Metacritic

Metacritic is a review aggregator that collects critic and user scores for games, movies, TV shows, and music, computing a weighted Metascore for each title. The Metacritic API (provided via Fabric Origin / IVA / Gracenote) gives programmatic access to Metascores, user scores, individual critic reviews, publication details, and entertainment rankings for movies and television. Unofficial community-built wrappers also expose game, movie, and TV data from Metacritic's public backend.

Metacritic publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Entertainment, Reviews, Metascore, Games, and Movies.

Metacritic’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, support, and 5 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

22.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 5/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

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Entertainment ReviewsMetascoreGames Movies Television MusicReview AggregatorCritic ScoresUser Scores

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 22.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 9.5 / 20

Access Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 5/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Metacritic API (Fabric Origin)

The official Metacritic API, delivered through Fabric Origin (formerly IVA / Gracenote), provides structured access to Metascores, user scores, and individual critic reviews for...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plans

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Metacritic Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Contact

Contact

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: metacritic
name: Metacritic
description: Metacritic is a review aggregator that collects critic and user scores for games, movies, TV shows, and music,
  computing a weighted Metascore for each title. The Metacritic API (provided via Fabric Origin / IVA / Gracenote) gives programmatic
  access to Metascores, user scores, individual critic reviews, publication details, and entertainment rankings for movies
  and television. Unofficial community-built wrappers also expose game, movie, and TV data from Metacritic's public backend.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: true
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid (free trial)
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/metacritic.png
tags:
- Entertainment
- Reviews
- Metascore
- Games
- Movies
- Television
- Music
- Review Aggregator
- Critic Scores
- User Scores
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/metacritic/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: metacritic:metacritic-api
  name: Metacritic API (Fabric Origin)
  description: The official Metacritic API, delivered through Fabric Origin (formerly IVA / Gracenote), provides structured
    access to Metascores, user scores, and individual critic reviews for movies and TV shows. Requests are authenticated with
    a subscription key passed via the Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key header or as a query parameter. Access requires a paid Fabric
    Origin subscription — data is not available on free trial plans and each developer account must be approved before use.
  humanURL: https://developer.origin.fabricdata.com/origin/apis-all/metacritic-api-docs/metacritic
  baseURL: https://api.origin.fabricdata.com/api/Metacritic
  tags:
  - Reviews
  - Metascore
  - Movies
  - Television
  - Critic Scores
  - User Scores
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.origin.fabricdata.com/origin/apis-all/metacritic-api-docs/metacritic
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.origin.fabricdata.com/origin/apis-all/metacritic-api-docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.origin.fabricdata.com/origin/apis-all/metacritic-api-docs/metacritic
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/metacritic/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/metacritic/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/metacritic/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
  contact:
  - FN: Fabric Origin Sales
    url: https://www.fabricdata.com/contact
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/metacritic-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.metacritic.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://developer.origin.fabricdata.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.origin.fabricdata.com/origin/apis-all/metacritic-api-docs/metacritic
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.metacritic.com/about/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.metacritic.com/about/privacy-policy
- type: Support
  url: https://metacritichelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.fabricdata.com/contact
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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