TheTVDB.com

Hi.

Together with a friend I'm currently developing a small web page/web app around tv series and we decided to use thetvdb as the data source. Although I never expect our side to get many visitors, I want to implement our API right, so that we make you as least trouble as possible.

Whenever a user searches on the site, we search our local database (which will also be populated with names and IDs from one of your database dumps) and if that is unsatisfying, we use the tvdb api (and also store the result to our database, so that we won't need to query our site for the same request again). Whenever a specific series is requested we first look in our database. If we don't have data we plan to use the /series/id/all of your api. However it seems just the xml version is available. Is there a way to use the zipped files or is it ok to use the /all XMLs?

Thank you very much in advance!

No reason you can't use the xmls opposed to the zips, althought would recommend using the zips for size reasons etc.
The format its:
http://thetvdb.com/api/<API Key>/series/<series Id>/all/<language code>.zip eg http://thetvdb.com/api/<API code>/series/71256/all/en.zip

More details on the wiki: http://www.thetvdb.com/wiki/index.php/Programmers_API

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Thanks

Thank you a lot. I tried the same thing yesterday but obviously I did something wrong, because I kept getting 404 errors when trying to load the zip. (xml worked)