Metacritic Search Scraper 🎮 🎬 📺

Powerful and flexible scraper for extracting search results from Metacritic.com. Get comprehensive data about games, movies, TV shows, and people with ease!

Features ✨

• 🔍 Search across multiple content categories (Games, Movies, TV Shows, People)
• 📑 Automatic pagination handling
• 🔄 Smart scroll detection with end-of-results recognition
• 🛡️ Built-in anti-detection mechanisms
• ⚡ High-performance data extraction
• 🎯 Customizable maximum items limit
• 🌐 Proxy support for reliable scraping

Use Cases 💡

• 🎯 Market research and competitive analysis
• 📊 Content aggregation and curation
• 🔍 Entertainment industry insights
• 📈 Ratings and reviews analysis
• 🎮 Gaming industry research
• 🎬 Movie and TV show data collection

Input Parameters 📝

• keywords: Array of search terms to scrape
• maxItems: Maximum number of items to collect (default: unlimited)
• searchType: Content category to search (13: Games, 2: Movies, 1: TV Shows, 3: People)
• proxyConfiguration: Optional proxy settings for enhanced reliability

Output 📤

The actor outputs detailed information about each search result, including:

• Title
• Release date
• Rating scores
• Platform/Publisher information
• Review counts
• And more metadata specific to each content type

Tips 💡

• Use specific keywords for better results
• Adjust maxItems based on your needs
• Consider using proxies for large-scale scraping
• Different searchTypes will yield different data structures

Need help or have questions? Feel free to reach out! 🤝

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2	"keywords": ["war"],
3    "maxItems": 30,
4    "searchType": 13,
5}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2	{
3		"id": 1300491829,
4		"type": "game-title",
5		"typeId": 13,
6		"title": "Total War: WARHAMMER II - Curse of the Vampire Coast",
7		"slug": "total-war-warhammer-ii-curse-of-the-vampire-coast",
8		"images": [],
9		"criticScoreSummary": {
10			"url": "/game/total-war-warhammer-ii-curse-of-the-vampire-coast/critic-reviews/",
11			"score": 83
12		},
13		"rating": "",
14		"releaseDate": "2018-11-08",
15		"premiereYear": 2018,
16		"genres": [
17			{
18				"id": null,
19				"name": "Real-Time Tactics"
20			}
21		],
22		"platforms": [
23			{
24				"id": null,
25				"name": "PC"
26			}
27		],
28		"seasonCount": 0,
29		"description": "Night falls on Lustria. As you stand on the dock and peer seawards through the gathering mists, strain your ears. The jungle sounds behind you fade, and in their place comes a wet thudding, as of rotten rigging against a mouldy mast. The sound multiplies, and with it, the groan of a thousand breathless voices, joined in something part-shanty, part-dirge. Dread prows pierce the gloom ahead, and the ghastly truth is laid bare: upon the ghoul-winds come the swollen hulks and decaying vessels of the Vampire Coast! Run now – run hard and fast. For it is all you can do.\r\n",
30		"duration": null,
31		"mustSee": false,
32		"mustWatch": false,
33		"mustPlay": false
34	},
35    ...
36]

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