Create Session (from v4 Token)
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/session/convert/4 \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"access_token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIzMjZkYmU5NGY0NGY0NzMyOWQ1M2VlOGIwYzhhNjMxYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczNTkzNzY4Ni44OTY3NTYsImp0aSI6IjY3Nzg0Y2FkY2Y2OWJjMWE4NTRkNDFhYSIsInN1YiI6IjY3NzMxOTU4Y2ZlNjI2NDRkZjEzNDE4MSIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCIsImFwaV93cml0ZSJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoyfQ.Ow2wYAsbNQu4PZrrqqw47qae-DhU6Trz_88xzUuvgzY"
}
'import requests
url = "https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/session/convert/4"
payload = { "access_token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIzMjZkYmU5NGY0NGY0NzMyOWQ1M2VlOGIwYzhhNjMxYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczNTkzNzY4Ni44OTY3NTYsImp0aSI6IjY3Nzg0Y2FkY2Y2OWJjMWE4NTRkNDFhYSIsInN1YiI6IjY3NzMxOTU4Y2ZlNjI2NDRkZjEzNDE4MSIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCIsImFwaV93cml0ZSJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoyfQ.Ow2wYAsbNQu4PZrrqqw47qae-DhU6Trz_88xzUuvgzY" }
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
access_token: 'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIzMjZkYmU5NGY0NGY0NzMyOWQ1M2VlOGIwYzhhNjMxYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczNTkzNzY4Ni44OTY3NTYsImp0aSI6IjY3Nzg0Y2FkY2Y2OWJjMWE4NTRkNDFhYSIsInN1YiI6IjY3NzMxOTU4Y2ZlNjI2NDRkZjEzNDE4MSIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCIsImFwaV93cml0ZSJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoyfQ.Ow2wYAsbNQu4PZrrqqw47qae-DhU6Trz_88xzUuvgzY'
})
};
fetch('https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/session/convert/4', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/session/convert/4",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'access_token' => 'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIzMjZkYmU5NGY0NGY0NzMyOWQ1M2VlOGIwYzhhNjMxYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczNTkzNzY4Ni44OTY3NTYsImp0aSI6IjY3Nzg0Y2FkY2Y2OWJjMWE4NTRkNDFhYSIsInN1YiI6IjY3NzMxOTU4Y2ZlNjI2NDRkZjEzNDE4MSIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCIsImFwaV93cml0ZSJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoyfQ.Ow2wYAsbNQu4PZrrqqw47qae-DhU6Trz_88xzUuvgzY'
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/session/convert/4"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"access_token\": \"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIzMjZkYmU5NGY0NGY0NzMyOWQ1M2VlOGIwYzhhNjMxYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczNTkzNzY4Ni44OTY3NTYsImp0aSI6IjY3Nzg0Y2FkY2Y2OWJjMWE4NTRkNDFhYSIsInN1YiI6IjY3NzMxOTU4Y2ZlNjI2NDRkZjEzNDE4MSIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCIsImFwaV93cml0ZSJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoyfQ.Ow2wYAsbNQu4PZrrqqw47qae-DhU6Trz_88xzUuvgzY\"\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/session/convert/4")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"access_token\": \"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIzMjZkYmU5NGY0NGY0NzMyOWQ1M2VlOGIwYzhhNjMxYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczNTkzNzY4Ni44OTY3NTYsImp0aSI6IjY3Nzg0Y2FkY2Y2OWJjMWE4NTRkNDFhYSIsInN1YiI6IjY3NzMxOTU4Y2ZlNjI2NDRkZjEzNDE4MSIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCIsImFwaV93cml0ZSJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoyfQ.Ow2wYAsbNQu4PZrrqqw47qae-DhU6Trz_88xzUuvgzY\"\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/session/convert/4")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"access_token\": \"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIzMjZkYmU5NGY0NGY0NzMyOWQ1M2VlOGIwYzhhNjMxYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczNTkzNzY4Ni44OTY3NTYsImp0aSI6IjY3Nzg0Y2FkY2Y2OWJjMWE4NTRkNDFhYSIsInN1YiI6IjY3NzMxOTU4Y2ZlNjI2NDRkZjEzNDE4MSIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCIsImFwaV93cml0ZSJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoyfQ.Ow2wYAsbNQu4PZrrqqw47qae-DhU6Trz_88xzUuvgzY\"\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"session_id": "863358a316b848fb93a532cc74eb6b7b296258a9",
"success": true
}Authentication
Create Session (from v4 Token)
Use this method to create a v3 session ID if you already have a valid v4 access token. The v4 token needs to be authenticated by the user. Your standard “read token” will not validate to create a session ID.
This would replace step 3 from the How do I generate a session id? guide.
POST
/
3
/
authentication
/
session
/
convert
/
4
Create Session (from v4 Token)
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/session/convert/4 \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"access_token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIzMjZkYmU5NGY0NGY0NzMyOWQ1M2VlOGIwYzhhNjMxYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczNTkzNzY4Ni44OTY3NTYsImp0aSI6IjY3Nzg0Y2FkY2Y2OWJjMWE4NTRkNDFhYSIsInN1YiI6IjY3NzMxOTU4Y2ZlNjI2NDRkZjEzNDE4MSIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCIsImFwaV93cml0ZSJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoyfQ.Ow2wYAsbNQu4PZrrqqw47qae-DhU6Trz_88xzUuvgzY"
}
'import requests
url = "https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/session/convert/4"
payload = { "access_token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIzMjZkYmU5NGY0NGY0NzMyOWQ1M2VlOGIwYzhhNjMxYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczNTkzNzY4Ni44OTY3NTYsImp0aSI6IjY3Nzg0Y2FkY2Y2OWJjMWE4NTRkNDFhYSIsInN1YiI6IjY3NzMxOTU4Y2ZlNjI2NDRkZjEzNDE4MSIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCIsImFwaV93cml0ZSJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoyfQ.Ow2wYAsbNQu4PZrrqqw47qae-DhU6Trz_88xzUuvgzY" }
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
access_token: 'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIzMjZkYmU5NGY0NGY0NzMyOWQ1M2VlOGIwYzhhNjMxYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczNTkzNzY4Ni44OTY3NTYsImp0aSI6IjY3Nzg0Y2FkY2Y2OWJjMWE4NTRkNDFhYSIsInN1YiI6IjY3NzMxOTU4Y2ZlNjI2NDRkZjEzNDE4MSIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCIsImFwaV93cml0ZSJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoyfQ.Ow2wYAsbNQu4PZrrqqw47qae-DhU6Trz_88xzUuvgzY'
})
};
fetch('https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/session/convert/4', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/session/convert/4",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'access_token' => 'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIzMjZkYmU5NGY0NGY0NzMyOWQ1M2VlOGIwYzhhNjMxYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczNTkzNzY4Ni44OTY3NTYsImp0aSI6IjY3Nzg0Y2FkY2Y2OWJjMWE4NTRkNDFhYSIsInN1YiI6IjY3NzMxOTU4Y2ZlNjI2NDRkZjEzNDE4MSIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCIsImFwaV93cml0ZSJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoyfQ.Ow2wYAsbNQu4PZrrqqw47qae-DhU6Trz_88xzUuvgzY'
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/session/convert/4"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"access_token\": \"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIzMjZkYmU5NGY0NGY0NzMyOWQ1M2VlOGIwYzhhNjMxYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczNTkzNzY4Ni44OTY3NTYsImp0aSI6IjY3Nzg0Y2FkY2Y2OWJjMWE4NTRkNDFhYSIsInN1YiI6IjY3NzMxOTU4Y2ZlNjI2NDRkZjEzNDE4MSIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCIsImFwaV93cml0ZSJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoyfQ.Ow2wYAsbNQu4PZrrqqw47qae-DhU6Trz_88xzUuvgzY\"\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/session/convert/4")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"access_token\": \"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIzMjZkYmU5NGY0NGY0NzMyOWQ1M2VlOGIwYzhhNjMxYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczNTkzNzY4Ni44OTY3NTYsImp0aSI6IjY3Nzg0Y2FkY2Y2OWJjMWE4NTRkNDFhYSIsInN1YiI6IjY3NzMxOTU4Y2ZlNjI2NDRkZjEzNDE4MSIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCIsImFwaV93cml0ZSJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoyfQ.Ow2wYAsbNQu4PZrrqqw47qae-DhU6Trz_88xzUuvgzY\"\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/session/convert/4")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"access_token\": \"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIzMjZkYmU5NGY0NGY0NzMyOWQ1M2VlOGIwYzhhNjMxYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczNTkzNzY4Ni44OTY3NTYsImp0aSI6IjY3Nzg0Y2FkY2Y2OWJjMWE4NTRkNDFhYSIsInN1YiI6IjY3NzMxOTU4Y2ZlNjI2NDRkZjEzNDE4MSIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCIsImFwaV93cml0ZSJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoyfQ.Ow2wYAsbNQu4PZrrqqw47qae-DhU6Trz_88xzUuvgzY\"\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"session_id": "863358a316b848fb93a532cc74eb6b7b296258a9",
"success": true
}Body
application/json
Example:
"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIzMjZkYmU5NGY0NGY0NzMyOWQ1M2VlOGIwYzhhNjMxYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczNTkzNzY4Ni44OTY3NTYsImp0aSI6IjY3Nzg0Y2FkY2Y2OWJjMWE4NTRkNDFhYSIsInN1YiI6IjY3NzMxOTU4Y2ZlNjI2NDRkZjEzNDE4MSIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCIsImFwaV93cml0ZSJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoyfQ.Ow2wYAsbNQu4PZrrqqw47qae-DhU6Trz_88xzUuvgzY"