# The Open Movie Database Search API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/the-open-movie-database/the-open-movie-database-search-api/  
**Provider:** The Open Movie Database — https://apis.io/providers/the-open-movie-database/  
**Base URL:** https://www.omdbapi.com  
**Documentation:** https://www.omdbapi.com/

The Open Movie Database Search API is one of 2 APIs that [The Open Movie Database](https://apis.io/providers/the-open-movie-database/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions. Tagged areas include Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, and 2 JSON Schemas.

Search for movies and series by title.

## Machine-readable artifacts (9)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-open-movie-database/refs/heads/main/openapi/the-open-movie-database-search-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://www.omdbapi.com/
- **Signup** — https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx
- **SpectralRules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-open-movie-database/refs/heads/main/rules/the-open-movie-database-rules.yml
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-open-movie-database/refs/heads/main/json-schema/the-open-movie-database-movie-schema.json
- **JSONStructure** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-open-movie-database/refs/heads/main/json-structure/the-open-movie-database-movie-structure.json
- **JSONLD** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-open-movie-database/refs/heads/main/json-ld/the-open-movie-database-context.jsonld
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-open-movie-database/refs/heads/main/examples/the-open-movie-database-get-movie-example.json
- **Vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-open-movie-database/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/the-open-movie-database-vocabulary.yml

## Other The Open Movie Database APIs (1)

- [The Open Movie Database Movies API](https://apis.io/apis/the-open-movie-database/the-open-movie-database-movies-api/)

## Tags

Search

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