The new https://www.tvmaze.com/api#person-guestcast-credits endpoint allows to embed the character and episode object, but a episode object is pretty useless to a human reader without at least the show name.
I know i can request the show per episode, but that is a lot of additional requests to get useful episode info.
Would i be possible to embed the show object or at least minimal info like the show name to show the user the episode in context of show?
No, sorry. I understand the desire for this, but "recursive embedding" like this isn't going to be possible.
@david wrote:
No, sorry. I understand the desire for this, but "recursive embedding" like this isn't going to be possible.
Is there any way that records for individual episodes could at least be given a property of ShowName? I'm trying to use the API to build a page where you can click on an actor and then display all of their credits. Main credits are fine, but since guest credits only tell you the episode and character name...yeah, you have to do separate calls for each one to get the show information, and this is causing the calls to fail. I understand that recursive embedding isn't an option (although I think, if possible, the 'show' record should be put at the same level as 'episode' and 'character' which seemingly would allow embedding), so even just listing the name of the show as a value within the 'episode' record would be very helpful
I've thought about it and think that providing a name property (when applicable) is fair enough.
You'll see it in e.g. https://api.tvmaze.com/people/1/guestcastcredits or https://api.tvmaze.com/people/1/guestcastcredits?embed=episode under links.episode.name or _links.show.name.
