>xml</format>
  </parameters>
  <view>
    <offset>0</offset>
    <count>5</count>
    <total>85</total>
  </view>
  <serverName>tul1cssw3</serverName>
  <startTime>2011-04-26T23:57:47.3903688Z</startTime>
  <endTime>2011-04-26T23:57:47.4059941Z</endTime>
  <duration>15</duration>
  <parentIds>
    <cosmoId>2512627</cosmoId>
    <movieId>V 180993</movieId>
  </parentIds>
  <crew>
    <People>
      <id>P307807</id>
      <name>Adam Milo Smalley</name>
      <role>Music Editor</role>
      <thumbnail/>
    </People>
    <People>
      <id>P412210</id>
      <name>Andy Jenkins</name>
      <role>Title Design</role>
      <thumbnail/>
    </People>
    <People>
      <id>P398814</id>
      <name>Barbara Gorden</name>
      <role>Animal Trainer/Wrangler</role>
      <thumbnail/>
    </People>
    <People>
      <id>P263499</id>
      <name>Björk</name>
      <role>Songwriter</role>
      <thumbnail>http://actual-url-concealed.jpg</thumbnail>
    </People>
    <People>
      <id>P398810</id>
      <name>California Ballet</name>
      <role>Choreography</role>
      <thumbnail/>
    </People>
  </crew>
</MovieCrew>

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