Metacritic

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
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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: '0.19'
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: 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