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IMDb-API

Community web service (operated under the IMDb-API / TV-API brand) providing movie, TV series and cast information in JSON. Aggregates data from IMDb, TheMovieDb, Wikipedia, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, TheTVDB, FilmAffinity and YouTube. Originally hosted at imdb-api.com and migrated to tv-api.com. Operated by the IMDb-API GitHub user (open source C# client library and Windows client app). NOT an official IMDb / Amazon product — IMDb itself does not expose a public API; community scrapers such as this one (alongside OMDb, TMDB and Apify's IMDb scraper) fill the gap.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles IMDb-API the way a machine reads it — 58 machine-readable artifacts across 6 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — IMDb-API scores 52.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 52.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile IMDb-API

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for IMDb-API. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 6

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

IMDb-API External API

Wikipedia, external sites, reviews, FAQ and other ancillary data.

IMDb-API Lists API

Curated and aggregated lists (Top 250, Most Popular, In Theaters, Coming Soon, Box Office).

IMDb-API Name API

People (actors, directors, writers) information and awards.

IMDb-API Search API

Free-text and faceted search across titles, names, companies and keywords.

IMDb-API Title API

Movie and series metadata, posters, images, trailers, cast, ratings.

IMDb-API Tools API

Image utilities and account usage.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

IMDb-API (TV-API)

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Imdb Api Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 10

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Title metadata

Full movie / series / episode metadata by IMDb tt-id.

Aggregated ratings

IMDb, Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, TMDB and FilmAffinity scores in a single response.

Full cast and crew

Directors, writers, actors and other crew with IMDb nm-ids.

Search

Title, movie, series, name, episode, company and keyword search; plus faceted advanced search.

Curated lists

Top 250 movies and TV, Most Popular, In Theaters, Coming Soon, Weekend & All-Time Box Office.

Media assets

Posters, image galleries, trailers and YouTube trailer URLs.

External links

Cross-platform identifiers (Netflix, FilmAffinity, TheTVDB) and Wikipedia plot summaries.

Reviews

User reviews and Metacritic critic reviews.

Image utilities

Server-side resize for arbitrary URLs and preset-token poster resizing.

Usage telemetry

Per-key daily quota consumption via /API/Usage.

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Imdb Api Context

41 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

IMDb-API API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

IMDb-API API Rules

7 rules · 2 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Name

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Rating

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchResult

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Title

22 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Usage

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 3

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Imdb Api Name Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Imdb Api Rating Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Imdb Api Title Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 6

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Imdb Api Fullcast Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Imdb Api Ratings Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Imdb Api Search Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Imdb Api Title Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Imdb Api Usage Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Imdb Api Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Imdb Api Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Imdb Api Agentic Access

37 operations

37 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 5

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Media catalog enrichment

Hydrate an in-house movie or TV catalog with posters, plots, cast and ratings.

Recommendation systems

Drive what-to-watch suggestions from Top 250, Most Popular and similar-titles signals.

Review aggregation

Surface IMDb, Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes scores in a single UI.

Box office dashboards

Track weekend and all-time box office performance.

Entertainment chatbots

Answer movie and cast questions from a conversational agent.

Integrations 10

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

IMDb

Primary source of title and name ids.

TheMovieDb (TMDB)

Source of secondary ratings and additional metadata.

Rotten Tomatoes

Critic and audience scores.

Metacritic

Metascore and critic reviews.

FilmAffinity

Community ratings.

TheTVDB

External TV id linkage.

Wikipedia

Plot summaries and PlotLocal in multiple languages.

YouTube

Trailer video resolution.

Apify

Alternative IMDb data path documented in the broader ecosystem.

OMDb API

Adjacent community IMDb wrapper consumers often compare.

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Solutions 3

Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.

Packaged solutions this provider offers.

Free tier

100 requests/day for hobbyists and prototypes.

Standard / Plus

Small-to-growing applications (5k-10k requests/day).

Premium

Production applications (30k-999k requests/day, unlimited IP authorizations).

Resources

Every other property we hold for IMDb-API — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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