IMDb Search Scraper
Pricing
$3.00 / 1,000 item returneds
Searches IMDb for movies, TV shows, and people via IMDb's public suggestion API and returns structured rows (IMDb id, title/name, type, year, top cast or known-for, poster URL, imdb.com link). Best for resolving titles or names to IMDb ids.
You can access the IMDb Search Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "query": "breaking bad" }9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish11run = client.actor("dami_studio/imdb-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():16 print(item)17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use IMDb Search Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: