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Account ID is a unique identifier for an account on TMDB. It is required to add movies to favorites, wachlist, and perform other actions using the API.

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How to get an Account ID

There are two ways to get an Account ID. You can either get an Account ID directly as an application, or on behalf of a TMDB user in your app.

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As an application

Get your application’s api_key and access_token, then send a GET request to Get account details to retrieve your Account ID from the response object. Below is an example:
Example
curl --request GET \
     --url 'https://api.themoviedb.org/3/account?api_key=79191836ddaa0da3df76a5ffef6f07ad6ab0c64' \
     --header 'Authorization: Bearer <your-access-token e.g eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIxMDJlNzYzODBkM2NiZGVmMmY2NjQzNzg3ZjkyMzZmYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczMzE3MDMzNi4yNDYsInN1YiI6IjY3NGUxNGEwMGU4M2U0YmUyNTJjZWQyZiIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoxfQ.ZT61q1NoOlzVMBVMZJQ2sSZZQ7P7KZmtr8Vw19C0Ies>'

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On behalf of a TMDB user

Follow the steps below to retrieve the Account ID for a TMDB user within your app:
1

Generate a `session_id`

Generate a unique session_id for the user. See how to generate a session_id here
2

Get account details (including the ID)

Send a GET request to the Get account details endpoint and add the session_id as a query parameter. Here is an example below:
Example
curl --request GET \
     --url 'https://api.themoviedb.org/3/account?session_id=79191836ddaa0da3df76a5ffef6f07ad6ab0c641' \
     --header 'Authorization: Bearer <your-access-token e.g eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIxMDJlNzYzODBkM2NiZGVmMmY2NjQzNzg3ZjkyMzZmYiIsIm5iZiI6MTczMzE3MDMzNi4yNDYsInN1YiI6IjY3NGUxNGEwMGU4M2U0YmUyNTJjZWQyZiIsInNjb3BlcyI6WyJhcGlfcmVhZCJdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoxfQ.ZT61q1NoOlzVMBVMZJQ2sSZZQ7P7KZmtr8Vw19C0Ies>'
The Account ID will be included in the response object as id. Below is an example:
Example response
{
     "avatar": {
          "gravatar": {
               "hash": "f35e00805bf2085dcc202ea42e3f4ba4"
          },
          "tmdb": {
               "avatar_path": "/xy44UvpbTgzs9kWmp4C3fEaCl5h.png"
          }
     },
     "id": 21666081
     "include_adult": false
     "iso_3166_1": "NG"
     "iso_639_1": "en"
     "name": "John David"
     "username": "Javid"
}