TMDB TV Shows Scraper 📺

This actor fetches TV show information from TMDB (The Movie Database), one of the most comprehensive movie and TV show databases. It can either retrieve trending shows or search for specific TV series based on your query.

🎯 Use Cases

• Content aggregation for streaming platforms
• TV show analytics and trend analysis
• Media research and data collection
• Entertainment website content automation
• TV show recommendation systems

✨ Features

• 🔥 Fetch trending TV shows
• 🔍 Search for specific TV series
• 🖼️ Get show poster images
• ⭐ Detailed ratings and popularity metrics
• 📅 First air date information
• 🌍 Original language and country data
• 📊 Comprehensive show metadata

🔢 Output

The actor provides detailed information for each TV show, including:

• Show ID and name
• Plot overview
• Poster image URL
• Vote average and count
• First air date
• Popularity score
• Original language and country
• Content rating (adult/non-adult)
• Media type

💡 Tips

• Use the 'trending' mode to discover popular shows
• Search mode supports partial show names
• Results include high-quality poster images suitable for web display
• All data is sourced directly from TMDB's official API

📝 Input Configuration

The actor accepts two input parameters:

• mode: Choose between 'trending' or 'search' modes
• searchQuery: Enter your search term when using search mode

📊 Output Format

Results are stored in JSON format, making it easy to process and integrate with other systems.

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

{ 
 	"searchQuery": "007",
    "mode": "search",
    "maxResults": 40
}

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.

[
	{
		"id": 225385,
		"name": "Black Doves",
		"overview": "When a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.",
		"posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200/2eZNjPQ9f0TQDHpsL2Ecktsv5v6.jpg",
		"voteAverage": 7.66,
		"voteCount": 47,
		"firstAirDate": "2024-12-05",
		"popularity": 458.479,
		"originalLanguage": "en",
		"originalCountry": "GB",
		"adult": false,
		"mediaType": "tv"
	},
    ...
]