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"listing date" of entry/media on IMDB (not the "release date")

Dear All,

I am looking for way to know when the movie etc appeared on IMDB. If today is say 31-DEC-2024 and IMDB got got a movie clerically passed through its staff at 25-DEC-2024 but the movie's US "release-date" was 10-DEC-2024 then it will appear camouflaged in those obsolete search results from which i have moved on ... Hence it is a NEW movie on IMDB but published on IMDB in PAST DATE as their seems to be no LISTING DATE on IMDB.

Please help!

Looking forward anxiously!

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@mi1400 No sorry, we do not publish this information. In case it helps though, title IDs are issued in numerical sequence so you can always tell which title was issued first between any two titles (it is the one with the lower title ID number). 

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Thank you for reply! if u r referring about id in the URL .. i did try that a while back but it seemed not working ... for example ... 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11468140/ Release date: December 20, 2019

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11468142/ Release date: NONE (though its parent page has Release date: September 22, 2014

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11468144/ Release date: December 13, 2024

So if u see the URLs have sequential/symmetrical ID but dates jumping around by half decade.  

(tt11468141 and tt11468143 URL ids are not unoccupied by IMDB and bring blank pages.)

If i have overlooked something, say there is some conversion involved (maybe base64 etc) please do guide me.

Thank you!

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@mi1400​ 

The titles were probably added at the same time several years ago, and the 2024 release date was added later.