Pathé Movie Skill

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name: pathe-movie description: Lookup Pathé Netherlands movies, posters, descriptions, cinemas, and showtimes via the Pathé JSON APIs. Trigger when the user mentions a Pathé movie/show, wants a poster, asks about a description/rating, or requests showtimes for a specific cinema.

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Pathé Movie Skill

Summary

Always talk to the https://www.pathe.nl/api endpoints with the required browserlike headers (see scripts/pathe_movie.py).

Use the config at config/pathe_movie_config.json to know which cinemas to assume unless the user explicitly names a different cinema.

Rely on scripts/pathe_movie.py for reusable helpers (sanitizing queries, fuzzy matching, best-match selection, and fetching downstream endpoints).

When uncertain, reference references/api.md for payload shape, field names, and expected response structures.

Search flow

1. Clean the user’s movie name by removing filler words (the, a, an, of, in, on, for, and). 2. Call /api/search/full?q=... with the sanitized query. 3. If multiple entries return, run a fuzzy title match (difflib) to pick the closest title. Keep the slug, poster (use poster.lg), and contentRating fields for later requests. 4. If a poster is required, return the poster.lg URL (fall back to poster.md/posterPath when necessary).

Movie detail flow

Given a slug, call /api/show/{slug}?language=nl.

Pull contentRating.description and synopsis (some entries have null; handle gracefully) plus any extras such as genres, directors, actors, and trailers as context.

Poster references now live under posterPath before falling back to the search response’s poster.

Cinema flow

Query /api/show/{slug}/cinemas?language=nl. Filter the returned cinema keys against approvedCinemas in the config unless the user asks for others.

For each cinema we need more detail about, call /api/cinema/{cinema}?language=nl to fetch the official name, citySlug, and services/alerts metadata.

Showtimes

Use /api/show/{slug}/showtimes/{cinema}?language=en to get schedules. Responses are dictionaries keyed by date (YYYY-MM-DD). Each value is an array of showtimes; every entry contains at least a time string (plus screen, optional language, format, etc.).

If the array is empty, return a note that there are currently no scheduled showings.

Testing notes

Ran /api/search/full?q=matrix to confirm the payload includes slug, title, poster, contentRating, and genres.

Called /api/show/the-matrix-41119 to verify contentRating.description, synopsis, and posterPath fields; the synopsis can be null and the posterPath may be missing, so always null-check.

Queried /api/cinema/pathe-zaandam to inspect the returned name, citySlug, and service metadata (there is no shows list, so the cinema object is mostly static info).

Hit /api/show/iron-lung-51335/showtimes/pathe-zaandam to confirm the endpoint returns a list; it was empty for that slug, showing you must handle zero-showtime responses.

Pulled /api/shows?language=nl to understand the bulk structure: dozens of entries with slug, posterPath, contentRating, genres, and next24ShowtimesCount.

Media delivery notes

Always download poster images (and extra stills) locally before sending them through WhatsApp. Save them under /tmp or another temporary location so the gateway can read the file.

When the user explicitly requests a poster via WhatsApp, attach the local path in the message tool media field (e.g., /tmp/bluey_poster.jpg). The WhatsApp docs describe that outbound media accepts local paths, so this ensures the actual image is delivered instead of a URL.

Keep the text part of the message tool call descriptive (e.g., "Here’s the Bluey poster you asked for"), and rely on the downloaded file for the visual.

Follow these instructions whenever the user asks about search, posters, descriptions, cinema availability, or showtimes so the skill always produces accurate Pathé Netherlands results.