📺 TVmaze TV Schedule Scraper

🚀 Export daily TV schedules, show catalogs, and people records in seconds. Pull airing episodes, full show metadata, and cast across 55+ countries. No API key, no registration, no login walls.

The TVmaze TV Schedule Scraper exports the community-maintained global TV catalog and returns up to 40+ structured fields per record, including episode metadata, full show details, network, premiere and finale dates, ratings, IMDb cross-references, and cast bios. The underlying dataset is one of the most widely cited open television references and has been maintained since 2008.

Coverage spans daily TV schedules across 55+ countries, the complete show catalog with seasons and episodes, single-show drill-downs by ID, and a global people search for actors, hosts, and crew. Records are returned as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under a minute. All filters run on the source side, so you skip the parser engineering entirely.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
EPG and streaming dashboards, TV app developers, recommendation engines, content licensing teams, entertainment journalists, fan sites	Daily airing grids, "what's on tonight" widgets, show metadata enrichment, cast lookups, recommendation engine training, IMDb cross-referencing

📋 What the TVmaze Scraper does

Five data modes in a single Actor:

• 📅 Daily Schedule. Every episode airing on a given date in a chosen country.
• 🔍 Show Search. Keyword search across the global show catalog.
• 🎬 Show Details. Full show metadata, episodes, seasons by numeric show ID.
• 📚 Show Catalog Page. Page through the full show index (250 shows per page).
• 🧑 People Search. Look up actors, hosts, and crew by name with bios and image URLs.

Each record carries cross-mode keys (showId, personId, episodeId) plus external IDs (imdb, thetvdb, tvrage) so you can JOIN against any other entertainment dataset.

💡 Why it matters: TV schedule and show metadata powers EPG grids, streaming app guides, recommendation systems, and editorial coverage. Building your own pipeline means scraping multiple network sites, normalizing timezones, and rebuilding when each broadcaster changes layout. This Actor skips all of that.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: airdate, airstamp, airtime, birthday, country, deathday, ended, episodeId, episodeName, episodeRating, episodeType, episodeUrl, gender, genres, imageUrl, imdb, language, networkCountry, networkName, networkTimezone, number, officialSite, personId, personName, personUrl, premiered, recordType, runtime, scheduleDays, scheduleTime, scrapedAt, season, showAverageRuntime, showId, showName, showRating, showRuntime, showStatus, showType, showUrl. 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. Go to the TVmaze TV Schedule Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a mode (start with schedule), choose a country and date, and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded 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 TVmaze, any TV network, or any production studio. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open TV schedule data is collected.

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