TMDb is a community built movie and TV database. The Movie Database (TMDb) is a well known, popular, user editable database for movies and TV shows. TMDb.org, which is a crowd-sourced movie information database used by many film-related consoles, sites and apps, like XBMC, Myth TV and Plex. The Movie Database (TMDb) is a database of TV shows and movies which permits users to edit data. Since 2008, the users have been editing and adding the data through TMDb.
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1. First, navigate to the TMDb website and create an account if you haven't already done so.
2. Once you have an account, log in and navigate to your account settings.
3. In your account settings, click on the "API" tab.
4. On the API page, click the "Generate new API key" button to create a new API key.
5. Give your API key a name and select the appropriate permissions for your use case.
6. Copy the API key that is generated.
7. Navigate to Airbyte and click on "Sources" in the left-hand menu.
8. Click the "New Source" button and select "TMDb" from the list of available connectors.
9. Enter a name for your TMDb source and paste the API key you copied earlier into the "API Key" field.
10. Click the "Test" button to ensure that your credentials are valid and that Airbyte can connect to your TMDb account.
11. If the test is successful, click the "Create" button to save your TMDb source and begin syncing data.
1. Open the Airbyte platform and navigate to the "Destinations" tab on the left-hand side of the screen.
2. Scroll down until you find the "MSSQL - SQL Server" connector and click on it.
3. Click on the "Create new destination" button.
4. Fill in the required information, including the destination name, host, port, database name, username, and password.
5. Click on the "Test connection" button to ensure that the connection is successful.
6. Once the connection is successful, click on the "Save" button to save the destination.
7. Navigate to the "Sources" tab on the left-hand side of the screen and select the source that you want to connect to the MSSQL - SQL Server destination.
8. Click on the "Create new connection" button.
9. Select the MSSQL - SQL Server destination that you just created from the drop-down menu.
10. Fill in the required information for the source, including the source name, host, port, database name, username, and password.
11. Click on the "Test connection" button to ensure that the connection is successful.
12. Once the connection is successful, click on the "Save" button to save the connection.13. You can now start syncing data from your source to your MSSQL - SQL Server destination.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The TMDb (The Movie Database) API provides access to a wide range of data related to movies and TV shows. The following are the categories of data that can be accessed through the TMDb API:
- Movie data: This includes information about movies such as title, release date, runtime, budget, revenue, genres, production companies, and more.
- TV show data: This includes information about TV shows such as title, air date, episode count, season count, networks, genres, and more.
- People data: This includes information about people involved in movies and TV shows such as actors, directors, writers, and producers.
- Keyword data: This includes information about keywords associated with movies and TV shows such as plot keywords, genres, and more.
- Collection data: This includes information about collections of movies such as franchises, trilogies, and more.
- Review data: This includes information about reviews of movies and TV shows such as user ratings and reviews.
- Image data: This includes images related to movies and TV shows such as posters, backdrops, and stills.