Get an IMDb chart

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List an IMDb chart such as the Top 250 movies or TV shows or the most popular movies or TV shows, with rank, year, rating, votes, runtime, certificate, genres and poster.

GET/v1/imdb/chartx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

chartenumrequiredquery

top-movies (IMDb Top 250 movies), top-tv (Top 250 TV shows), popular-movies (most popular movies), popular-tv (most popular TV shows), top-english-movies or lowest-rated-movies.

one of: top-movies, top-tv, popular-movies, popular-tv, top-english-movies, lowest-rated-movies

Exampletop-tv

limitstringquery

Entries per page, 1 to 250 (default 50).

Example10

cursorstringquery

nextCursor from the previous page of the same chart.

max 1024 chars

Response fields

successboolean

True when usable data is returned; inspect status and coverage.

statusenum

success or partial for usable data; failed or challenged for a failure.

one of: success, partial

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

sourceUrlstring

Public imdb.com page the data describes.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

Returned-page coverage and mapping warnings.

coverage.sourcestring

IMDb's public web API.

coverage.completeboolean

Whether every supported field was mapped without a reported omission.

coverage.warningsenum[]

Named warnings: source_field_error (IMDb could not supply a field, which is null), invalid_item (an entry without an ID or name was skipped), record_limit (a list was capped) or total_unavailable (no total count).

Retrieval attempt, source byte and timing measurements.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Upstream request attempts, including any retry.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Decoded source bytes read during this request.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Elapsed operation time in milliseconds.

≥ 0

chartenum

top-movies (IMDb Top 250 movies), top-tv (Top 250 TV shows), popular-movies (most popular movies), popular-tv (most popular TV shows), top-english-movies or lowest-rated-movies.

one of: top-movies, top-tv, popular-movies, popular-tv, top-english-movies, lowest-rated-movies

totalintegernullable

Entries in the whole chart, or null.

≥ 0

Chart entries in rank order.

up to 250 items

items.rankinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

items.idstring

Always included.

items.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

items.titlestring

Always included.

items.originalTitlestringnullable

Always included.

items.type.idstring

Always included.

items.type.textstring

Always included.

items.yearintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

items.endYearintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

items.ratingnumbernullable

Always included.

0 – 10

items.voteCountintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

items.runtimeSecondsintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

items.certificatestringnullable

Always included.

items.genresstring[]

Always included.

up to 20 items

items.imageUrlstringnullable

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

nextCursorstringnullable

Cursor for the next page, or null on the last page.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
200	`partial`	Usable data with named field-error, invalid-item, record-limit or total warnings.
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, malformed or unsupported parameters, or a cursor IMDb rejected.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid worker API key.
404	`not_found`	The requested IMDb title or person was not found.
422	`unsupported_page`	The IMDb response structure or identity could not be mapped.
502	`upstream_challenged`	IMDb challenged retrieval.
502	`upstream_rate_limited`	IMDb rate-limited retrieval.
502	`upstream_error`	Source retrieval did not complete.
502	`response_too_large`	Decoded source bytes exceeded the request limit.
502	`unsafe_redirect`	IMDb answered with a redirect, which is never followed.
502	`request_limit`	The upstream request budget was exhausted.
503	`busy`	Worker request or queue capacity was exceeded.
504	`timeout`	The operation deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/imdb/chart?chart=top-tv&limit=10" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/imdb/chart?chart=top-tv&limit=10",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/imdb/chart?chart=top-tv&limit=10",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`IMDb request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/imdb/chart",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "chart": "top-tv",
        "limit": "10"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/imdb/chart?chart=top-tv&limit=10", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/imdb/chart?chart=top-tv&limit=10"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.imdb.com/chart/toptv/",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 2369,
    "durationMs": 600
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "id": "tt0903747",
      "url": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/",
      "title": "Breaking Bad",
      "originalTitle": "Breaking Bad",
      "type": {
        "id": "tvSeries",
        "text": "TV Series"
      },
      "year": 2008,
      "endYear": 2013,
      "rating": 9.5,
      "voteCount": 2704294,
      "runtimeSeconds": 2880,
      "certificate": "TV-MA",
      "genres": [
        "Crime",
        "Drama",
        "Thriller"
      ],
      "imageUrl": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMzU5ZGYzNmQtMTdhYy00OGRiLTg0NmQtYjVjNzliZTg1ZGE4XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg"
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "id": "tt5491994",
      "url": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5491994/",
      "title": "Planet Earth II",
      "originalTitle": "Planet Earth II",
      "type": {
        "id": "tvMiniSeries",
        "text": "TV Mini Series"
      },
      "year": 2016,
      "endYear": 2016,
      "rating": 9.4,
      "voteCount": 178072,
      "runtimeSeconds": 3000,
      "certificate": "TV-G",
      "genres": [
        "Documentary",
        "Family"
      ],
      "imageUrl": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMzY4NDBkMWYtYzdkYy00YzBjLWJmODctMWM4YjYzZTdjNWE5XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "chart": "top-tv",
  "total": 250,
  "nextCursor": "eyJlc1Rva2VuIjpbIjMiXSwiZmlsdGVyIjoie1wiY2hhcnRcIjp7XCJjaGFydFR5cGVcIjpcIlRPUF9SQVRFRF9UVl9TSE9XU1wifSxcImxhbmd1YWdlXCI6XCJlbi1VU1wiLFwicmVzdWx0SW5kZXhcIjoyfSIsInNpZyI6IjI5MDVkZDhhMWNiNzliYjU4OGY4ZmQzNWM5ZTA4NjFiNTgwMjExYzgwNWEzNjQxYTUyMDNlOWI1NDY4MTNlYjAifQ=="
}

Missing, duplicate, malformed or unsupported parameters, or a cursor IMDb rejected.

{
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}