Movie API Search

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Overview

• For this challenge I used https://developers.themoviedb.org API for access to millions of movies and TV shows.
• Rails application was created using --api flag
• Database contains Search and Movie Tables
• The Search Table records all searches. I added a unique check to make sure each search is unique.
• If a search is not unique then an error message is returned.
• You can add a string to the search and all matches will be returned
• You can add sort to the query to sort by popularity
• For the Movie Model You can add movies to be included in the search.
• All basic CRUD operations can be used on the Movie model.
• If any movies are added to the Movies Table they are added to the search
• Included Tests for the movie Model
• Deployed Application to Heroku for easy access

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Example Search

You can connect to the API by using CURL

Request

$ curl 'https://api-movie-search.herokuapp.com/searches?search=avengers'

Response

[
  {
    "title": "Avengers: Infinity War",
    "popularity": 105.431
  },
  {
    "title": "Avengers: Endgame",
    "popularity": 63.349
  },
  ...

Adding sort

By adding sort=true you can sort by popularity

Request

$ curl 'https://api-movie-search.herokuapp.com/searches?search=avengers&sort=true'

Response

[
  {
    "title": "Matrix",
    "popularity": 0.62
  },
  {
    "title": "Matrix",
    "popularity": 0.64
  },
  {
    "title": "Matrix III",
    "popularity": 1.083
  },
  {
    "title": "Making 'The Matrix'",
    "popularity": 1.098
  },
  {
    "title": "V-World Matrix",
    "popularity": 1.4
  },
  ...

Creating a Movie

Request

$ curl -d "title=summer time&popularity=15" -X POST 'https://api-movie-search.herokuapp.com/movies'

Response

{"id":8,"title":"summer time","popularity":15,"created_at":"2020-06-29T04:24:45.925Z","updated_at":"2020-06-29T04:24:45.925Z"}

Updating a Movie

Request

$ curl -d "title=Mid July&popularity=15" -X PUT 'https://api-movie-search.herokuapp.com/movies/8'

Response

{"id":8,"title":"Mid July","popularity":15,"created_at":"2020-06-29T04:24:45.925Z","updated_at":"2020-06-29T04:27:43.611Z"}

Deleting a Movie

Request

$ curl -X DELETE 'https://api-movie-search.herokuapp.com/movies/8'

Response

{"status":"ok","code":200,"message":"Movie deleted successfully"}

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Things to note

• Any movie added to the database will appear in the search
• I could of added pagination, so that when the results return we can see all of them instead of the results getting truncated
• I don't like the 'no duplicate search' rule, it seems unecessary
• Overall, Good experience making this challenge. It was fun and simple.