# 🚀 Metacritic Reviews Scraper · 5,000 Free Reviews/Month (`omkar-cloud/metacritic-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Metacritic Reviews Scraper gets you critic & user reviews ⚡ fast, 🎯 100% accurate and 🔍 ridiculously detailed — quote, score, publication, author & date for any game, movie or TV show. 💰 $1 per 1,000 reviews, no start fee. Scrape your first 5,000 reviews free every month 🚀

- **URL**: https://apify.com/omkar-cloud/metacritic-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Omkar Cloud](https://apify.com/omkar-cloud) (community)
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 review scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Metacritic Reviews Scraper

Metacritic Reviews Scraper by Omkar Cloud gets you 🎯 accurate, 🔍 detailed Metacritic critic and user reviews.

Metacritic uses Cloudflare bot protection to stop you from getting its data.

Metacritic Reviews Scraper beats it, so you get the data, and can successfully complete your project.

**$1 per 1,000 reviews.** And with Apify's free plan you get $5 of credit every month, so your first **~5,000 reviews each month are free**.

This is an excellent Actor made by Omkar Cloud, which is Rated Excellent — [4.7 based on 30 reviews on Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/omkar.cloud).

👉 [**Try Metacritic Reviews Scraper free**](https://apify.com/omkar-cloud/metacritic-reviews-scraper) — your first ~5,000 reviews are Free.

### What can I get

- 📰 **Every critic review** — quote, score out of 100, publication, critic, date and the link to the full review, for any game, movie or TV show
- 👥 **Every user review** — quote, score out of 10, username, date, platform and spoiler flag — thousands per popular title
- 🎮 **Per platform & per season** — a game's reviews on PS5, PC, Switch or Xbox, or one TV season's reviews on their own
- 🏛️ **Whole publication feeds** — every review IGN, The New York Times or any outlet ever wrote on Metacritic, newest or highest scored first

### Why Metacritic Reviews Scraper

Most other Metacritic scrapers fail you in one of four ways:

- 🗄️ **Inaccurate, cached, stale data**
- 🧩 **Low-detail data** — a handful of review snippets, never the full list, the platform or the critic
- 💸 **Pay more to get the same data** — start fees, tiers and paid "enrichment" events
- 🪦 **Works today, breaks next month** — nobody maintains it

Metacritic Reviews Scraper is scraped live on every run, priced honestly, and actively maintained.

### Example: Metacritic Reviews of Oppenheimer

```json
[
  {
    "review_type": "critic",
    "title_type": "movie",
    "title_slug": "oppenheimer",
    "title_link": "https://www.metacritic.com/movie/oppenheimer/",
    "quote": "It’s powerful, a technically dazzling achievement; so audacious is Nolan’s filmmaking that if it didn’t serve the story you’d think at times he was just showing off. He’s not.",
    "score": 100,
    "date": "2023-07-19",
    "link": "http://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/movies/billgoodykoontz/2023/07/19/oppenheimer-movie-review/70408249007/",
    "publication": { "name": "Arizona Republic", "slug": "arizona-republic", "link": "https://www.metacritic.com/publication/arizona-republic/" },
    "author": { "name": "Bill Goodykoontz", "slug": "bill-goodykoontz" }
  },
  {
    "review_type": "user",
    "title_type": "movie",
    "title_slug": "oppenheimer",
    "title_link": "https://www.metacritic.com/movie/oppenheimer/",
    "id": "d10f0ff2-1053-49fc-95df-e1d7a1186500",
    "quote": "Fascinating movie and Christopher Nolan's MASTERPIECE. One of My 2023 Favorite Movies.",
    "score": 10,
    "date": "2026-07-18",
    "author": { "username": "PatFlores2003", "link": "https://www.metacritic.com/user/PatFlores2003/" },
    "is_spoiler": false
  }
]
```

*Trimmed for readability.*

### Get Started with 5,000 Free Reviews

1. [Hit **Try for Free Button**](https://apify.com/omkar-cloud/metacritic-reviews-scraper) — the input is pre-filled with Oppenheimer and Elden Ring.
2. Enjoy your data 😎.

### Pricing

High value, Low price.

| What | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| **Critic & user reviews** | **$1 per 1,000** | Quote, score, date, publication & critic or username, platform, spoiler flag, link to the full critic review + the title, season or publication it came from |

No start fee — you pay only for the reviews you get. Control your spend with **Max Reviews per Title**: 1,000 reviews ≈ $1.

💡 Apify's free plan includes $5 of credit every month — about **5,000 free reviews, every month**.

👉 [**Scrape your first 5,000 reviews free**](https://apify.com/omkar-cloud/metacritic-reviews-scraper)

### Run It from Code

Grab your API token from [Integrations Settings here](https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations) and replace `<YOUR_API_TOKEN>` below.

**Python** (`pip install apify-client`)

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("omkar-cloud/metacritic-reviews-scraper").call(run_input={
    "titles": ["movie/oppenheimer", "game/elden-ring"],
    "reviewTypes": ["critic", "user"],
    "sentiment": "negative",
    "maxReviewsPerTitle": 200,
})
for review in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(review["title_slug"], review["review_type"], review["score"], review["quote"][:80])
```

**Node.js** (`npm install apify-client`)

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('omkar-cloud/metacritic-reviews-scraper').call({
    titles: ['https://www.metacritic.com/tv/silicon-valley/season-1/', 'https://www.metacritic.com/publication/ign/'],
    sort: 'date',
    maxReviewsPerTitle: 100,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);
```

### FAQ

#### How do I enter a title?

As `movie/<slug>`, `tv/<slug>` or `game/<slug>` — the slug is the part of the metacritic.com URL after `/movie/`, `/tv/` or `/game/` — or paste the link itself. A bare slug is skipped, because the same slug can be a movie and a game.

#### How many reviews can I get?

All of them. The Actor keeps paging until it has **Max Reviews per Title** reviews or Metacritic runs out — popular games carry 6,000+ user reviews, and IGN alone has 18,000+ critic reviews on Metacritic. Critic and user reviews count separately, so a title with both types can give twice the limit.

#### Can I get one platform's or one season's reviews?

Yes. Set **Game Platform** (`ps5`, `pc`, `switch`, `xbox-series-x`…) or paste a game link with `?platform=pc` for that platform's reviews. Paste a season link (`/tv/silicon-valley/season-1/`) for that season's critic and user reviews.

#### Can I filter by sentiment?

Yes — positive, mixed or negative, for titles and seasons. Sort by Metacritic's default (critics highest score first, users newest first), newest first or highest score first.

#### Is the data live?

Yes. Every run fetches Metacritic live — a review posted this morning is in your dataset.

#### What does it cost?

$0.001 per review — $1 per 1,000, flat on every plan, with no start fee. Reviews found twice in one run are billed once. Apify's free plan gives you $5 of credit every month, which is 5,000 reviews free every month.

#### Is it legal to scrape Metacritic?

The Actor collects publicly available reviews — quotes, scores, dates and the public names of critics and reviewers. Please review Metacritic's terms of use and make sure your use complies with the law of your jurisdiction.

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# Actor input Schema

## `titles` (type: `array`):

One per line: `movie/<slug>`, `tv/<slug>` or `game/<slug>` (`movie/oppenheimer`, `tv/silicon-valley`, `game/elden-ring`), or a pasted metacritic.com link. A TV season link (`https://www.metacritic.com/tv/silicon-valley/season-1/`) scrapes that season's reviews; a game link with `?platform=pc` scrapes that platform's reviews; a publication link (`https://www.metacritic.com/publication/ign/`) scrapes every review that outlet wrote.

## `reviewTypes` (type: `array`):

Critic reviews (publications' scores out of 100), user reviews (members' scores out of 10), or both. Publication links always give critic reviews.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Order of the reviews. Default is Metacritic's own: critics highest score first, users newest first.

## `sentiment` (type: `string`):

Only positive, mixed or negative reviews (titles and seasons; publication feeds are unfiltered).

## `platform` (type: `string`):

Games only: scrape the reviews of this platform (`ps5`, `pc`, `switch`, `xbox-series-x`…). Leave empty for Metacritic's main platform. A `?platform=` in a pasted link wins.

## `maxReviewsPerTitle` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of reviews to scrape per title and review type (and per publication). Use this to control your cost (1,000 reviews ≈ $1). Popular titles have thousands of user reviews.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "titles": [
    "movie/oppenheimer",
    "game/elden-ring"
  ],
  "reviewTypes": [
    "critic",
    "user"
  ],
  "sort": "default",
  "sentiment": "all",
  "maxReviewsPerTitle": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "titles": [
        "movie/oppenheimer",
        "game/elden-ring"
    ],
    "maxReviewsPerTitle": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("omkar-cloud/metacritic-reviews-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "titles": [
        "movie/oppenheimer",
        "game/elden-ring",
    ],
    "maxReviewsPerTitle": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("omkar-cloud/metacritic-reviews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "titles": [
    "movie/oppenheimer",
    "game/elden-ring"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerTitle": 100
}' |
apify call omkar-cloud/metacritic-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,omkar-cloud/metacritic-reviews-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/evFkBGoSwzuDFRF9Q/builds/lTAyRfSrdVg0WkIFU/openapi.json