🍅 Rotten Tomatoes Scraper

🚀 Export Tomatometer scores, audience ratings, cast, and streaming info from Rotten Tomatoes in seconds. No API key required.

The Rotten Tomatoes Scraper lets you extract structured data from Rotten Tomatoes browse pages - movies and TV shows with Tomatometer scores, audience scores, critics consensus, genre, cast, director, runtime, content rating, and streaming availability. All data is scraped in real-time from Rotten Tomatoes' public interface.

Browse the most popular, newest, or top-rated titles across both movies and TV shows. Each record includes full detail-page data: critics consensus text, full cast list, streaming services where you can watch it today, and more.

Coverage

• Movies: Popular, Newest, Top Rated (Box Office)
• TV Shows: Popular, Newest, Top Rated series
• 17 fields per record including scores, cast, streaming services
• Real-time - data reflects current Rotten Tomatoes scores

Target Audience / Use Cases

Who	What they use it for
Film researchers	Track critic vs. audience score divergences over time
Streaming analysts	Identify which services carry top-rated content
Content creators	Build watchlists and recommendation engines
Data journalists	Cover trends in Hollywood critic reception
Developers	Power movie recommendation apps and databases
Entertainment businesses	Competitive analysis of streaming catalogs

📋 What the Rotten Tomatoes Scraper does

• Scrapes the browse/discovery pages for movies or TV shows
• Retrieves Tomatometer (critics) and Audience Score for each title
• Extracts the critics consensus summary text
• Pulls cast, director, genre, content rating, and runtime from detail pages
• Collects streaming service availability (Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, etc.)
• Paginates automatically to collect up to 1,000,000 items

💡 Why it matters: Rotten Tomatoes scores are the gold standard for film criticism. Researchers, developers, and content teams use them to benchmark quality, study audience vs. critic alignment, and build smarter recommendation systems.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: audienceScore, director, genre, imageUrl, rating, results, runtime, streamingServices, title, tomatoScore, type, url, year. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account (includes $5 credit)
2. Open the Rotten Tomatoes Scraper actor page
3. Set browseType to "movies" or "tv"
4. Choose a sortBy option: popular, newest, or top_rated
5. Set maxItems to limit the number of results (free: 10, paid: up to 1,000,000)
6. Click "Start" and wait a few seconds
7. Download your dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel

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Disclaimer: This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Rotten Tomatoes or Fandango Media. All data is publicly available on the Rotten Tomatoes website. Use responsibly and in accordance with Rotten Tomatoes' Terms of Service.

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