I have a question about the example provided here:
http://api.comicvine.com/documentation/#list_resources
First, the data returned for gender is 1 or 2 for me, not M, F, or Other as the docs suggest.
Second, the filters don't seem to do anything for me either. `fields_list` works as advertised but changing anything else doesn't seem to affect the results.
Am I misunderstanding the example? Can I not find all volumes named 'Batman' by using:
http://api.comicvine.com/volumes/?api_key=<key>&field_list=name&name=Batman
If I'm supposed to use search that's fine, but it seems limiting not being able to filter by particular fields so I'm hoping I'm just missing something.
Thanks for any insight.
A little confused with the samples in the docs
I had this issue back when Giant Bomb launched their API. They're the exact same examples, and what I said there still applies here too.
The problem is that the example used does not reflect what the API is actually capable of, or what returned data actually looks like. As it stands you cannot actually use those filters. If you want to do that, you'll have to build your own filters into the program. Andy (Lord Sedrik) said they'd get some filters up, and requested some suggestions for possible filters, but it's been three months and it still hasn't happened. :(
I see something similar when trying to get a list of issues. I know that there's a Silver Surfer volume with ID 3857, but this URL:
http://api.comicvine.com/issues/?api_key=...volume=3857
... gets me a list of issues in all sorts of volumes. Perhaps filtering doesn't work, which is fine, but how am I supposed to return a list of issues for a given title?
Yea it seems like using search for everything is pretty inefficient for simple things like filtering on a given property. IMO it should be easy and straightforward to look for "invincible #1" in one api call for example.
" I see something similar when trying to get a list of issues. I know that there's a Silver Surfer volume with ID 3857, but this URL:
http://api.comicvine.com/issues/?api_key=...volume=3857... gets me a list of issues in all sorts of volumes. Perhaps filtering doesn't work, which is fine, but how am I supposed to return a list of issues for a given title? "
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