IMDb API

Search titles & people

Fast autocomplete over titles + people (IMDb suggestion API).

Search plot keywords

Find IMDb plot keywords by name.

Search companies

Find production/distribution companies by name.

Advanced people search (name + birth-date + sort)

Search people with name + birth-date-range filters, sorted by popularity or name.

Search TV episodes by title

Find TV episodes by title text (episodes are titles — use the id on any /titles/* route).

Advanced title discovery (filters + sort)

Filter IMDb by title text, type, genres (in/exclude), year/date, rating, votes, runtime.

Weekend box-office chart

The current weekend box-office chart (title + weekend gross).

Curated charts (top-rated / most-popular / coming-soon)

A curated chart, ranked. `top-*` = highest-rated (min 25k votes); `popular-*` = meter.

Upcoming releases (movies or tv), region-aware

Upcoming theatrical/TV releases from today, by region.

Interest detail

An IMDb "interest" (genre/subgenre) with its description.

IMDb news by category (cursor-paginated)

IMDb news headlines for a category (title, date, source, external URL).

Video detail + playback/download URLs

A trailer/clip's detail plus direct playback URLs (multiple qualities) — downloadable.

User reviews (cursor-paginated)

User reviews with author, rating, text, helpfulness, and spoiler flag.

Season list (series)

The seasons available for a series (empty for non-series).

Episodes (optionally by season, cursor-paginated)

A series' episodes (title, episode number, air date, rating) — filter with `season`.

More like this

IMDb's "More like this" recommendations for a title.

Title details + computed insights

Full title (type, year, rating, runtime, genres, plot, poster, top credits) + insights.

Full cast & crew (cursor-paginated)

Every credited person with their `category` and (for cast) `characters`.

Aggregate rating, votes, popularity

The IMDb aggregate rating, vote count, and current popularity (MOVIEmeter) rank.

Images (cursor-paginated, proxied)

Stills/posters as durable, signed media-proxy URLs.

Trailers & clips (cursor-paginated)

Trailers/clips with name, type, runtime, and a proxied thumbnail.

Plot keywords (cursor-paginated)

Plot keywords for a title.

Release dates by country (cursor-paginated)

Per-country release dates.

Alternate titles (cursor-paginated)

Alternate/localized titles per country.

Production / distribution companies (cursor-paginated)

Companies credited on a title (production, distribution, etc.).

Awards & nominations (cursor-paginated)

Award wins & nominations (award, event, category, year, winner flag).

Interests (IMDb's genre/subgenre taxonomy)

IMDb "interests" — richer genre/subgenre tags (e.g. Epic, Period Drama).

Resolve many titles

Resolve up to `IMDB_MAX_BULK` titles; per-target failures are isolated.

Person details + computed insights

Full person (bio, birth/death, birthplace, professions, known-for) + insights.

Filmography (cursor-paginated)

A person's credits (title, category, characters), most-recent first.

A person's awards & nominations (cursor-paginated)

Award wins & nominations for a person.

A person's photos (cursor-paginated, proxied)

Photos of a person as durable, signed media-proxy URLs.

A person's videos (cursor-paginated)

Videos featuring a person (interviews, trailers).

Resolve many people

Resolve up to `IMDB_MAX_BULK` people; per-target failures are isolated.

Which backends/endpoints are enabled here

Report the media-proxy status and per-endpoint availability on this node.

Current request limits

Pagination + bulk caps.

Withhold a subject (GDPR/CCPA)

Register a data-subject erasure: the subject is withheld from responses on this node.