Feature Request: Rotten Tomatoes ratings

[pzerou]

Might there be an ability to configure and/or include the Rotten Tomatoes rating in Movie queries?

On a related note, there is a RT discord app that worked at one time, but now having issues. Perhaps join powers and integrate into one DMDb super app?

https://github.com/WilliamWelsh/RottenTomatoes

[jaye]

I appreciate the feature request. I intended to add this a while ago but ran into some brick walls.

The current API that DMDb is using does not provide Rottem Tomato data. RT also doesn't have a publicly documented API anymore and I doubt DMDb would be eligible to access their private one. The unofficial API I was planning on using was very unstable at the time but I think it's doing well now.

Though, I'm not sure if it's worth sending another request for just an extra rating. I could, perhaps, create an option to enable RT data in the response.

I'll look into it more and see what I can do.

[pzerou]

Do understand the added cost of separate calls possibly not being worth just the added rating, to an already existing description, etc. Makes sense.

To be fully transparent, the other bot dedicated to RT did since resolve whatever problem it had. So perhaps two independent bots, with their own value, isn't a bad thing.

WilliamWelsh/RottenTomatoes#1