BookMyShow Scraper

Scrapes BookMyShow India: movies, live events (concerts, comedy, workshops, plays, sports, activities) and per-cinema showtimes.

What you get

Record kind	Fields (highlights)
movie	title, code, link, poster, languages, genres, censor, release date, duration, formats, synopsis, cast, director, listing section
event	title, code, link, poster, venue, category, date, time, price display, availability, synopsis
showtime	movie code, cinema name, date, time, session id, availability status, facility labels

Every record carries kind and recordId. Incremental mode adds changeType, changedFields, firstSeenAt, lastSeenAt.

Modes

• Search (default): walk one city x category listing. Cities use the site's own slugs; the top ten are mumbai, national-capital-region-ncr, bengaluru, hyderabad, chandigarh, ahmedabad, pune, chennai, kolkata, kochi. Any other city slug from the site works.
• URL: paste movie pages (/movies/...), live-show pages (/events/...), per-day showtimes pages (buytickets links, one record per showing) or city explore links (/explore/...), which are walked like search mode.

Movie filters (languages, genres, formats) use the site's own codes and narrow server-side. Unknown codes are dropped rather than silently ignored. The other categories ignore these filters.

Details and reviews

Fetch details (default on) reads each listing row's own page and merges the richer fields: synopsis, duration, censor, release date, formats, cast, director, and for live shows the date, time, venue, price display and availability. Each returned row whose detail page was read adds a small detail surcharge; rows whose detail page was refused are pushed with the listing fields and never charged. Turn it off for faster listing-shape rows.

User reviews and booking are account-gated on the site and are not part of this actor.

Limits, resume and recurring updates

maxItems stops a run early (0 = no limit). The listing surface arrives in one server-rendered page, so there is exactly one page per scope.

• Resume: paste a previous run ID or dataset ID to continue a large pull without returning records already collected there.
• Incremental mode: for scheduled monitoring. The first run returns every record as NEW; later runs return only NEW, UPDATED and REAPPEARED. The poster image URL (it embeds a live like-count and churns hourly) and the listing widget a card was served under are excluded from change detection, so neither churn alone is ever an UPDATED row. emitUnchanged and emitExpired return (and bill) extra rows.

Send results into your apps (MCP connectors)

Add a connector ID under mcpConnectors (authorize it under Apify, Settings, API & Integrations). Notion gets a rich page-per-item export when you also set notionParentPageUrl; other connectors get a best-effort write. maxNotifyListings caps the export per run. The dataset output never changes.

Connection

The default proxy is Apify RESIDENTIAL country-IN, applied to every run (Console, API, CLI or schedule) unless you override it: that is the lane the site serves reliably. The groupless datacenter pool is refused on roughly half its exits. You can bring your own proxy via proxyConfiguration.

Output

Dataset fields are listed on the Output tab. Movies, events and showtimes share one dataset, discriminated by kind; dataset views for movies, events and showtimes are preconfigured.

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