Metacritic Scraper — Metascores, user scores & reviews
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Scrape Metacritic games, movies and TV shows: Metascore, user score, review counts and sentiment, release date, platforms, genres, developer, publisher and age rating, plus critic and user reviews. Browse with filters or pass title URLs. No API key needed.
You can access the Metacritic Scraper — Metascores, user scores & reviews 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 API & Integrations 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 = {9 "mode": "browse",10 "productType": "games",11 "yearFrom": 2023,12 "yearTo": 2025,13 "startUrls": [14 "https://www.metacritic.com/game/elden-ring/",15 "https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-godfather/",16 "https://www.metacritic.com/tv/breaking-bad/",17 ],18 "maxReviewsPerTitle": 10,19 "maxItems": 20,20}21
22# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish23run = client.actor("istmobot/metacritic-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)24
25# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)26print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")27for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():28 print(item)29
30# 📚 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 Metacritic Scraper — Metascores, user scores & reviews API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: