TMDb

TMDb (The Movie Database) is a community-built movie and TV database that exposes a REST API for searching and retrieving details about movies, TV shows, people, companies, keywords, and certifications. This connector lets Nexla ingest TMDb data as a source using pre-built endpoint templates.

Power end-to-end data operations for your TMDb API with Nexla. Our bi-directional TMDb connector is purpose-built for TMDb, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to TMDb or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your TMDb workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

• Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
• Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
• API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
• Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites

Before creating a TMDb credential, you need a TMDb API key. TMDb authenticates API requests with an API key that is tied to your TMDb account.

To obtain your API key, follow these steps:

1. Create a free account at themoviedb.org and verify your email address, or sign in if you already have an account. TMDb recommends completing registration on a desktop browser.

2. Open your account Settings and select the API section, or go directly to themoviedb.org/settings/api.

3. Request an API key, choose the appropriate usage type (for example, Developer), and accept the TMDb API Terms of Use.

4. Complete the short application form describing your intended use.

5. After the request is approved, copy the API Key (v3 auth) value shown on the API settings page. You will enter this value when creating your Nexla credential.

Keep your API key confidential. If it is ever exposed, you can regenerate it from the same TMDb API settings page. For full details, see the TMDb API documentation.

Authenticate

Credentials required

Field	Required	Secret	Description
API Key	Yes	Yes	API key.

Create a credential in Nexla

1. After selecting the data source type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

2. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

3. Enter your TMDb API key in the API Key field. This is the API Key (v3 auth) value obtained in Prerequisites, and it must be kept confidential.

   If your API key is compromised, regenerate it from your TMDb API settings and update the credential in Nexla.

   For detailed information about TMDb authentication and available endpoints, see the TMDb API documentation.

4. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source creation.

Use as a data source

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the TMDb connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to TMDb, and click Next; or, create a new TMDb credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common TMDb endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.

[Rest API] List Search Collections

This endpoint template retrieves collection search results from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest collection search results into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Search Companies

This endpoint template retrieves company search results from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest company search results into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Search Keywords

This endpoint template retrieves keyword search results from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest keyword search results into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Search Movies

This endpoint template retrieves movie search results from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest movie search results into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Search Multi

This endpoint template retrieves combined (multi) search results across movies, TV shows, and people from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest combined (multi) search results across movies, TV shows, and people into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Search People

This endpoint template retrieves people search results from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest people search results into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Search Tv Shows

This endpoint template retrieves TV show search results from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest TV show search results into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Certification Movie

This endpoint template retrieves the list of movie certifications from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest the list of movie certifications into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Certification Tv

This endpoint template retrieves the list of TV certifications from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest the list of TV certifications into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Changes Movie

This endpoint template retrieves the list of movies that have changed from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest the list of movies that have changed into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Changes Tv

This endpoint template retrieves the list of TV shows that have changed from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest the list of TV shows that have changed into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Changes Person

This endpoint template retrieves the list of people records that have changed from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest the list of people records that have changed into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Movies Details

This endpoint template retrieves movie details from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest movie details into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Movies Alternative Titles

This endpoint template retrieves alternative titles for a movie from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest alternative titles for a movie into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Movies Credits

This endpoint template retrieves the cast and crew credits for a movie from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest the cast and crew credits for a movie into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Movies External Ids

This endpoint template retrieves external IDs for a movie from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest external IDs for a movie into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Movies Images

This endpoint template retrieves images for a movie from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest images for a movie into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Movies Keywords

This endpoint template retrieves keywords associated with a movie from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest keywords associated with a movie into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Movies Latest

This endpoint template retrieves the most recently added movie from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest the most recently added movie into a Nexset.

[Rest API] List Movies Lists

This endpoint template retrieves the lists that a movie belongs to from the TMDb API. Select it when you want this source to ingest the lists that a movie belongs to into a Nexset.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Manual configuration

TMDb data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid TMDb API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates, chained API calls, or custom request parameters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Create button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the new TMDb data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.