/movies/updates endpoint returns empty results even for broad date ranges
Is this just me or are others experiencing the same issue?
Summary
The Trakt API endpoint /movies/updates/{start_date} appears to return an empty array even when using very wide or recent date ranges.
Description
Example request:
Tested with different data ranges
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "trakt-api-version: 2" \
-H "trakt-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://api.trakt.tv/movies/updates/2025-10-01 "Returned body:
Returned headers:
{
"Date": "Tue, 28 Oct 2025 06:50:30 GMT",
"Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
"Transfer-Encoding": "chunked",
"Connection": "keep-alive",
"Server": "cloudflare",
"x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN",
"x-xss-protection": "0",
"x-content-type-options": "nosniff",
"x-download-options": "noopen",
"x-permitted-cross-domain-policies": "none",
"referrer-policy": "strict-origin-when-cross-origin",
"x-pagination-page": "1",
"x-pagination-limit": "1000",
"expires": "Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:50:30 GMT",
"x-start-date": "2025-10-25T00:00:00Z",
"x-pagination-page-count": "0",
"x-pagination-item-count": "0",
"Cache-Control": "public, max-age=28800",
"vary": "Accept-Encoding",
"Content-Encoding": "gzip",
"x-ratelimit": "{\"name\":\"AUTHED_API_GET_LIMIT\",\"period\":300,\"limit\":1000,\"remaining\":999,\"until\":\"2025-10-28T06:55:00Z\"}",
"etag": "W/\"52f258d2cb22a95b98f7a7d37e8290e0\"",
"x-request-id": "fed0e1e5-18cb-4663-8af3-3a845a1a1dfb",
"x-runtime": "0.189991",
"CF-Cache-Status": "MISS",
"CF-RAY": "99587fd439551b47-VNO",
"alt-svc": "h3=\":443\"; ma=86400"
}Returned status:
Expected behavior
The endpoint should return a list of movie IDs (and updated_at timestamps) that were updated since the specified date.
Actual behavior
An empty array [] is returned, even for wide or recent date ranges.
Shows endpoint works
https://api.trakt.tv/shows/updates/2025-10-01
P.S. And does not even require an api-key
/movies/updatesendpoint returns empty results even for broad date rangesIs this just me or are others experiencing the same issue?
Summary
The Trakt API endpoint
/movies/updates/{start_date}appears to return an empty array even when using very wide or recent date ranges.Description
Example request:
Tested with different data ranges
Returned body:
Returned headers:
{ "Date": "Tue, 28 Oct 2025 06:50:30 GMT", "Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8", "Transfer-Encoding": "chunked", "Connection": "keep-alive", "Server": "cloudflare", "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN", "x-xss-protection": "0", "x-content-type-options": "nosniff", "x-download-options": "noopen", "x-permitted-cross-domain-policies": "none", "referrer-policy": "strict-origin-when-cross-origin", "x-pagination-page": "1", "x-pagination-limit": "1000", "expires": "Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:50:30 GMT", "x-start-date": "2025-10-25T00:00:00Z", "x-pagination-page-count": "0", "x-pagination-item-count": "0", "Cache-Control": "public, max-age=28800", "vary": "Accept-Encoding", "Content-Encoding": "gzip", "x-ratelimit": "{\"name\":\"AUTHED_API_GET_LIMIT\",\"period\":300,\"limit\":1000,\"remaining\":999,\"until\":\"2025-10-28T06:55:00Z\"}", "etag": "W/\"52f258d2cb22a95b98f7a7d37e8290e0\"", "x-request-id": "fed0e1e5-18cb-4663-8af3-3a845a1a1dfb", "x-runtime": "0.189991", "CF-Cache-Status": "MISS", "CF-RAY": "99587fd439551b47-VNO", "alt-svc": "h3=\":443\"; ma=86400" }Returned status:
Expected behavior
The endpoint should return a list of movie IDs (and
updated_attimestamps) that were updated since the specified date.Actual behavior
An empty array
[]is returned, even for wide or recent date ranges.Shows endpoint works
https://api.trakt.tv/shows/updates/2025-10-01
P.S. And does not even require an api-key