# AlloCiné Movies Scraper (France: now playing & coming soon) (`bibian/allocine-movies-scraper`) Actor

Extract the movies now playing in French cinemas, this week's releases and the most awaited upcoming movies from AlloCiné: release date, duration, genres, directors, cast, press and audience ratings, number of showtimes, synopsis and poster.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bibian/allocine-movies-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Vivien MORVAN](https://apify.com/bibian) (community)
- **Categories:** Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 movies

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?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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

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# README

## AlloCiné Movies Scraper (France: now playing & coming soon)

Get the movies showing in French cinemas from [AlloCiné](https://www.allocine.fr), France's reference movie site, as clean structured data.

### What you can do with it

- **Track the box-office line-up**: every movie now playing, with its number of showtimes across France.
- **Compare reception**: press and audience ratings side by side.
- **Plan content and marketing**: this week's releases and the most awaited upcoming movies.
- **Feed apps and newsletters**: synopsis, cast, director, genres and poster for each movie.

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Which movies | `now-playing`, `this-week` (releases of the week) or `coming-soon` (most awaited). |
| Maximum number of movies | The run stops once this many movies are saved. |

### Output

One record per movie:

```json
{
  "id": "327941",
  "url": "https://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=327941.html",
  "title": "La Vie d'une femme",
  "releaseDate": "2026-09-09",
  "durationMinutes": 98,
  "genres": ["Comédie dramatique"],
  "directors": ["Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet"],
  "cast": ["Léa Drucker", "Mélanie Thierry", "Charles Berling"],
  "pressRating": 3.7,
  "audienceRating": 3.7,
  "showtimesCount": 1033,
  "synopsis": "Gabrielle se consacre corps et âme à son métier…",
  "posterUrl": "https://fr.web.img4.acsta.net/c_310_420/img/46/d4/46d4170eaca90b7bd1dae27db18ed739.jpg"
}
```

Ratings are out of 5. `showtimesCount` is the number of showtimes AlloCiné lists in France for the movie. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the Apify API.

### Good to know

- Each page gives about 15 movies with full data: fast and cheap, no browser or proxy needed.
- Ratings and showtimes are empty when AlloCiné has none yet (for example for upcoming movies).

### Why this one

- **Three lists in one actor.** Movies now playing, this week's releases and the most awaited upcoming movies, chosen with a single input field.
- **A box-office signal.** `showtimesCount` is the number of screenings scheduled across France for each movie.
- **Press and audience ratings side by side**, with director, cast, genres, synopsis and poster in the same record.

### Pricing

Pay per result: **$2.00 per 1,000 movies**, plus $0.00005 per run start. For example, 100 movies cost about $0.20. You only pay for the movies you receive, and platform usage is included in that price.

### Run it from your code

JavaScript:

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

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('bibian/allocine-movies-scraper').call({
  list: 'now-playing',
  maxItems: 50,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
```

Python:

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(token="<APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("bibian/allocine-movies-scraper").call(run_input={
    "list": "now-playing",
    "maxItems": 50
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
```

### Frequently asked questions

**Do I need an account, cookies or a proxy for AlloCiné?** No. The actor reads publicly visible pages only.

**How do I keep a movie calendar up to date?** Save a task for the list you follow (`now-playing`, `this-week` or `coming-soon`) and schedule it daily or weekly with Apify Schedules. Deduplicate on the `id` field if you keep your own copy.

**Which formats can I export?** JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML table or RSS, from the dataset page or through the API.

**Can I connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n or Google Sheets?** Yes, through Apify integrations and webhooks.

**Is it legal to scrape?** The actor collects publicly visible movie listings and respects the robots.txt rules of the site. How you use the data is your responsibility: check the site's terms and the laws that apply to you, for example the GDPR.

**Something does not work?** Open an issue in the Issues tab. Every public actor is test-run daily and the broken ones are repaired.

**Did this save you time?** A short review on the Store page helps other people find the actor, and tells me what to improve next.

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# Actor input Schema

## `list` (type: `string`):

Movies now playing in French cinemas, this week's releases, or the most awaited upcoming movies.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

The run stops once this many movies are saved.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "list": "now-playing",
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `movies` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bibian/allocine-movies-scraper").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bibian/allocine-movies-scraper").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 '{}' |
apify call bibian/allocine-movies-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,bibian/allocine-movies-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/B8QATM4L6vpuYvh6m/builds/dnzZTdstKQkE6yfpW/openapi.json