🎬 TMDB Movies, TV Shows and People Scraper

🚀 Pull movies, TV shows, and people with cast, crew, trailer, watch providers, ratings, IMDB and Wikidata links across 12 modes.

The TMDB Movies, TV Shows and People Scraper pulls rich entertainment metadata for movies, TV series, and people from The Movie Database. Output includes title, poster, backdrop, overview, runtime, certification, genres, keywords, cast (top 20 with character + photo), directors, writers, producers, trailer URL, watch providers (flatrate / rent / buy + link), spoken languages, production companies + countries, budget, revenue, IMDB ID, Facebook / Instagram / X IDs, and per-record poster + backdrop galleries.

Twelve modes in one Actor: search movies, TV, people, multi-search, popular movies, popular TV, top-rated movies, top-rated TV, now playing, upcoming, trending day, and trending week. Detail enrichment runs automatically per record. The dataset draws from TMDB, the canonical open community-maintained movie database used by Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, Stremio and many more.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Streaming UIs, recommendation engines, journalists, fan apps, ML datasets, cinephile communities, content marketing teams	Movie + TV recommender training, content marketing, what-to-watch tools, retrospectives and best-of lists, analytics dashboards, ML embeddings

📋 What the TMDB Movies, TV Shows and People Scraper does

Five filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Search modes. Movies, TV, people, multi (mixed media).
• 🔥 Browse modes. Popular, top-rated, now playing, upcoming.
• 📈 Trending. Day and week trending across all media types.
• 🎭 Cast + crew + trailer. Top 20 cast with photos, directors, writers, producers, YouTube trailer.
• 🎯 Watch providers. Flatrate, rent, and buy services per region.

💡 Why it matters: clean, server-side filtering and fresh data on every run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: genresText, mediaType, originalLanguage, popularity, posterUrl, releaseDate, runtime, title, tmdbUrl, voteAverage, voteCount. 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. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Find the TMDB Movies, TV Shows and People Scraper on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick filters and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start.
5. 📥 Download. Grab results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The Movie Database (TMDB), JustWatch, IMDB, or any production studio or distributor. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.

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