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The Movie Database

Welcome to version 3 of The Movie Database (TMDB) API. This is where you will find the definitive list of currently available methods for our movie, tv, actor and image API.

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 The Movie Database the way a machine reads it — 37 machine-readable artifacts across 21 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 — The Movie Database scores 53.0/100 (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 — 53.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 7.5 / 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 The Movie Database

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for The Movie Database. 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 21

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.

The Movie Database Account API

The Account API from The Movie Database — 11 operation(s) for account.

The Movie Database Authentication API

The Authentication API from The Movie Database — 7 operation(s) for authentication.

The Movie Database Certification API

The Certification API from The Movie Database — 2 operation(s) for certification.

The Movie Database Collection API

The Collection API from The Movie Database — 3 operation(s) for collection.

The Movie Database Company API

The Company API from The Movie Database — 3 operation(s) for company.

The Movie Database Configuration API

The Configuration API from The Movie Database — 6 operation(s) for configuration.

The Movie Database Credit API

The Credit API from The Movie Database — 1 operation(s) for credit.

The Movie Database Discover API

The Discover API from The Movie Database — 2 operation(s) for discover.

The Movie Database Find API

The Find API from The Movie Database — 1 operation(s) for find.

The Movie Database Genre API

The Genre API from The Movie Database — 2 operation(s) for genre.

The Movie Database Guest Session API

The Guest Session API from The Movie Database — 3 operation(s) for guest session.

The Movie Database Keyword API

The Keyword API from The Movie Database — 2 operation(s) for keyword.

The Movie Database List API

The List API from The Movie Database — 6 operation(s) for list.

The Movie Database Movie API

The Movie API from The Movie Database — 23 operation(s) for movie.

The Movie Database Network API

The Network API from The Movie Database — 3 operation(s) for network.

The Movie Database Person API

The Person API from The Movie Database — 12 operation(s) for person.

The Movie Database Review API

The Review API from The Movie Database — 1 operation(s) for review.

The Movie Database Search API

The Search API from The Movie Database — 7 operation(s) for search.

The Movie Database Trending API

The Trending API from The Movie Database — 4 operation(s) for trending.

The Movie Database Tv API

The Tv API from The Movie Database — 46 operation(s) for tv.

The Movie Database Watch API

The Watch API from The Movie Database — 3 operation(s) for watch.

Scroll within the panel for all 21 ·

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).

tmdb-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.

The Movie Database Rate Limits

5 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.

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.

The Movie Database Context

0 classes · 33 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.

The Movie Database API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

The Movie Database API Rules

10 rules · 3 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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.

TMDB Movie

24 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TMDB TV Series

25 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

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.

Examples 3

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.

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.

The Movie Database Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

The Movie Database Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · 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.

The Movie Database Agentic Access

152 operations · 17 acting

152 operations · 17 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for The Movie Database — 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 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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