List IMDb user reviews

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List user reviews for a title with reviewer, rating, headline, text, spoiler flag, date and helpful votes, sorted by helpfulness, date, rating or votes. Pass nextCursor to read the next page.

GET/v1/imdb/reviewsx-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

idstringquery

IMDb title ID such as tt0111161. Provide id or url, not both.

max 12 chars

Examplett0111161

urlstringquery

imdb.com title URL such as https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/reviews/.

max 1024 chars

sortenumquery

helpful (default), newest, rating or votes; always highest first.

one of: helpful, newest, rating, votes

Examplenewest

limitstringquery

Reviews per page, 1 to 25 (default 25).

Example10

cursorstringquery

nextCursor from the previous page with the same sort.

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

titleIdstring

IMDb title ID (tt…).

titlestringnullable

Display title, or null.

sortenum

helpful (default), newest, rating or votes; always highest first.

one of: helpful, newest, rating, votes

totalintegernullable

Total user reviews, or null.

≥ 0

User reviews in the requested order.

up to 25 items

reviews.idstring

Always included.

reviews.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

Always included.

reviews.author.nicknamestringnullable

Always included.

reviews.author.userIdstringnullable

Always included.

reviews.ratingintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

reviews.titlestringnullable

Always included.

reviews.textstringnullable

Always included.

reviews.spoilerboolean

Always included.

reviews.submittedAtstringnullable

Always included.

reviews.helpfulVotesintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

reviews.unhelpfulVotesintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

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/reviews?id=tt0111161&sort=newest&limit=10" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/imdb/reviews?id=tt0111161&sort=newest&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/reviews?id=tt0111161&sort=newest&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/reviews",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "id": "tt0111161",
        "sort": "newest",
        "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/reviews?id=tt0111161&sort=newest&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/reviews?id=tt0111161&sort=newest&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/title/tt0111161/reviews/",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 9733,
    "durationMs": 600
  },
  "titleId": "tt0111161",
  "title": "The Shawshank Redemption",
  "sort": "helpful",
  "total": 12083,
  "reviews": [
    {
      "id": "rw0000001",
      "url": "https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0000001/",
      "author": {
        "nickname": "example_reviewer",
        "userId": "ur0000001"
      },
      "rating": 10,
      "title": "A film worth rewatching",
      "text": "Example review text as published on IMDb.",
      "spoiler": false,
      "submittedAt": "2021-02-17",
      "helpfulVotes": 672,
      "unhelpfulVotes": 52
    }
  ],
  "nextCursor": "g4x77dbqqywd4yac76vxtmzyrtq42cj43qpd7zh6iwdpwuddnetkqccjdv4lwawcia53d7vr2efjisdqtqja"
}

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."
  }
}