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c#itunesitunes-search-api
moxmlb
moxmlb

Reputation: 1330

iTunes Search API get 0 results at c# programm but 1 result at Chrome browser

I created a C# programm which searches movie details with the title of the movie. I create the link:

        string link = "https://itunes.apple.com/search?";

        link += "term=";

        string cTitle = Titel.Replace(" ", "+");
        link += cTitle;

        link += "&country=DE";
        link += "&media=movie";
        link += "&entity=movie";
        link += "&attribute=movieTerm";
        link += "&limit=1";

with the movie title "Bus 657" that would be the following link:

https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=Bus+657&country=DE&media=movie&entity=movie&attribute=movieTerm&limit=1

If I open that link I get a txt file with the result I need. But if I get that in c# with the following code:

WebClient client = new WebClient();
var json = client.DownloadString(link);
Thread.Sleep(3100);

I get 0 results. Can someone help me to fix that?

I have a lot movie titles which title are named by the original iTunes title of the store at germany.

Thx :)

Upvotes: -1

Views: 210

Answers (2)

ザヘド
ザヘド

Reputation: 674

Add the User Agent to the request header and try.

WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.Headers.Add("user-agent","Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36");
var json = client.DownloadString(link);

I received "resultCount":1

Upvotes: 1

user47589
user47589

Reputation:

Your link is wrong.

You have:

                                        BZZZZT - should be %20
                                        ↓
https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=Bus+657&country=DE&media=movie&entity=movie&attribute=movieTerm&limit=1

Your movie title is "Bus 657". That space should be encoded as %20, not a +. Your link should be:

https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=Bus%20657&country=DE&media=movie&entity=movie&attribute=movieTerm&limit=1

With the corrected link, you get results. You should be using HttpServerUtility.UrlEncode or some other function to properly URL encode your URL. Or build your URL using the UriBuilder class.

Upvotes: 0

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