OMDb

Open Movie Database REST API providing movie and TV show metadata, ratings, poster images, and episode data from a community-maintained database. Supports lookup by IMDb ID or title, full-text search, and a dedicated Poster API for high-resolution cover art available to patrons.

OMDb publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including ID Parameter API, Search Parameter API, Title Parameter API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Movies, Television, Entertainment, Metadata, and Ratings.

The OMDb catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

OMDb’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, GitHub presence, pricing, signup flow, and 9 more developer resources.

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36.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 27/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Movies Television Entertainment Metadata RatingsPostersIMDbOpen Data

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 36.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 11

Contract Governance 2.4 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 27/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 21.4 — up to +15.7 composite points
Access Clarity scores 28.9 — up to +14.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 13.2 — up to +11.3 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Film & Media Identifiers (EIDR, ISAN, MovieLabs, DPP)	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-
APIs.guru OpenAPI Directory (API definition directory)	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 4

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

OMDb Poster API

Dedicated image endpoint returning high-resolution movie and TV show poster art (up to 2000×3000 px) for over 280,000 titles, updated daily. Access is restricted to Patreon patr...

OMDb ID Parameter API

The ID Parameter API from OMDb — 1 operation(s) for id parameter.

OMDb Search Parameter API

The Search Parameter API from OMDb — 1 operation(s) for search parameter.

OMDb Title Parameter API

The Title Parameter API from OMDb — 1 operation(s) for title parameter.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

OMDb ID Parameter API

OPEN COLLECTION

OMDb ID Parameter Search Parameter API

OPEN COLLECTION

OMDb ID Parameter Title Parameter API

OPEN COLLECTION

OMDb API pricing

Not yet checked against OMDb's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-12; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Free	—
Patron	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Daily Request Limit: {'unit': 'day', 'value': 1}
Patron Daily Request Limit: {'unit': 'day', 'value': 1}
Sustained Burst Rate: {'unit': 'second', 'value': 60}

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against OMDb's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Omdb Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Omdb Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

OMDb

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Omdb Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Omdb Context

3 classes · 30 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

OMDb — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

OMDb Search Result

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OMDb Title Result

26 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Omdb Error Response

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Omdb Search Results

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Omdb Title By Id

25 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Omdb Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Omdb Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Omdb Agentic Access

3 operations

3 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Patreon

Patreon

Source (apis.yml)

aid: omdb
name: OMDb
description: 'Open Movie Database REST API providing movie and TV show metadata, ratings, poster images, and episode data
  from a community-maintained database. Supports lookup by IMDb ID or title, full-text search, and a dedicated Poster API
  for high-resolution cover art available to patrons.

  '
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - omdbapi/omdb-api
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/omdb.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/omdb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Movies
- Television
- Entertainment
- Metadata
- Ratings
- Posters
- IMDb
- Open Data
apis:
- name: OMDb Poster API
  description: 'Dedicated image endpoint returning high-resolution movie and TV show poster art (up to 2000×3000 px) for over
    280,000 titles, updated daily. Access is restricted to Patreon patrons.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.omdbapi.com/
  baseURL: https://img.omdbapi.com/
  tags:
  - Posters
  - Image
  - Movies
  - Television
  tags_raw:
  - Posters
  - Images
  - Movies
  - Television
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.omdbapi.com/
- aid: omdb:omdb-id-parameter-api
  name: OMDb ID Parameter API
  description: The ID Parameter API from OMDb — 1 operation(s) for id parameter.
  humanURL: https://www.omdbapi.com/
  tags:
  - ID Parameter
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/omdb-id-parameter-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.omdbapi.com/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/omdb/refs/heads/main/json-schema/omdb-title-result.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/omdb/refs/heads/main/json-schema/omdb-search-result.json
- aid: omdb:omdb-search-parameter-api
  name: OMDb Search Parameter API
  description: The Search Parameter API from OMDb — 1 operation(s) for search parameter.
  humanURL: https://www.omdbapi.com/
  tags:
  - Search Parameter
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/omdb-search-parameter-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.omdbapi.com/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/omdb/refs/heads/main/json-schema/omdb-title-result.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/omdb/refs/heads/main/json-schema/omdb-search-result.json
- aid: omdb:omdb-title-parameter-api
  name: OMDb Title Parameter API
  description: The Title Parameter API from OMDb — 1 operation(s) for title parameter.
  humanURL: https://www.omdbapi.com/
  tags:
  - Title Parameter
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/omdb-title-parameter-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.omdbapi.com/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/omdb/refs/heads/main/json-schema/omdb-title-result.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/omdb/refs/heads/main/json-schema/omdb-search-result.json
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/omdb-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/omdb-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/omdb-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.omdbapi.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.omdbapi.com/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/omdbapi/OMDb-API
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx
- type: Plans
  url: plans/omdb-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/omdb-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/omdb-finops.yml
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx
- type: Patreon
  url: https://www.patreon.com/omdb
- type: Vocabulary
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/omdb/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/omdb-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/omdb/refs/heads/main/json-ld/omdb-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- name: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

OMDb API — frequently asked questions

Does OMDb have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from OMDb, including OMDb Poster API, OMDb ID Parameter API and OMDb Search Parameter API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the OMDb API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for OMDb, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the OMDb API?

OMDb uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Omdb Authentication.

How much does the OMDb API cost?

APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for OMDb, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the OMDb API ready for AI agents?

OMDb has a Kin Score of 36.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 26.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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