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.
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.
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.
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 COLLECTIONPricing 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
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Imdb Api Finops
FINOPSFeatures 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
JSON-LDSpectral 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
SPECTRALIMDb-API API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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.
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
JSON STRUCTUREImdb Api Rating Structure
JSON STRUCTUREImdb Api Title Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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
EXAMPLEImdb Api Ratings Example
EXAMPLEImdb Api Search Example
EXAMPLEImdb Api Title Example
EXAMPLEImdb Api Usage Example
EXAMPLESecurity 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.
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.
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
Build 6
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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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