Store API data
I am using an API the tmdb api for movies to be specific. I wish to store the api data in to a database so I have to make less api queries, however I am not sure if there is legal restrictions and yes this is for a commercial app.
If I can't store the data in the database would that mean i would have to curate all the movie information my self then store in a database?
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I have a feeling you should be paying, it's their terms, IDK... not reading everything and not a legal consult...
There isn't a generic how API should be used you should see the specific terms they claim..
Generally for storing the data, you either reconstruct the data module (might just find full DB offers) or cache the call results with something like Redis which is simple
If key existent, return key if not do call and store keyIt is surely tough to build a advanced shopify clone from scratch. In my opinion you ought to focus on a gap marketplace or sell a Bape clothing to shopify like volkan said.
How can we use the API data for single page? I want to test it for the ecommerce store, you can see here https://malekgreenhouse.ir/
Wouldn't a simple expiring cache do the trick? They don't rate limit https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/getting-started/request-rate-limiting so the only reason to try to have the data yourself is if you are doing complex queries of some sort across movies.
I do plan only allowing users to favourite movies and also the Web app will be able to recommend movies to users. So i think storing in a dB might be best. What do you think?
Depends - are the recommendations only based on user's favourites? If so you will of course already have favourite data in your database. Then this just becomes a performance problem and the cache would solve that. Otherwise some aspect of the data you are using might change over time and you don't want to be maintaining tmdb yourself.
I'm afraid without knowing what you are doing I can't really advise more. To complicate things even more even if you need a cache you don't necessarily need a centralized one. Uclusion caches all user data in IndexedDB.