Metacritic Scraper

Metacritic Scraper by Omkar Cloud gets you 🎯 accurate, 🔍 detailed Metacritic game, movie and TV data.

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

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

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What can I get

• 🔎 Search 215K+ games, movies & TV shows — Metascore, user score, release date, rating, genres, platforms, poster & the metacritic.com link, or search people by name
• 🏆 Every Metacritic list — top rated of all time or of any year, new releases, upcoming, in theaters, trending and the full browse catalogue, filtered by genre, platform, streaming network and minimum Metascore
• 🎬 Full title pages on demand — both score breakdowns, cast & crew, studios, developers & publishers, awards, trailer, IMDb id, the best positive, mixed and negative reviews, related titles & news — and for games every platform's own Metascore, retailer prices and player stats
• 🔗 Any metacritic.com URL — paste movie, TV or game links (even ?platform=pc) and get the full page back

Why Metacritic Scraper

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

• 🗄️ Inaccurate, cached, stale data
• 🧩 Low-detail data — a title and a score, never the cast, awards, reviews or per-platform scores
• 💸 Pay more to get the same data — start fees, tiers and paid "enrichment" events
• 🪦 Works today, breaks next month — nobody maintains it

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

Example: A Full Metacritic Movie

{
  "source": "url",
  "id": 2000556373,
  "type": "movie",
  "title": "Oppenheimer",
  "slug": "oppenheimer",
  "link": "https://www.metacritic.com/movie/oppenheimer/",
  "tagline": "The World Forever Changes",
  "release_date": "2023-07-21",
  "rating": "R",
  "duration_minutes": 180,
  "genres": ["Biography", "Drama", "History"],
  "image": "https://www.metacritic.com/a/img/catalog/provider/2/2/2-4d89ba358a1e5962a85eb8fc179d0388.jpg",
  "metascore": { "score": 90, "max": 100, "review_count": 69, "positive_count": 67, "neutral_count": 2, "negative_count": 0, "sentiment": "Universal acclaim" },
  "user_score": { "score": 8.4, "max": 10, "review_count": 2275, "positive_count": 1995, "neutral_count": 150, "negative_count": 130, "sentiment": "Universal acclaim" },
  "awards": [
    { "event": "Academy Awards, USA", "wins_count": 7, "nominations_count": 13 }
  ],
  "cast": [
    { "name": "Cillian Murphy", "roles": ["J. Robert Oppenheimer"], "link": "https://www.metacritic.com/person/cillian-murphy/" }
  ],
  "crew": [
    { "name": "Christopher Nolan", "roles": ["Director"], "group": "Directed By" }
  ],
  "critic_reviews": {
    "review_count": 69,
    "featured": [
      {
        "quote": "Christopher Nolan deserves every superlative for his brilliant take on J. Robert Oppenheimer (a flawless Cillian Murphy), the dark knight of the atomic age.",
        "score": 100,
        "date": "2023-07-21",
        "publication": { "name": "ABC News", "slug": "abc-news" },
        "author": { "name": "Peter Travers", "slug": "peter-travers" }
      }
    ]
  },
  "imdb_id": "tt15398776",
  "video": { "title": "Oppenheimer: Atmosphere (UK Spot)", "stream_link": "https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/344YnWRS.m3u8" }
}

Trimmed for readability. Rows without "Scrape Full Title Pages" carry the title card — id, type, title, slug, link, release date, rating, description, genres, poster, metascore, user_score and, for games, platforms.

Get Started with 5,000 Free Titles

1. Hit Try for Free Button — the input is pre-filled with a "zelda" search and the Oppenheimer page.
2. Enjoy your data 😎.

Pricing

High value, Low price.

What	Price	What you get
Standard titles	$1 per 1,000	Id, type, title, slug, release date, rating, description, genres, poster, Metascore & user score, platforms for games + the Metacritic link and the search or list it came from
Detailed titles	$2 per 1,000	Everything above + both full score breakdowns, cast & crew, studios, developers & publishers, awards, trailer, IMDb id, the best critic & user reviews, related titles & news, per-platform Metascores, retailer prices and player stats for games
People rows	$1 per 1,000	One row per person found by a people search

No start fee — you pay only for the rows you get. Control your spend with Max Results per Query: 1,000 titles ≈ $1.

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

👉 Scrape your first 5,000 titles free

Run It from Code

Grab your API token from Integrations Settings here and replace <YOUR_API_TOKEN> below.

Python (pip install apify-client)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("omkar-cloud/metacritic-scraper").call(run_input={
    "queries": ["zelda"],
    "searchType": "game",
    "scrapeDetails": True,
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 10,
})
for title in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(title["title"], title["release_date"], title["metascore"]["score"], title["user_score"]["score"])

Node.js (npm install apify-client)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('omkar-cloud/metacritic-scraper').call({
    lists: ['top_rated'],
    listTypes: ['game'],
    year: 2025,
    platforms: ['ps5', 'pc'],
    maxResultsPerQuery: 100,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

FAQ

How many titles do I get per search or list?

The Actor keeps paging (50 titles a page) until it has Max Results per Query titles or Metacritic runs out. Lists go thousands deep — the game catalogue alone holds 178K+ titles, 14K+ of them with a Metascore. Titles found twice in a run — the same game under two searches, or in a search and a list — are scraped and billed only once.

What does "Scrape Full Title Pages" add?

The whole title page on top of the card: metascore and user_score with positive / mixed / negative counts and sentiment, tagline, cast and crew with roles, companies, awards, the video trailer, imdb_id, critic_reviews and user_reviews highlights (featured, positive, mixed, negative), related_titles and related_news — and for games platforms with each platform's own Metascore, developers, publishers, franchises, where_to_buy retailer prices and GameFAQs player_stats. Pasted title URLs are always scraped in full; a game URL with ?platform=pc gets that platform's scores.

Which lists can I scrape?

Top rated (all-time, or of the Year you set), New releases (newest reviewed titles), Upcoming (not out yet, soonest first), In theaters (movies), Trending (this week's movies and TV) and Browse (every title, sorted by Metascore, user score, popularity or release date, with a year window). Filter by genre, game platform (PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2, PC…), streaming network (Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, Disney+…) and minimum Metascore.

Can I get every review?

Every detailed row carries the featured, positive, mixed and negative critic and user reviews Metacritic highlights. For every review of a title — paginated, filterable by sentiment and platform — use the Metacritic Reviews Scraper.

Is the data live?

Yes. Every run fetches Metacritic live — Metascores, user scores, review counts and prices are as fresh as the site itself.

What does it cost?

$0.001 per title — $1 per 1,000, flat on every plan, with no start fee. Full title pages add $0.001 per title ($2 per 1,000 all in), charged only when the page comes back — if it can't be fetched you keep the card at the standard rate. People rows cost the standard rate. Apify's free plan gives you $5 of credit every month, which is 5,000 titles or 2,500 fully-detailed titles free every month.

Is it legal to scrape Metacritic?

The Actor collects publicly available title data — scores, credits, review quotes and posters — without personal information beyond the public names of cast, crew, 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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