IMDb Scraper for Titles, Ratings, and Metadata
Build an IMDb scraping pipeline that ships. Our API swaps in fresh data on each call without making your team manage browsers, proxies, or anti-bot challenges.
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Three Ways Developers Scrape IMDb
Scraping IMDb, the Internet Movie Database, usually means one of three jobs: fetching movie ratings, gathering cast details, or retrieving genre lists.
Fetch movie ratings
Fetch movie ratings to enhance decisions and refine content strategies with precise, real-time insights.
Gather cast details
Gather cast details to analyze talent trends, optimize casting decisions, and enhance production planning with comprehensive, structured data.
Retrieve genre lists
Retrieve genre lists to identify market trends, tailor content offerings, and optimize genre-specific marketing strategies with accurate, up-to-date data.
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How it works
Manually collecting data from IMDb is slow, limited and hard to scale. That's why more and more teams choose our API.
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Install our Python SDK (or Node, Go, PHP, Ruby - pick your stack). Each IMDb scrape becomes a single function call. No proxy rotation, no headless Chrome to manage.
Send the IMDb URL with your API key as a parameter. Our renderer executes the page in a real browser, rotates the IP, and returns the response your scraper can act on.
When IMDb pages need more, gain advanced parameters. render_js for JavaScript, stealth_proxy for CAPTCHAs, country_code for geo-targeting, ai_extract_rules for natural-language data extraction.
IMDb Scraper API - Tuned for IMDb's Page Structure
Pull IMDb title pages at scale. Title, year, cast, plot, ratings, runtime, genres, and box-office stats all parse in one call.
Extract IMDb data with AI Web Scraping, streamlining complex data retrieval for strategic insights.
AI Web Scraping
Capture IMDb visuals instantly. Useful for visual verification.
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Retrieve dynamic content by simulating user interactions. Execute custom JavaScript to control page behavior and extract relevant data accurately.
JavaScript Scraping API
Pull IMDb pages as clean Markdown, ready to feed into an LLM for movie-recommendation systems or content classification workflows.
Data Scraping Tool
Scrape IMDb by automating movie-tracking workflows with n8n and our API. Track new releases or rating shifts without writing scraper code.
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Public IMDb Data. Parsed and Structured
Every IMDb title page returns title, year, cast, plot summary, ratings, vote count, runtime, genres, and box-office data.
Setup in Under Five Minutes
Clear examples in Python, Node.js, cURL, and the request builder. Copy the snippet, swap in your API key, send the request.
DocumentationFrom IMDb URL to Clean JSON
Send an IMDb URL through our API. We render the JavaScript and return movie title, year, cast, plot, ratings, runtime, and genres as structured JSON via extract_rules or ai_extract_rules.
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Whatever the programming language you enjoy, we have written code examples in Java, Python, Go, PHP, cURL and JavaScript.
Knowledge base
Our extensive knowledge base covers the most frequent use cases with code samples.
Exceptional support
Fast, engineer-led support via live chat or email
Explore web scraping insights
Check out our documentation to find out more on how to utilise our API for your scraping needs.
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Why ScrapingBee?
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GDPR and CCPA compliant
ScrapingBee does not collect or store personal data from scraped sites unless their user explicitly requests it.
CAPTCHA bypass capacity
We handle proxy rotation to avoid IP-based blocking. With headless browser rendering, we mimic real user browsing behaviour and reduce the blocking risk.
Scalable
The platform scales smoothly with thousands of headless browsers and rotating proxies, ensuring fast, reliable performance even during traffic spikes.
Speed and accuracy
We deliver fast, reliable results in 1-5 seconds with high accuracy across most sites, even JavaScript-heavy ones.
IMDb Scraper API: Your Questions Answered
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