Hello team,
I have finished the FilmFinder Project, except one point which is not working: When I try to append the selected Genre to the getMovies() GET request, it fails saying I dont have a valid API key (which I have ofc).
The getGenres() and getMovieInfo()functions are working, also the getMovies() works when I just send the API key without the " ?with_genres=${selectedGenre} " part.
I really dont know what is wrong
Im grateful for any hint where things are off…
Thanks!
Code & Error Msg below:
const getGenres = async () => {
const genreRequestEndpoint = '/genre/movie/list';
let requestParams = `?api_key=${tmdbKey}`;
let urlToFetch = `${tmdbBaseUrl}${genreRequestEndpoint}${requestParams}`;
try {
const response = await fetch(urlToFetch, {method:'GET'});
if (response.ok) {
const jsonResponse = await response.json();
const genres = jsonResponse.genres;
return genres;
}
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
};
const getMovies = async () => {
const selectedGenre = getSelectedGenre();
const discoverMovieEndpoint = '/discover/movie';
let requestParams = `?api_key=${tmdbKey}?with_genres=${selectedGenre}`;
let urlToFetch = `${tmdbBaseUrl}${discoverMovieEndpoint}${requestParams}`;
try {
const response = await fetch(urlToFetch, {method: 'GET'});
if (response.ok) {
const jsonResponse = await response.json();
const movies = jsonResponse.results;
return movies;
}
} catch (error) {
console-log(error);
}
};
const getMovieInfo = async (movie) => {
let movieId = movie.id;
const movieEndpoint = `/movie/${movieId}`;
let requestParams = `?api_key=${tmdbKey}`;
let urlToFetch = `${tmdbBaseUrl}${movieEndpoint}${requestParams}`;
try {
const response = await fetch(urlToFetch, {method: 'GET'});
if (response.ok) {
const jsonResponse = await response.json();
const movieInfo = jsonResponse;
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();
};
let movies = await getMovies();
let randomMovie = getRandomMovie(movies);
let info = await getMovieInfo(randomMovie);
displayMovie(info);
};
getGenres().then(populateGenreDropdown);
playBtn.onclick = showRandomMovie;