🎬 IMDb Data Scraper 🔥

Extract movie, TV show, and celebrity information from IMDb with ease!

IMDb Data Scraper is an Apify Actor for extracting structured movie metadata, TV series information, celebrity profiles, upcoming releases, and popular titles from IMDb.

Search by movie name, release year, or IMDb ID. Retrieve celebrity profiles by name or IMDb ID, and discover upcoming and popular movies and TV shows by region or genre.

Whether you're building a movie database, conducting entertainment research, developing an application, or collecting movie and TV metadata, this Actor makes IMDb data extraction straightforward.

✨ Features

• 🔎 Search Movies & TV Shows by Name: Retrieve detailed information using a title, optional release year, and TV-series indicator.
• 🆔 Search by IMDb ID: Fetch movie and TV show details using IMDb IDs for precise results.
• 👤 Celebrity & Person Profiles: Retrieve profiles of actors, directors, and other entertainment personalities using their names or IMDb IDs.
• 🎥 Upcoming Movies & TV Shows: Discover upcoming releases globally or for a specific country.
• 🌟 Popular Movies: Retrieve popular movies across all genres or filter by a specific genre.
• 📺 Popular TV Series: Discover popular TV shows across all genres or filter by genre.
• 📦 Structured JSON Output: Receive organized results in a consistent six-field JSON structure.

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🛠️ Input Schema

All input fields are optional. You can provide one or multiple input categories depending on your requirements.

1. Search by Name — movie_names

Search for movies and TV shows using their names.

Optional properties:

• movie_name: Movie or TV show title.
• release_year: Release year (recommended for movies).
• tv: Set to true when searching for a TV series.

Example:

{
  "movie_names": [
    {
      "movie_name": "Bullet Train",
      "release_year": 2022
    },
    {
      "movie_name": "Reacher",
      "tv": true
    }
  ]
}

2. Search by IMDb ID — movie_ids

Retrieve movie or TV show information using IMDb IDs.

Example:

{
  "movie_ids": [
    "tt1375666",
    "tt0133093",
    "tt0468569"
  ]
}

3. Celebrity Profiles — persons

Retrieve celebrity profiles using a person's name or IMDb person ID.

Example:

{
  "persons": [
    "nm0000138",
    "Leonardo DiCaprio",
    "Shah Rukh Khan"
  ]
}

4. Upcoming Movies & TV Shows — upcoming

Retrieve upcoming releases by country or globally.

Input	Description
"iso"	Disabled (default)
"all"	All regions
"us"	United States
"gb"	United Kingdom
"in"	India
"de"	Germany
"fr"	France
"ca"	Canada
"jp"	Japan
"au"	Australia
"it"	Italy

Example:

{
  "upcoming": "us"
}

5. Popular Movies — popular_movies_genre

Retrieve popular movies by genre.

Supported values include:

all, animation, action, comedy, drama, horror, thriller, romance, sci-fi, fantasy, crime, adventure, mystery, and documentary.

Use "all" to retrieve popular movies across all genres.

Example:

{
  "popular_movies_genre": "action"
}

6. Popular TV Series — popular_tv_genre

Retrieve popular TV shows by genre.

The same genre options are supported as for popular movies.

Example:

{
  "popular_tv_genre": "drama"
}

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📥 Complete Example Input

You can combine multiple input categories in a single Actor run.

{
  "movie_names": [
    {
      "movie_name": "Inception",
      "release_year": 2010
    },
    {
      "movie_name": "Reacher",
      "tv": true
    }
  ],
  "movie_ids": [
    "tt1375666",
    "tt0133093"
  ],
  "persons": [
    "Leonardo DiCaprio",
    "nm0000138"
  ],
  "upcoming": "us",
  "popular_movies_genre": "action",
  "popular_tv_genre": "thriller"
}

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📤 Output Structure

The Actor produces structured JSON output containing the following six fields:

Field Name	Description
movie_by_name_results	Movie and TV show details retrieved by name.
movie_by_imdb_id_results	Movie and TV show details retrieved by IMDb ID.
person_search_results	Celebrity and person profiles retrieved by name or ID.
upcoming_movies	Upcoming movie and TV show results.
popular_movies	Popular movie results by genre.
popular_tv	Popular TV show results by genre.

Example Output Structure

{
  "movie_by_name_results": [],
  "movie_by_imdb_id_results": [],
  "person_search_results": [],
  "upcoming_movies": [],
  "popular_movies": [],
  "popular_tv": []
}

Each field contains the results corresponding to its input category. Discovery results retain their original response structure, including their result metadata and results array.

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🚀 How to Use

1. Open IMDb Data Scraper 🔥 on Apify.
2. Navigate to the Input tab.
3. Fill in the input fields relevant to your requirements.
4. Click Start to run the Actor.
5. Once execution finishes, open the Dataset tab.
6. View or download your extracted data in JSON or another supported format.

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💡 Use Cases

• 🎬 Building movie and TV show databases.
• 📊 Entertainment industry research and analysis.
• 👤 Collecting celebrity and actor profile information.
• 🎥 Discovering upcoming movie and TV releases.
• 🌟 Tracking popular movies and TV shows by genre.
• 💻 Enriching applications with movie and TV metadata.
• 🔍 Movie cataloguing and entertainment data analysis.

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Start extracting IMDb movie, TV show, and celebrity data with IMDb Data Scraper 🔥!