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Rotten Tomatoes is a film review website which includes an API for retrieving information about films and reviews it received. Use this tag for questions about using that API.

Rotten Tomatoes is a film review website which includes an API for retrieving scores given to movies by critics and audiences, and reviews written by critics. Limited metadata and low-resolution posters and images are also available. TV scores may be added in the future.

The API was formerly hosted at developer.rottentomatoes.com, where usage and examples and method documentation were hosted. This information is no longer publicly available.

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Error when trying to use urllib3 & json to get Rotten Tomatoes data (Python)

As an introduction to APIs, I'm trying to figure out how to access data in python using the Rotten Tomatoes API. This is also my first time dealing with json. I'm using Python 3.4 and have confirmed that json and urllib3 have been installed. Here is…
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How to handle the wrong JSON content type from web-services using the JAX-RS standard client API?

I want to use the Rotten Tomatoes API to search for movies. I have an equivalent fully working application that uses TMDB rather than Rotten Tomatoes. I use the standard JAX-RS Client, provided by JBoss RESTEasy with the RESTEasy Jackson2 provider…
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ColdFusion CFHTTP working with data returned from API

I am just starting to work with the Rotten Tomatoes API to retrieve movie information, and I need some help understanding how to work with the data that is returned. This is my first time working with an API such as this, so please forgive me if…
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How to request movie data from Rotten Tomatoes using their JSON API?

In my Android application I have one EditText, one Button, and one Listview. When I type a movie name into my EditText field and press on the Button, I want the ListView to be populated with movie names from the Rotten Tomatoes website that match…
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Error: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:8000' is therefore not allowed access

I am new to AJAX calls and I would like to mock up the rottentomatoes search page. I'm getting the correct JSON file but it won't load on my browser. I have been researching and have not found a solution. Any help would be appreciated. Here is my…
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API request returns crap in some cases

I'm using rotten tomatoes API and when I try to get movie information sometimes it returns me normal json as it suppose to, but there are movies in which case it returns something like this ���������[o7���+|�Y��,��nhҠMQ�!p�#--.�…
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undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass in Rails while using a for loop

Getting an undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass error for <% for movie in trailers %>
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    foreach only bringing back last item in array

    I am trying to extract data from an API based on information from two different tables, before cycling through a foreach and parsing this data into the query. I have constructed a series of queries which get me the exact data I'm looking for (name…
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    How can I stop a curl script?

    I have a curl script that I have calling Rotten Tomatoes. Every time I run it, even in a for loop from 1 to 10, it runs infinitely. The only way to stop it is by restarting the server, the page continues to call the rotten tomatoes site until the…
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    Basic use of an API (The Rotten Tomatoes API)

    I'm trying to achieve this: Use the Rotten Tomatoes API to return a list of movie's by querying a list of movie IDs. Now, I've not used an API before, so I'm finding my around the concepts. I've chosen to go with Javascript to interact with the…
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    The Rotten Tomatoes star rating in Google results

    I would simply like to know how to display a star rating taken from individual pages to be displayed in google results ala rotten tomatoes or metacritic or imdb. If you search for 'Drive Rotten Tomatoes' in google it returns a link that also…
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    Issues using GSON with Rotten Tomatoes API (Android)

    I'm trying to parse the JSON data from the Rotten Tomatoes API using GSON in Android. I can get some of it parsed, but I seem to be having trouble with the arrays inside of my base result object. Here is my "MovieObject" class: package ---; import…
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    jQuery autocomplete with rotten tomatoes api

    I'm trying to use autocomplete for getting movie suggestion from rottentomatoes in JSON format. But the code below doesn't show any suggestion.