TheTVDB
TheTVDB is a community-driven television and movie metadata database founded in 2006. It supplies structured metadata about hundreds of thousands of TV series, movies, people, artwork, awards, and related entities to media center applications, streaming guides, and entertainment apps worldwide. TheTVDB v4 API uses JWT bearer authentication and exposes REST endpoints for series, movies, people, artwork, awards, episodes, genres, languages, countries, companies, content ratings, search, seasons, and updates. Commercial usage requires either a subscriber-supported API key (each end user must maintain a $12/year TheTVDB subscription) or a negotiated commercial license based on company revenue tier.
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 TheTVDB the way a machine reads it — 240 machine-readable artifacts across 29 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 — TheTVDB scores 59.8/100 (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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile TheTVDB
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for TheTVDB. 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 29
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.
TheTVDB Artwork API
The Artwork API from TheTVDB — 2 operation(s) for artwork.
TheTVDB Artwork Statuses API
The Artwork Statuses API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for artwork statuses.
TheTVDB Artwork Types API
The Artwork Types API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for artwork types.
TheTVDB Award Categories API
The Award Categories API from TheTVDB — 2 operation(s) for award categories.
TheTVDB Awards API
The Awards API from TheTVDB — 3 operation(s) for awards.
TheTVDB Characters API
The Characters API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for characters.
TheTVDB Companies API
The Companies API from TheTVDB — 3 operation(s) for companies.
TheTVDB Content Ratings API
The Content Ratings API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for content ratings.
TheTVDB Countries API
The Countries API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for countries.
TheTVDB Entity Types API
The Entity Types API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for entity types.
TheTVDB Episodes API
The Episodes API from TheTVDB — 4 operation(s) for episodes.
TheTVDB Favorites API
The Favorites API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for favorites.
TheTVDB Genders API
The Genders API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for genders.
TheTVDB Genres API
The Genres API from TheTVDB — 2 operation(s) for genres.
TheTVDB InspirationTypes API
The InspirationTypes API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for inspirationtypes.
TheTVDB Languages API
The Languages API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for languages.
TheTVDB Lists API
The Lists API from TheTVDB — 5 operation(s) for lists.
TheTVDB Login API
The Login API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for login.
TheTVDB Movie Statuses API
The Movie Statuses API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for movie statuses.
TheTVDB Movies API
The Movies API from TheTVDB — 6 operation(s) for movies.
TheTVDB People API
The People API from TheTVDB — 4 operation(s) for people.
TheTVDB People Types API
The People Types API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for people types.
TheTVDB Search API
The Search API from TheTVDB — 2 operation(s) for search.
TheTVDB Seasons API
The Seasons API from TheTVDB — 5 operation(s) for seasons.
TheTVDB Series API
The Series API from TheTVDB — 10 operation(s) for series.
TheTVDB Series Statuses API
The Series Statuses API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for series statuses.
TheTVDB Source Types API
The Source Types API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for source types.
TheTVDB Updates API
The Updates API from TheTVDB — 1 operation(s) for updates.
TheTVDB User info API
The User info API from TheTVDB — 2 operation(s) for user info.
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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).
TVDB API V4
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.
Tvdb Plans Pricing
PLANSRate 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.
Tvdb 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.
Tvdb Finops
FINOPSFeatures 18
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.
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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.
Tvdb 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.
TheTVDB API Rules
SPECTRALTheTVDB API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 63
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.
Alias
JSON SCHEMAArtworkBaseRecord
JSON SCHEMAArtworkExtendedRecord
JSON SCHEMAArtworkStatus
JSON SCHEMAArtworkType
JSON SCHEMAAwardBaseRecord
JSON SCHEMAAwardCategoryBaseRecord
JSON SCHEMAAwardCategoryExtendedRecord
JSON SCHEMAAwardExtendedRecord
JSON SCHEMAAwardNomineeBaseRecord
JSON SCHEMABiography
JSON SCHEMACharacter
JSON SCHEMACompanies
JSON SCHEMACompanyRelationShip
JSON SCHEMACompany
JSON SCHEMACompanyType
JSON SCHEMAContentRating
JSON SCHEMACountry
JSON SCHEMAEntity
JSON SCHEMAEntityType
JSON SCHEMAEntityUpdate
JSON SCHEMAEpisodeBaseRecord
JSON SCHEMAEpisodeExtendedRecord
JSON SCHEMAFavoriteRecord
JSON SCHEMAFavorites
JSON SCHEMAGender
JSON SCHEMAGenreBaseRecord
JSON SCHEMAInspiration
JSON SCHEMAInspirationType
JSON SCHEMALanguage
JSON SCHEMALinks
JSON SCHEMAListBaseRecord
JSON SCHEMAListExtendedRecord
JSON SCHEMAMovieBaseRecord
JSON SCHEMAMovieExtendedRecord
JSON SCHEMAParentCompany
JSON SCHEMAPeopleBaseRecord
JSON SCHEMAPeopleExtendedRecord
JSON SCHEMAPeopleType
JSON SCHEMAProductionCountry
JSON SCHEMARace
JSON SCHEMARecordInfo
JSON SCHEMARelease
JSON SCHEMARemoteID
JSON SCHEMASearchByRemoteIdResult
JSON SCHEMASearchResult
JSON SCHEMASeasonBaseRecord
JSON SCHEMASeasonExtendedRecord
JSON SCHEMASeasonType
JSON SCHEMASeriesAirsDays
JSON SCHEMASeriesBaseRecord
JSON SCHEMASeriesExtendedRecord
JSON SCHEMASourceType
JSON SCHEMAStatus
JSON SCHEMAStudioBaseRecord
JSON SCHEMATagOptionEntity
JSON SCHEMATagOption
JSON SCHEMATag
JSON SCHEMATrailer
JSON SCHEMATranslationExtended
JSON SCHEMATranslation
JSON SCHEMATranslationSimple
JSON SCHEMAUserInfo
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JSON Structure 63
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.
Tvdb Alias Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Artwork Base Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Artwork Extended Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Artwork Status Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Artwork Type Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Award Base Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Award Category Base Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Award Category Extended Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Award Extended Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Award Nominee Base Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Biography Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Character Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Companies Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Company Relation Ship Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Company Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Company Type Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Content Rating Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Country Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Entity Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Entity Type Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Entity Update Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Episode Base Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Episode Extended Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Favorite Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Favorites Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Gender Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Genre Base Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Inspiration Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Inspiration Type Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Language Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Links Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb List Base Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb List Extended Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Movie Base Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Movie Extended Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Parent Company Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb People Base Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb People Extended Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb People Type Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Production Country Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Race Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Record Info Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Release Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Remote Id Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Search By Remote Id Result Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Search Result Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Season Base Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Season Extended Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Season Type Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Series Airs Days Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Series Base Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Series Extended Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Source Type Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Status Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Studio Base Record Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Tag Option Entity Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Tag Option Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Tag Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Trailer Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Translation Extended Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Translation Simple Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb Translation Structure
JSON STRUCTURETvdb User Info Structure
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Examples 57
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.
Tvdb Alias Example
EXAMPLETvdb Artwork Status Example
EXAMPLETvdb Artwork Type Example
EXAMPLETvdb Biography Example
EXAMPLETvdb Character Example
EXAMPLETvdb Companies Example
EXAMPLETvdb Company Example
EXAMPLETvdb Company Type Example
EXAMPLETvdb Content Rating Example
EXAMPLETvdb Entity Example
EXAMPLETvdb Entity Type Example
EXAMPLETvdb Favorite Record Example
EXAMPLETvdb Favorites Example
EXAMPLETvdb Gender Example
EXAMPLETvdb Inspiration Example
EXAMPLETvdb Links Example
EXAMPLETvdb Parent Company Example
EXAMPLETvdb People Type Example
EXAMPLETvdb Race Example
EXAMPLETvdb Record Info Example
EXAMPLETvdb Release Example
EXAMPLETvdb Search Result Example
EXAMPLETvdb Season Type Example
EXAMPLETvdb Source Type Example
EXAMPLETvdb Tag Example
EXAMPLETvdb Trailer Example
EXAMPLETvdb Translation Example
EXAMPLETvdb User Info Example
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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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for TheTVDB — 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
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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