# IMDb-API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/imdb-api/  
**Website:** https://tv-api.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 44.8 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 44.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 67.5 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 19.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 63.2 |
| Access Clarity | 63.2 |

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Imdb Api Agentic Access** — 37 operations

## Security (2)

- **Imdb Api Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Imdb Api Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Imdb Api Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **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.

## Tags

Video, Movies, TV, Entertainment, Metadata, Ratings, Public APIs

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/imdb-api/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.