TMDB Throttling

[adminExitium 355]

I am just looking for info about how the throttle interval for the TMDB API is calculated, when the provider is enabled & used.

Specifically, for lines like:

2024-06-19 19:07:30.939 Debug TheMovieDb: Throttling Tmdb by 152 ms

From what I can figure out from the TMDB API Docs, they don't have any kind of rate limiting or throttling mechanism on the server side, so this seems like something implemented on the Emby side?

API Docs: https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/rate-limiting

The TMDB rate limiting was removed in 2019: https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/5df7d28326dac100145530f2

Based on some rough calculations (estimating the avg. ffprobe time at ~125 ms per file), it looks like Emby is still sticking to the original 40 requests per 10 second limit whereas the current recommendation is 50 requests per second, which is almost a 10x difference.

Edited June 19, 2024 by adminExitium

[Luke 42078]

Hi, yes I guess it is, and that can probably be adjusted. But in terms of overall time with your library scan it's unlikely to matter unless you enable MovieDb for episodes.

[adminExitium 355]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

enable MovieDb for episodes.

I generally do, because I thought that was required to use the images from TMDB, which are generally higher quality than those from TVDB.

Edited June 19, 2024 by adminExitium

[adminExitium 355]

Thanks for the fast turnaround. Scan is going a lot faster now, even for Movies, since I only use TMDB there.