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 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: ID Parameter API, Search Parameter API, and Title Parameter API. 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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48.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 37/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try

4 APIs

MoviesTelevisionEntertainmentMetadataRatingsPostersIMDbOpen Data

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Composite quality — 48.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 19.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 8.3 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 37/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 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 0 / 4

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APIs 4

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Omdb Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

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.

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
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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: '0.19'
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
  - 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/
  baseURL: 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/
  baseURL: 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/
  baseURL: 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