tmdbR: Modern 'R' Client for 'The Movie Database' API

A modern, tested client for version 3 of 'The Movie Database' ('TMDB') API. It modernises the interface originally provided by the legacy 'TMDb' package by Capozio (2020) <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=TMDb> while adding secure web requests, bearer-token authentication, structured errors, retries, safe query encoding, and automatic pagination.

Version: 0.2.2
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: httr2 (≥ 1.0.0), jsonlite (≥ 1.8.0)
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-09-01
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.tmdbR (may not be active yet)
Author: Gordon Kuzet [aut, cre, cph], Andrea Capozio [ctb, cph] (Author of the legacy TMDb 1.1 package on which the compatibility interface is based)
Maintainer: Gordon Kuzet <gordon at kuzet.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/vader75/tmdbR/issues
License: Artistic-2.0
Copyright: Original 'TMDb' 1.1 components copyright Andrea Capozio. 'tmdbR' modifications copyright Gordon Kuzet.
URL: https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/getting-started, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=TMDb, https://github.com/vader75/tmdbR
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: tmdbR citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: tmdbR results

Documentation:

Reference manual: tmdbR.html , tmdbR.pdf
Vignettes: Getting started with tmdbR (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: tmdbR_0.2.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: tmdbR_0.2.2.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): tmdbR_0.2.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): tmdbR_0.2.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): tmdbR_0.2.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): tmdbR_0.2.2.tgz

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