OMDb

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
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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 API
  description: 'RESTful web service returning movie, series, and episode metadata sourced from IMDb identifiers or title searches.
    Returns title, year, genre, director, cast, ratings (IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic), plot, and more in JSON or XML
    format.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.omdbapi.com/
  baseURL: https://www.omdbapi.com/
  tags:
  - Movies
  - Television
  - Metadata
  - Ratings
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.omdbapi.com/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://www.omdbapi.com/swagger.json
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/omdb/refs/heads/main/openapi/omdb-api-openapi.yml
  - 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
- 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/
common:
- 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