TMDB TypeScript SDK

A robust, type-safe, and user-friendly TypeScript SDK for The Movie Database (TMDB) API. This SDK provides comprehensive access to TMDB's endpoints while following modern TypeScript and JavaScript best practices.

Features

• 🌐 Complete API Coverage: Support for all major TMDB endpoints including movies, TV shows, people, search, discover, and trending
• 📘 Fully Typed: Comprehensive TypeScript declarations for all API requests and responses
• 🔄 Modern JavaScript: ES modules with CommonJS compatibility
• 🌍 Universal: Works in both Node.js and browser environments
• 🔒 Authentication: Support for API key and session-based authentication
• 🖼️ Image Helpers: Easy construction of image URLs with proper sizing
• 📊 Pagination: First-class support for paginated endpoints
• 🚦 Rate Limiting: Built-in handling for API request limits with automatic retries
• 📦 Caching: Optional response caching to improve performance

Installation

npm install tmdb-typescript-sdk

or

yarn add tmdb-typescript-sdk

Quick Start

import { TMDBClient } from 'tmdb-typescript-sdk';

// Initialize the client with your API key
const tmdb = new TMDBClient({
  auth: {
    apiKey: 'your_api_key_here'
  }
});

// Get popular movies
async function getPopularMovies() {
  try {
    const movies = await tmdb.movies.getPopular();
    console.log(movies.results);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error fetching popular movies:', error);
  }
}

// Get movie details
async function getMovieDetails(movieId: number) {
  try {
    const movie = await tmdb.movies.getDetails({ movieId });
    console.log(`${movie.title} (${movie.release_date.split('-')[0]})`);
    console.log(movie.overview);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error fetching movie details:', error);
  }
}

// Search for movies
async function searchMovies(query: string) {
  try {
    const results = await tmdb.search.movies({ query });
    console.log(`Found ${results.total_results} movies matching "${query}"`);
    results.results.forEach(movie => {
      console.log(`${movie.title} (${movie.release_date?.split('-')[0] || 'N/A'})`);
    });
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error searching movies:', error);
  }
}

Documentation

For full documentation and examples, please see the API Reference.

Working with Images

// Get a poster image URL
const posterUrl = tmdb.images.getPosterUrl({
  path: movie.poster_path,
  size: 'w500'
});

// Get a backdrop image URL
const backdropUrl = tmdb.images.getBackdropUrl({
  path: movie.backdrop_path,
  size: 'original'
});

Enabling Cache

// Initialize with caching enabled
const tmdb = new TMDBClient({
  auth: {
    apiKey: 'your_api_key_here'
  },
  cache: {
    enabled: true,
    maxSize: 100, // Maximum cache entries
    ttl: 300000   // Cache TTL in milliseconds (5 minutes)
  }
});

Error Handling

try {
  const movie = await tmdb.movies.getDetails({ movieId: 123 });
  // Process movie data
} catch (error) {
  if (error instanceof HttpError) {
    console.error(`HTTP Error ${error.status}: ${error.message}`);
  } else if (error instanceof RateLimitError) {
    console.error(`Rate limit exceeded. Retry after ${error.retryAfter}ms`);
  } else {
    console.error('Unexpected error:', error);
  }
}

Examples

See the examples directory for more usage examples.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.