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<blockquote data-quote="Big_Chubbz" data-source="post: 1175532" data-attributes="member: 140197">Thanks again for all your help.&nbsp; I double checked, and you are right.&nbsp; 13 out of 35 of the movies in my DB are unfortunately not aliased properly in RT.&nbsp; All 13 report:{&quot;error&quot;:&quot;Could not find a movie with the specified id&quot;}They are major movies (e.g. Chi-Raq), so it is surprising.&nbsp; I appreciate you taking the time to completely solve this issue and figure out precisely what is happening.FWIW, I found this when I went over to RT's API forums to see about fixing those 13 films:<a href="http://developer.rottentomatoes.com/profile/1159779" target="_blank">FlixsterCS</a> – 1 year ago

@jackripper220 - We do provide some IDs in our APIs, like IMDB IDs, to help with matching but ultimately our database of IMDB IDs is not reliable for matching. We recommend matching based on title, director, year, etc. in order to avoid these errors.
Something to consider if these types of errors become more prevalent.&nbsp; It's already affecting over a third of my database, and my collection auto pulls from<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/topvideorentals/limit=10/xml" target="_blank">https://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/topvideorentals/limit=10/xml</a>So not a lot of obscure titles.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Big_Chubbz, post: 1175532, member: 140197"] Thanks again for all your help. I double checked, and you are right. 13 out of 35 of the movies in my DB are unfortunately not aliased properly in RT. All 13 report: {"error":"Could not find a movie with the specified id"} They are major movies (e.g. Chi-Raq), so it is surprising. I appreciate you taking the time to completely solve this issue and figure out precisely what is happening. FWIW, I found this when I went over to RT's API forums to see about fixing those 13 films: [INDENT][URL='http://developer.rottentomatoes.com/profile/1159779']FlixsterCS[/URL] – 1 year ago @jackripper220 - We do provide some IDs in our APIs, like IMDB IDs, to help with matching but ultimately our database of IMDB IDs is not reliable for matching. We recommend matching based on title, director, year, etc. in order to avoid these errors. [/INDENT] Something to consider if these types of errors become more prevalent. It's already affecting over a third of my database, and my collection auto pulls from [URL]https://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/topvideorentals/limit=10/xml[/URL] So not a lot of obscure titles. [/QUOTE]

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