TheTVDB.com

For this code execution i am getting the error :



Probably because of Cross domain restrictions ? And yes i could not yet figure where to use my api key.

I'm fairly sure you can't access data from an external server with an XMLHttpRequest.

There's some solutions to the issue here.

yep i read that too. probably i am still having issues in understanding the tvdb api. can you pls let me know how can i download the tvdb .. and where shall i use my api key.. there is no clear documentation on tvdb api so i am bit confused.. also pls let me know if the api works well for javascript.


Thank you

Everything you should need to get you started is on the wiki: http://www.thetvdb.com/wiki/index.php/Programmers_API

As far as I know for JavaScript apart from a few possible workarounds, like with any other 3rd party api you won't be able to access it directly, you'll need to have something on your server fetch the api content and make it available to your JavaScript code (in effect a proxy). This is due to the cross domain restrictions in browsers.

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I am still not able to get anything fruitful from the API wiki. May be i am a naive developer .

Anyways, i could not find the database for Series. Do i need to create a replcia of db on my local machine and then use api calls ?

What i need to do is:

1. Provide a user interface for entering a show.
2. For that selected show i form a URL using the code

var mirror="http://thetvdb.com/";
var showURL= mirror + "api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=" + show + "&language=" + lang;

3. Now i am generating an XML file here which i can see on browser but when i try to get this xml file into a string, my code fails.


also i am doubtful this might be happening because there is no place where i was required to use my API Key,

Please suggest ...

No, all the calls are documented under "File Structure" & "Example Usage" on http://www.thetvdb.com/wiki/index.php/Programmers_API. If you do want a snapshot of the entire database you are able to get one from a topic on the forums somewhere but these are rarely needed by developers and you still need to use the api to keep upto date.


As has been pointed out above this is due to cross domain restrictions in browsers. This stops javacript from somedomain1.com calling a file from somedomain2.com. To get around this you will probably need to implement a server side proxy on your site (using php/asp/perl/python etc). This will mean your data flow goes: javascript on webpage -> your local proxy -> thetvdb.com api and back again. If you google "javascript cross domain" you'll get a load of pages explaining the browser limitations and possible solutions. We can help with API related issues but we won't be able to help you implement an intermediate proxy to be able to access the api from javascript



As documented on the wiki page, not all the calls require api keys, for example step 3 doesn't but step 4 does:

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