🎮 Metacritic Scraper - Games, Movies & TV Scores

🚀 Export Metacritic scores, reviews, and metadata in seconds. No API key required - just run and download.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-21 · 📊 12 fields per record · Thousands of titles · Games, Movies & TV

Metacritic is the web's most trusted aggregator of critic and user reviews for games, movies, and TV shows. This actor extracts structured data from Metacritic browse pages - Metascores, user scores, genres, descriptions, release dates, and more - without requiring any credentials or API keys.

Coverage spans all Metacritic titles across games (all platforms), movies, and TV shows. With over 925+ games just from 2024-2025, the full database contains tens of thousands of records across all categories.

Who uses it	What they do
Game developers	Track competitor scores and genre trends
Publishers	Monitor user vs. critic score discrepancies
Journalists	Research score history for articles
Researchers	Analyze entertainment review data
Deal sites	Find top-rated games/movies
Recommendation engines	Build score-based recommendation datasets

📋 What the Metacritic Scraper does

• Scrapes games, movies, or TV shows by media type
• Sorts results by Metascore (highest-rated first)
• Filters by platform (PS5, Xbox, PC, Nintendo Switch, etc.)
• Filters by minimum Metascore threshold
• Paginates through all results automatically
• Exports Metascore, user score, genre, release date, description, and more
• Includes direct Metacritic URLs for every record

💡 Why it matters: Metacritic scores directly influence purchasing decisions for millions of consumers and business decisions for publishers. Getting structured score data at scale requires this kind of automated extraction.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
maxItems	Integer	Maximum number of items to scrape	10
mediaType	Select	game, movie, or tv	game
platform	Text	Filter games by platform slug (ps5, xbox-series-x, pc, nintendo-switch)	-
minMetascore	Integer	Only return items scoring at or above this value (0-100)	-

Example - Top PS5 games:

{
  "maxItems": 50,
  "mediaType": "game",
  "platform": "ps5"
}

Example - Best movies with score 90+:

{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "mediaType": "movie",
  "minMetascore": 90
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Platform filtering only applies to games. For movies and TV, leave platform blank. Results are sorted by Metascore descending by default.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🖼️ imageUrl	String	Cover image URL
📌 title	String	Game, movie, or TV show title
🏷️ type	String	Media type: game, movie, or tv
🎮 platform	String	Platform when platform filter is applied
⭐ metascore	Number	Critic Metascore (0-100)
👥 userscore	Number	User Score (0.0-10.0)
📅 releaseDate	String	Release date (YYYY-MM-DD)
🎭 genre	String	Primary genre
📝 description	String	Synopsis or description
🔗 url	String	Metacritic URL
🕒 scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp
❌ error	String	Error message if applicable

Sample record:

{
  "imageUrl": "https://www.metacritic.com/a/img/resize/catalog/provider/6/3/6-1-4763-13.jpg?auto=webp&fit=cover&height=300&quality=80&width=200",
  "title": "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time",
  "type": "game",
  "platform": null,
  "metascore": 99,
  "userscore": 9.1,
  "releaseDate": "1998-11-23",
  "genre": "Open-World Action",
  "description": "As a young boy, Link is tricked by Ganondorf, the King of the Gerudo Thieves...",
  "url": "https://www.metacritic.com/game/the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-21T23:57:06.258Z"
}

Second sample (movie):

{
  "imageUrl": "https://www.metacritic.com/a/img/resize/catalog/provider/2/2/2-dd018c5d82b77507bdac403f5f7c217b.jpg?auto=webp&fit=cover&height=300&quality=80&width=200",
  "title": "The Conformist",
  "type": "movie",
  "platform": null,
  "metascore": 100,
  "userscore": 7.8,
  "releaseDate": "1970-10-22",
  "genre": "Drama",
  "description": "Set in Rome in the 1930s, this re-release of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 breakthrough feature...",
  "url": "https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-conformist-re-release/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-21T23:57:06.258Z"
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

Feature	Details
🌐 No login needed	Fully public data extraction
⚡ Fast SSR parsing	Reads Nuxt.js server-side data directly
🎮 All media types	Games, movies, and TV shows
🔍 Smart filtering	Platform, score threshold, and pagination
📦 Clean output	12 structured fields per record
🛡️ Cloudflare-resilient	Uses real browser rendering

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Feature	This Actor	Manual scraping	Other tools
All media types	✅	Partial	Partial
Platform filtering	✅	Manual	Rarely
Metascore + Userscore	✅	Manual	Sometimes
Pagination support	✅	Complex	Varies
Real-time data	✅	Yes	Varies
No setup required	✅	No	Varies

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Search for Metacritic Scraper in the Apify Store
3. Configure your input (media type, max items, optional filters)
4. Click Start and wait for results
5. Download as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML

💼 Business use cases

🎮 Game Industry

Track Metascores for competitive intelligence. Compare first-party vs. third-party title performance. Identify which platforms and genres score highest.

🎬 Entertainment & Media

Build recommendation engines using critic + user score data. Analyze score trends over time. Identify hidden gems (high user scores, lower critic scores).

📊 Market Research

Score data reveals consumer sentiment at scale. Cross-reference with sales data. Study genre popularity through release cadence.

🤖 Data Science

Train recommendation models on labeled review data. Study critic-audience alignment. Build scoring prediction models.

🔌 Automating Metacritic Scraper

Connect to your workflows via Apify integrations:

• Make (Integromat) - trigger scraping on a schedule, pipe to Google Sheets
• Zapier - push results to Airtable, Notion, or Slack
• Slack - get daily top-rated game alerts
• Google Sheets - maintain a live score database
• Webhooks - trigger downstream APIs when new data arrives

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🔬 Academic Research

Study the relationship between critic consensus and commercial success. Analyze how platform exclusivity affects review scores.

🎨 Creative Projects

Build score-based recommendation bots. Create data visualizations of gaming history.

🌍 Non-profit & Education

Gaming history preservation. Educational datasets for media studies courses.

🧪 Experimentation

Test recommendation algorithms. Build personal game backlog trackers.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Does this require a Metacritic account?

No. All data is publicly available on Metacritic without login.

❓ How many results can I get?

Free users: up to 10 items. Paid users: up to 1,000,000 items.

❓ What platforms are supported for game filtering?

Common values: ps5, xbox-series-x, pc, nintendo-switch, nintendo-switch-2, ps4, xbox-one. Use the slug format shown in Metacritic URLs.

❓ How is data sorted?

Results are sorted by Metascore descending (highest-rated first).

❓ How current is the data?

Data is scraped in real-time from Metacritic. There is no caching.

❓ Can I filter by release year?

Not directly in the input - the actor scrapes all-time top results by default. For year filtering, use releaseDate in post-processing.

❓ Why is platform null when I don't filter?

The Metacritic browse page shows all-platform results without indicating individual platforms per title. Use the platform input to filter by a specific platform.

❓ Does this scrape individual review text?

Not at this time. It extracts aggregate scores and metadata from browse pages.

❓ What's the difference between Metascore and User Score?

Metascore is a weighted average of professional critic reviews (0-100). User Score is an average of user-submitted reviews (0-10 scale, shown as 0-10).

❓ How fast does it scrape?

Approximately 24 items per page load, ~3-5 seconds per page. For 100 items: ~20-25 seconds.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify supports integrations with: Zapier, Make, n8n, Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, Discord, Notion, Monday.com, HubSpot, Salesforce, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, REST APIs, and more via webhooks.

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This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Metacritic or CBS Interactive. It scrapes publicly available data in accordance with standard web data extraction practices. Use responsibly and review Metacritic's terms of service before use in commercial applications.