Film Finder

Hi, I completed all 27 steps but when I try to run my code nothing appears when I select a dropdown option. Can someone help?

Here is my code:

const tmdbKey = 'My API';
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();
        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();
        const movie = jsonResponse.results
        return movie

      }
  }
  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 = await getMovieInfo(randomMovie);
displayMovie(info)
};

getGenres().then(populateGenreDropdown);
playBtn.onclick = showRandomMovie;

Just making sure - does your code in your project have your API key assigned to tmdbKey?

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NVM i figured out my problem.

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