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#1  Edited By wikid24

 Hi,
 
To cut to the chase, I need to be able to easily query the system by sending these values:
volume name (verbatim from Comic Vine) & volume start year (verbatim from Comic Vine)<--two unique identifiers for a comic book series
 
Based on this query, I am expecting a list of volume id

'volume id' is really important, it would make it sooooo much easier to pull information and get data regarding the specific series that we are pointing to!

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#2  Edited By wikid24

Hi,
 
I need a simple way of retrieving a issue information based on 'volume ID' and 'issue number':
I would expect that it would be as simple as passing those those two values would return the 'issue' details.
 
Please let me know if there is an easy way to do this and if it is possible.
 
Thanks and regards,
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#3  Edited By wikid24

Hi,
 
To cut to the chase, I need an additional element added to the 'volume' query: "issue number". If it can be added HERE it would save us developers so much time and code to prevent us scraping individual issues to retrieve this!
 
example:
 http://api.comicvine.com/volume/11499/?api_key=*removed*

 <issues>
<issue>
<api_detail_url>http://api.comicvine.com/issue/236323/</api_detail_url>
<id>236323</id>
 <issue_number>610.00</issue_number> <--- ADD ISSUE NUMBER HERE!
<name>No Escape Conclusion</name>
</issue>
</issues>

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#4  Edited By wikid24

Hi,
 
To cut to the chase, I need to be able to easily query the system by sending these values:
volume name (verbatim from Comic Vine) & volume start year (verbatim from Comic Vine)<--two unique identifiers for a comic book series
 
Based on this query, I am expecting a list of volume and issue information:
- volume id
- issue list:
         -issue name
         -issue number
         -issue ID
 
'volume id' is really important, 'issue list' not so important, because  this can be retrieved from a second query.

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#5  Edited By wikid24

agreed, especially since, as developers who RELY on active development to work on our own respective projects, if no work is done to resolve these issue, we can't work on our own and are stopped dead in our tracks, effectively killing the whole reason for having an API in the first place. 
 
XBMC was able to work around this with their own scrapers, they quite literally took websites like the IMDB and TVDB.org and just  parsed every single page's html to get the metadata that they needed, even though it may have been quite a big server hit for them... Perhaps this is what we'll have to do to the ComicVine website instead??

I'll see if I can get a moderator to respond to this

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#6  Edited By wikid24

"First_Issue" and "Last_Issue"  are not returning any result. 
 
For example, if looking at Captain America Vol. 2005
Expected:
<last_issue>612</last_issue>
 
Actual:
<last_issue />
 

http://api.comicvine.com/volumes/?api_key=*removed*&offset=1000&field_list=name,last_issue,first_issue,count_of_issues,date_last_updated