The Open Movie Database

The OMDb API is a RESTful web service to obtain movie, series, and episode information. All content and images on the site are contributed and maintained by users. Access movie and TV metadata including title, year, genre, director, cast, plot, ratings, and IMDb data. Search by title or look up by IMDb ID. Requires a free API key obtained at omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx.

The Open Movie Database publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Movies API and Search API. Tagged areas include Entertainment, Movies, Television, IMDb, and Metadata.

The The Open Movie Database catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

The Open Movie Database’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, signup flow, and 5 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

37.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

2 APIs

Entertainment Movies TelevisionIMDbMetadata

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 37.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 16.1 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Access Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13

Contract Governance 1.2 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · 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 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 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/the-open-movie-database: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Want it done for you? Prioritized profiling — $2,500 →

APIs 2

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

The Open Movie Database Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 1

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

Examples 1

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

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: the-open-movie-database
name: The Open Movie Database
description: The OMDb API is a RESTful web service to obtain movie, series, and episode information. All content and images
  on the site are contributed and maintained by users. Access movie and TV metadata including title, year, genre, director,
  cast, plot, ratings, and IMDb data. Search by title or look up by IMDb ID. Requires a free API key obtained at omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/the-open-movie-database.png
tags:
- Entertainment
- Movies
- Television
- IMDb
- Metadata
created: '2025-03-01'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-open-movie-database/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: the-open-movie-database:the-open-movie-database-movies-api
  name: The Open Movie Database Movies API
  description: Retrieve movie, series, and episode details by ID or title.
  humanURL: https://www.omdbapi.com/
  baseURL: https://www.omdbapi.com
  tags:
  - Movies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/the-open-movie-database-movies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.omdbapi.com/
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/the-open-movie-database-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/the-open-movie-database-movie-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/the-open-movie-database-movie-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/the-open-movie-database-context.jsonld
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/the-open-movie-database-get-movie-example.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/the-open-movie-database-vocabulary.yml
- aid: the-open-movie-database:the-open-movie-database-search-api
  name: The Open Movie Database Search API
  description: Search for movies and series by title.
  humanURL: https://www.omdbapi.com/
  baseURL: https://www.omdbapi.com
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/the-open-movie-database-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.omdbapi.com/
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/the-open-movie-database-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/the-open-movie-database-movie-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/the-open-movie-database-movie-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/the-open-movie-database-context.jsonld
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/the-open-movie-database-get-movie-example.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/the-open-movie-database-vocabulary.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/the-open-movie-database-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/the-open-movie-database-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/the-open-movie-database-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/omdbapi
- type: Website
  url: https://www.omdbapi.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.omdbapi.com/
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.omdbapi.com/legal.htm
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Work with this as data

Every provider here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for providers

9 MCP tools reach this

find_providersBrowse and filter every provider in the catalog.
get_provider_artifactsEvery artifact this provider publishes, grouped by type.
get_provider_operationsEvery operation across all of their OpenAPIs — one call instead of parsing every spec.
get_provider_toolsEvery MCP tool they ship, with the operation each wraps.
get_provider_evidenceHow each part of their score was established. Free — the basis for a claim should not sit behind it.
get_provider_ratingPRO — composite, band, trend and facet scores.
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.

All 92 tools

Call it yourself

curl for this page

This provider

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/the-open-movie-database"

All providers

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers?limit=25"

Every operation they expose

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/the-open-movie-database/operations?limit=25"

How their score was established

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/the-open-movie-database/evidence"

Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.

Get an API key

Free tier, no email required.

GitHub Google LinkedIn

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.