title: Basic use of an API (The Rotten Tomatoes API)
body: <p>I'm trying to achieve this:</p>
  
  <p><strong><em>Use the Rotten Tomatoes API to return a list of movie's by querying a list of movie IDs.</em></strong></p>
  
  <p>Now, I've not used an API before, so I'm finding my around the concepts. I've chosen to go with Javascript to interact with the data, using this example as the basis of my testing:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var apikey = "myapikey";
  var baseUrl = "http://api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0";
  
  // construct the uri with our apikey
  var moviesSearchUrl = baseUrl + '/movies.json?apikey=' + apikey;
  var query = "Gone with the Wind";
  
  $(document).ready(function() {
  
    // send off the query
    $.ajax({
      url: moviesSearchUrl + '&amp;q=' + encodeURI(query),
      dataType: "jsonp",
      success: searchCallback
    });
  });
  
  // callback for when we get back the results
  function searchCallback(data) {
   $(document.body).append('Found ' + data.total + ' results for ' + query);
   var movies = data.movies;
   $.each(movies, function(index, movie) {
     $(document.body).append('&lt;h1&gt;' + movie.title + '&lt;/h1&gt;');
     $(document.body).append('&lt;img src="' + movie.posters.thumbnail + '" /&gt;');
   });
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>That is using a search as the way to return a list of movies, but I already have a pre-defined list of movies I'd like to return.</p>
  
  <p>The API uses this URL for returning a specific movie using an ID</p>
  
  <pre><code>api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0/movies/[MOVIE_ID_HERE].json?apikey=ny97sdcpqetasj8a4v2na8va
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My question is, how to create a function that will use those URL parameters to return, firstly, a movie with a specific ID, then go further to return a list of movies from a given set of IDs.</p>
  
  <p>I think my question is more about the necessary JS to use with that URL, rather than too specific to the Rotten Tomatoes API itself.</p>