Guest sessions are a second type of user authentication.
They are temporary, limited access session that allows users to interact with TMDB API without needing to create an account. They are only limited to rating a movie, TV show and TV episode.

  • Guest sessions should be secure privately as hold as a session within your application to a single token.
  • Guest sessions are only avaliable for 24 hours

Creating a Guest session

You can create a guest session id with this request:

Example for CReating Guest sesssion
   curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/guest_session/new \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}'