Look up IMDb movies, series and episodes with ratings, votes, cast, crew, release details and box office. Read actor and director profiles, search titles and people, page through user reviews and list the IMDb Top 250 and most popular charts.
Gibran PulgaCEO, Desys FinanceWe use ScrapeAtlas to gather social sentiment data for our banking partners at a scale we wouldn't have been able to otherwise.
WHAT YOU CAN BUILD / 05 ENDPOINTS
Find your use case, then explore the request and response.
/v1/imdb/titleBuild a movie or TV detail page from an IMDb ID or URL with the title, type, year, runtime, genres, rating and votes, Metascore, plot, poster, release date, certificate, directors, writers, creators, top cast and box office.
/v1/imdb/personBuild an actor or director profile from an IMDb name ID or URL with the bio, birth and death details, professions, popularity rank, known-for titles and credit counts by role.
/v1/imdb/searchBuild a title and people lookup from a keyword with IMDb IDs, titles, types, years, ratings and votes, plus professions and a known-for title for people. Continue with the returned nextCursor.
/v1/imdb/reviewsBuild a review analysis feed from user reviews with ratings, headlines, text, spoiler flags, dates and helpful votes, sorted by helpfulness, date, rating or votes. Continue with the returned nextCursor.
/v1/imdb/chartBuild a ranking tracker from the IMDb Top 250 movies or TV shows or the most popular titles, with rank, rating, votes, year, runtime, certificate, genres and poster.
HOW IT WORKS
Run a sample below without a key.
Create a free account and copy your key. You start with 100 free credits; no card needed.
Pick one of the 5 IMDb endpoints and add its input, such as a public URL.
Call it with your key in the x-api-key header. ScrapeAtlas reads the public IMDb data and retries when a read fails.
Get structured JSON with a coverage status. Only successful requests use a credit.
LIVE RESULTS
Try the IMDb API right here. This sample uses the Get an IMDb title endpoint and returns live JSON. No API key needed.
Start with https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/, or change the url field to your own value.
Execute the sample code and see the response in the JSON response tab.
Open the full playground to try more parameters and copy code for your app.
// Run this sample here — no API key needed.
const value = "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/";
const url = new URL("/website/demo/imdb",
"https://api.scrapeatlas.com");
url.searchParams.set("value", value);
const response = await fetch(url);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);Run the sample to see the live JSON response here./v1/imdb/titleA live example from our playground. Change the value above, then select Run sample.
CUSTOMER STORIES
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Matteo L.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)Read on G2I use ScrapeAtlas to find product ideas—real ideas that people need. I couldn’t get to people’s ideas on social media platforms without it. I like that it’s easy and capable, and it isn’t expensive. I value the scraping and MCP features. …
Ms H.Sales, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)Read on G2ScrapeAtlas saves me from juggling a different scraper for every platform. … ScrapeAtlas solves the problem of getting reliable public data from many social and e-commerce platforms without building and maintaining my own scrapers.
Watch Janu’s storyWe use ScrapeAtlas to gather social sentiment data for our banking partners at a scale we wouldn't have been able to otherwise.
Gibran PulgaCEO, Desys Finance
Stas D.Founder, Marketing and AdvertisingRead on G2I like the convenient documentation and conditions at ScrapeAtlas. The parsers work great: I use keyword data from fresh threads to find target audiences and clients in Threads. I also appreciate the higher quality API responses and more detailed request customization. The initial setup was very easy for me.
Pay as you go
One-time credit packs, priced in US dollars. Credits never expire, and there is no monthly commitment.
Try the API with your next idea.
$0No credit card needed
100 free credits
One starter grant per account
For a new idea or a one-off project.
$19USD / one-time
10,000 credits
$1.90 per 1,000 credits
For regular workflows and bigger builds.
$89USD / one-time
50,000 credits
$1.78 per 1,000 credits
Save 6.3% compared with Starter
For high-volume data collection.
$249USD / one-time
200,000 credits
$1.25 per 1,000 credits
Save 34.5% compared with Starter
Enterprise Plan
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IMDb API
Retrieve public IMDb movies, series and episodes, cast and crew profiles, search results, user reviews and charts as structured JSON. Titles include ratings, votes, Metascore, genres, runtime, plot, poster, release details, directors, writers, top cast and box office when IMDb lists it.
Send a keyword to Search IMDb and choose all, titles or people. Title results include the IMDb ID, type, year, rating and vote count; people results include professions and a known-for title. Pass the returned nextCursor as cursor to read the next page.
Send an IMDb title ID such as tt0111161 or an imdb.com title URL to Get an IMDb title. The response returns the title, type, year, runtime, genres, rating and votes, Metascore, plot, poster, release date and country, certificate, directors, writers, creators, stars, up to 15 cast members with characters, countries, languages and box office figures.
Yes. Send a title ID or URL to List IMDb user reviews to retrieve up to 25 reviews per page with the reviewer’s nickname, rating, headline, text, spoiler flag, date and helpful votes. Sort by helpful, newest, rating or votes, and pass nextCursor to continue.
Call Get an IMDb chart with chart set to top-movies or top-tv and a limit of up to 250 to retrieve the whole list in one request, with rank, rating, votes, year, runtime, certificate, genres and poster. popular-movies and popular-tv return the most popular titles.
Yes. Send an IMDb name ID such as nm0000151 or an imdb.com name URL to Get an IMDb person. The response returns the bio, birth and death dates and places, professions, alternate names, popularity rank, up to four known-for titles and credit counts for acting, directing, writing, producing and more.
Create a ScrapeAtlas account and generate an API key in the dashboard. Send the key in the x-api-key request header when calling https://api.scrapeatlas.com. The API playground lets you enter an endpoint’s parameters and inspect its JSON response.
Yes. Send authenticated HTTP requests from Python, JavaScript or another language that supports HTTP. The endpoint reference includes request examples and response fields. Use the ScrapeAtlas CLI for terminal workflows and pass the returned pagination values when requesting additional result pages.
Yes. Connect an MCP-compatible assistant to the ScrapeAtlas MCP server to discover and call the public platform tools with your ScrapeAtlas account. The agent reference also gives coding assistants a readable guide to the endpoints and their request schemas.
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