Hi everybody! I just finished coding this exercise. The Dropdown worked but the code didn’t manage to generate movie info by clicking the button. Here is my code.
onst tmdbKey = "<api_key>";
const tmdbBaseUrl = "https://api.themoviedb.org/3";
const playBtn = document.getElementById("playBtn");
const getGenres = async () => {
const genreRequestEndpoint = "/genre/movie/list";
const requestParams = `?api_key=${tmdbKey}`;
const urlToFetch = `${tmdbBaseUrl}${genreRequestEndpoint}${requestParams}`;
try {
const response = await fetch(urlToFetch);
if (response.ok) {
const jsonResponse = await response.json();
console.log(jsonResponse);
const genres = jsonResponse.genres;
return genres;
}
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
};
const getMovies = async () => {
const selectedGenre = getSelectedGenre("");
const discoverMovieEndpoint = "/discover/movie";
const requestParams = `?api_key=${tmdbKey}&with_genres=${selectedGenre}`;
const urlToFetch = `${tmdbBaseUrl}${discoverMovieEndpoint}${requestParams}`;
try {
const response = await fetch(urlToFetch);
if (response.ok) {
const jsonResponse = await response.json();
console.log(jsonResponse);
const movies = jsonResponse.results;
return movies;
}
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
};
const getMovieInfo = async (movie) => {
const movieId = movie.id;
const movieEndpoint = "/movie/{movieId}";
const requestParams = `?api_key=${tmdbKey}`;
const urlToFetch = `${tmdbBaseUrl}${movieEndpoint}${requestParams}`;
try {
const response = await fetch(urlToFetch);
if (response.ok) {
const movieInfo = await response.json();
return movieInfo;
}
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
};
// Gets a list of movies and ultimately displays the info of a random movie from the list
const showRandomMovie = async () => {
const movieInfo = document.getElementById("movieInfo");
if (movieInfo.childNodes.length > 0) {
clearCurrentMovie();
}
const movies = await getMovies();
const randomMovie = getRandomMovie(movies);
const info = getMovieInfo(randomMovie);
displayMovie(info);
};
getGenres().then(populateGenreDropdown);
playBtn.onclick = showRandomMovie;
Here is the error on the console.