SimpleDiscovery

Simple Discover is a stand alone javscript library that helps quickly interface with THE MOVIE DATABASE'S DISCOVER API

It is very simple to implement and use.

Version

0.1

HOW TO

Setup is simple

just include the js file

<script data-tmdbkey="[YOUR_API_KEY]" src="js/simplediscover.js"></script>

Then create a new simpleDiscover

var dis = new simpleDiscover();

Next add a filter. The first perameter is what you'd like to filter by. The second is how youd like to compare in this case we will use equal since we are searching for a person.

dis.addFilter("person","=","Tom Cruise");

Then you can add a sort to your discovery

dis.addSort("popularity","desc");

Now you can select which page you'd like to return the results from.

dis.page = 1;

Once you have configured the discover then you can now discover your results passing in a callback function so you can handle the data however you'd like

dis.discover(function(data){
    console.log(data.results[0].poster_path);
});

Here is some example code that uses jQuery and the simpleDiscover

$(document).ready(function(){
	
	/**************
	CREATE FILTER
	**************/
	window.disc = new Discoverer();
	disc.addFilter("person","=","kevin spacey")
	disc.addFilter("date","<","2013");
	disc.addFilter("date",">","2000");
	disc.addSort("popularity","desc");
	disc.discover(addMovies);

});

  /************
	Add Movies To Display;
  *************/
function addMovies(data){
	var config = data.config;
	var results = data.results;
	var totalMovies = results.length;
	var cont = $("body");
	//cont.html("");
	var offset = 0;
	var i=0;
	while(i<totalMovies && i < results.length && offset < results.length){
		var movie = results[offset];
		if(movie && movie.poster_path){
			var title=undefined;
			if(!movie.poster_path)title = movie.title;
			movie.poster_path = (movie.poster_path?config.images.base_url+config.images.poster_sizes[config.images.poster_sizes.length-1]+movie.poster_path:"http://www.directv.com/img/movies.jpg"); 
			var anc = $("<a/>");
			anc.attr("href","https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/"+ movie.id);
			anc.addClass("poster");
			var poster = $("<img/>");
			poster.class="poster";
			poster.attr("src",movie.poster_path);
			poster.addClass("island");
			anc.append(poster);
			if(title)anc.append("<p class='movie_title'>"+title+"</p>");
			cont.append(anc);
			i++;
		}
		offset++;
	}
	if(data.total_pages>disc.page){
		disc.page = disc.page+1;
		disc.discover(addMovies);
	}
}