# Metacritic Scraper - Metascores & User Scores (`aolmo/metacritic-scores`) Actor

Scores of any game, movie or TV show on Metacritic by URL, without login: Metascore, critic review split, user score and number of ratings, plus release date, rating, genres, companies and per-platform scores for games. Scheduled runs report score changes. $0.002 per title.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/aolmo/metacritic-scores.md
- **Developed by:** [Antonio del Olmo Tena](https://apify.com/aolmo) (community)
- **Categories:** News
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 title scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

Get the scores of any game, movie or TV show on Metacritic without logging in. Give title URLs and the Actor returns the Metascore with its sentiment and the split of positive, neutral and negative critic reviews, the user score with the number of ratings, the release date, age rating, genres, companies and, for games, the score on each platform. Schedule it and score changes since the previous run are reported with their difference. Game and film marketing, launch tracking, review dashboards and entertainment datasets at $0.002 per title.

### What you get

**Title** (one row each): `url`, `kind`, `slug`, `title`, `description`, `releaseDate`, `year`, `rating`, `genres`, `companies`, `imageUrl`.

**Critics**: `metascore`, `metascoreSentiment`, `criticReviews`, `criticPositive`, `criticNeutral`, `criticNegative`.

**Users**: `userScore`, `userSentiment`, `userRatings`.

**Platforms** (games): `platforms`, a list with `platform`, `metascore`, `reviewCount` and `releaseDate`.

**Changes** on scheduled runs: `metascoreChange`, `userScoreChange` and `userRatingsChange` (null on the first run).

Titles that do not exist return a row with an `error` field and are not charged.

### How to use it

1. Open the **Input** tab.
2. Add **Metacritic URLs**, one per line (up to 500 per run): `https://www.metacritic.com/game/elden-ring/`, `https://www.metacritic.com/movie/oppenheimer/` or `https://www.metacritic.com/tv/severance/`.
3. Click **Start** and export the rows as JSON, CSV or Excel.
4. Schedule the Actor around a launch to follow how scores evolve.

### Input

```json
{
  "urls": ["https://www.metacritic.com/game/elden-ring/", "https://www.metacritic.com/movie/oppenheimer/"]
}
```

### Output

```json
{
  "url": "https://www.metacritic.com/game/elden-ring/",
  "kind": "game",
  "slug": "elden-ring",
  "title": "Elden Ring",
  "description": "A New World Created By Hidetaka Miyazaki And George R. R. Martin...",
  "releaseDate": "2022-02-25",
  "year": 2022,
  "rating": "M",
  "genres": ["Action RPG"],
  "companies": ["From Software", "Bandai Namco Games"],
  "metascore": 96,
  "metascoreSentiment": "Universal acclaim",
  "criticReviews": 93,
  "criticPositive": 86,
  "criticNeutral": 0,
  "criticNegative": 0,
  "userScore": 8.4,
  "userSentiment": "Generally Favorable",
  "userRatings": 24940,
  "platforms": [{ "platform": "PC", "metascore": 94, "reviewCount": 63, "releaseDate": "2022-02-25" }],
  "imageUrl": "https://www.metacritic.com/a/img/resize/...",
  "metascoreChange": null,
  "userScoreChange": null,
  "userRatingsChange": null,
  "timestamp": "2026-10-31T10:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per event: **$0.002 per title** and **$0.0005 per title whose scores changed** on a scheduled run. Unknown titles are free. Tracking 100 titles daily costs $0.20 a day.

### Limits and notes

- Individual critic and user reviews are on separate pages and are not included, only the summaries.
- For games, the headline scores are those of the page's lead platform; `platforms` has the score on each one.
- Titles that have too few reviews have null scores, as on the site.
- Music pages are not supported.

### Related Actors

- **Steam Game**: price and recommendations of a game.
- **Goodreads Book**: ratings of a book.
- **YouTube Search**: trailers and video reviews.

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

One per line: https://www.metacritic.com/game/elden-ring/, https://www.metacritic.com/movie/oppenheimer/ or https://www.metacritic.com/tv/severance/. Up to 500 per run.

## `product` (type: `string`):

Internal. Leave as is.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.metacritic.com/game/elden-ring/",
    "https://www.metacritic.com/movie/oppenheimer/"
  ],
  "product": "metacritic-scores"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset items: url, changed, events, data, timestamp and error (when the target failed).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://www.metacritic.com/game/elden-ring/",
        "https://www.metacritic.com/movie/oppenheimer/"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("aolmo/metacritic-scores").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "urls": [
        "https://www.metacritic.com/game/elden-ring/",
        "https://www.metacritic.com/movie/oppenheimer/",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("aolmo/metacritic-scores").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.metacritic.com/game/elden-ring/",
    "https://www.metacritic.com/movie/oppenheimer/"
  ]
}' |
apify call aolmo/metacritic-scores --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,aolmo/metacritic-scores"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/jVffcgBz115mWcxM5/builds/hjhHd15mwy3WP1afb/openapi.json