List of popular shows

Unfortunately we do not. The only way you can find our most popular shows is to use those filters for most popular in the show section.

Are there any plans of adding a sorting functionality to the API?

I'm not sure. In general it's not our intention to make advanced sorting/filtering functions available in the API.

If you want this, you could always download the complete list of shows (see http://www.tvmaze.com/api Show Index) and sort them by the "weight" property yourself.

I'm not going to say that it's as efficient as possible, but I've created some functions to do the sorting for you - for the 10 results that you receive; the results themselves aren't different - I will most likely not continue to work on it.

Note: This would allow you to sort by anything - i.e if you want you can sort by Network name (show.network.name), or premier date (show.premiered), etc.

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You would use it like this:

sorted = sortArray(data, "show.weight", "desc");

As an example: searching for "Outside", the popular 2016 show "Outsiders" is listed as 4th, whereas its weight makes it 1st

Really love your service. I recognize this likely won't happen but it would be great to have this API endpoint. You're already doing it for the http://www.tvmaze.com/shows page; perhaps you can reuse the code for the API.

Something like: http://api.tvmaze.com/shows/popular?page=1

Or: http://api.tvmaze.com/shows?sortby=popularity&sortby_direction=desc&page=1

I appreciate that I can download your entire paginated index, however it's unfortunate to do something so resource intensive for such a simple query. Thanks again for TVmaze and having an API in the first place!

Thanks for the warm feedback :)

Our vision currently still doesn't include adding calls like these. Obviously it wouldn't be very hard to add, but serving a single static list is immensely cheaper on our resources than offering sorting or filters. Since we get many tens of millions of API calls a day we have to be conservative here. Perhaps these could be part of a paid/donation part of the API in the future or something!