Metacritic Scraper

Get Metacritic critic scores and review breakdowns for games, movies and TV shows at scale, no login or API key. Search titles by name or fetch them by slug, and every title comes back as one clean row with the Metascore, sentiment wording, the positive / neutral / negative review split, user score, genres, platforms, companies and release date.

What it does

• Games, movies and TV - pick the media type and search across that catalog.
• Critic score with the breakdown - not just the Metascore, but how many reviews were positive, neutral and negative, plus the sentiment wording (for example "Universal acclaim").
• Direct slugs - fetch specific titles you already know.
• Rich metadata - genres, platforms, production companies, developers, publishers, rating, runtime and release date.

Common uses: media and games market research, review-trend tracking, building a ratings dataset, and enriching a catalog with critic scores.

Input

Field	Type	Description
mediaType	string	game, movie, or tv.
searchQueries	array	Titles to search. Example: elden ring.
slugs	array	Fetch specific titles by slug. Example: elden-ring.
includeDetails	boolean	Fetch the full record per match. Default true.
maxItemsPerSource	integer	Cap per search. Default 10, up to 50.
concurrency	integer	Titles enriched in parallel. Default 4.
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional. Works without a proxy.

At least one of searchQueries or slugs is required.

Example input

{
  "mediaType": "game",
  "searchQueries": ["elden ring", "hades"],
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItemsPerSource": 10
}

Output

Each item is one title.

{
  "mediaType": "game",
  "id": 123456,
  "title": "Elden Ring",
  "slug": "elden-ring",
  "kind": "game-title",
  "criticScore": 96,
  "sentiment": "Universal acclaim",
  "reviewCount": 93,
  "positiveCount": 86,
  "neutralCount": 7,
  "negativeCount": 0,
  "userScore": 7.8,
  "mustSee": true,
  "releaseDate": "2022-02-25",
  "premiereYear": 2022,
  "rating": "M",
  "duration": null,
  "seasonCount": null,
  "genres": ["Action RPG"],
  "platforms": ["PC", "PlayStation 5", "Xbox Series X"],
  "companies": ["Example Publisher"],
  "developers": ["Example Studio"],
  "publishers": ["Example Publisher"],
  "description": "A vast world where open fields with a variety of situations...",
  "image": "https://example.com/cover.jpg",
  "url": "https://www.metacritic.com/games/elden-ring/",
  "detailFetched": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-19T09:00:00.000Z"
}

Titles with no critic score yet (unreleased or unreviewed) return null for score fields, so the shape is always the same.

Notes

• No login and no API key. Pick a media type, set your titles, and run.
• Turn off includeDetails for a faster search-only run when you just need titles and scores.
• The review split is the useful signal: two titles can share a Metascore with very different consensus.

Privacy

To improve our actors we collect anonymized usage telemetry (run stats and input patterns). No personal account data is collected.