Rotten Tomatoes Reviews Scraper

Scrape Rotten Tomatoes reviews from movie pages and export structured critic and audience review data. This Actor extracts critic quotes, audience ratings, sentiment, publication metadata, verified audience flags, Top Critic indicators, reaction counts, source URLs, movie IDs, and the raw API response for full traceability.

Use it to build movie review datasets, compare critic and audience reception, run sentiment analysis, monitor film reception over time, or feed review text into NLP and recommendation systems.

Paste one or more Rotten Tomatoes movie URLs, choose critic reviews, audience reviews, or both, and run the scraper. Pagination is handled automatically, and no proxies are required in normal use.

Great for:

• 🎬 Film sentiment analysis & critic vs. audience divergence studies
• 📊 Entertainment market research & trend tracking
• 🤖 Training review classification or NLP models
• 🧬 Academic research on critical reception

🔍 What data do you get?

Data type	Description
Critic reviews	Quote, score, sentiment, publication, critic profile, top critic flags, reaction counts
Audience reviews	Rating (star-based), review text, verified status, super reviewer flag, reaction counts
Provenance	Source URL, movie ID, scrape timestamp – for traceability and deduplication

🔋 Why use this scraper?

• ⚡ No proxies needed: Works directly on shared IPs – no extra cost, no setup
• 🎭 Both review types: Critic and audience reviews in one run, with a unified output schema
• 🔍 Granular filters: Top critics only, verified audience only, date ranges
• ⚙️ Typed output: Schema-validated with a full raw field for complete fidelity
• 🔢 Pagination handled: Fetches all pages automatically, or stops at your configured limit
• 🚀 Multi-format export: CSV, JSON, Excel, XML, and more via the Apify platform

✏️ Input fields

• urls (required) – List of Rotten Tomatoes movie URLs, e.g. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inception
• reviewType (optional) – critic, audience, or both (default: both)
• maxReviewsPerMovie (optional) – Cap on reviews per movie, applied independently to each review type
• topCriticReviewsOnly (optional) – Only return reviews from top critics (critic reviews only)
• verifiedAudienceReviewsOnly (optional) – Only return verified audience reviews (audience reviews only)

🔧 Output format

All reviews are emitted into a single dataset with a unified schema. The type field distinguishes critic from audience reviews. A raw field contains the full, unmodified API response for each review.

Shared fields (all reviews)

{
  "id": "abc123",
  "type": "critic",
  "createDate": "2024-03-15T10:22:00.000Z",
  "text": "A masterclass in tension and restraint.",
  "sentiment": "POSITIVE",
  "authorDisplayName": "Jane Smith",
  "authorInitials": "JS",
  "authorImageUrl": "https://...",
  "authorIsVerified": true,
  "reactionTotalCount": 42,
  "isTop": true,
  "provenance": {
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inception",
    "movieId": "emsid_abc123",
    "scrapedAt": "2025-05-06T08:00:00.000Z"
  },
  "raw": { ... }
}

Critic-only fields (in raw)

{
  "reviewId": "abc123",
  "originalScore": "4/5",
  "scoreSentiment": "POSITIVE",
  "isTopReview": true,
  "publicationReviewUrl": "https://somepublication.com/review/inception",
  "reviewQuote": "A masterclass in tension and restraint.",
  "language": "en",
  "critic": {
    "displayName": "Jane Smith",
    "isTopCritic": true,
    "tomatometerApproved": true,
    "rottenTomatoesUrl": "https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/jane-smith"
  },
  "publication": {
    "name": "Some Publication",
    "isTopPublication": true,
    "tomatometerApproved": true
  },
  "reactionSummary": {
    "reactions": [{ "reaction": "HELPFUL", "count": 38 }],
    "totalCount": 42
  }
}

Audience-only fields (in raw)

{
  "ratingId": "xyz789",
  "rating": "STAR_4_5",
  "review": "One of the best films I've seen in years.",
  "isVerified": true,
  "isSuperReviewer": false,
  "hasSpoilers": false,
  "hasProfanity": false,
  "user": {
    "displayName": "MovieFan99",
    "realm": "rotten_tomatoes",
    "profileHandle": "moviefan99"
  },
  "reactionSummary": {
    "reactions": [{ "reaction": "HELPFUL", "count": 5 }],
    "totalCount": 5
  },
  "audienceScore": {
    "isActivelyModerated": false
  }
}

Sentiment normalization

• Critic reviews: sentiment is provided directly by Rotten Tomatoes (POSITIVE / NEGATIVE)
• Audience reviews: sentiment is inferred from the star rating - 3 stars and above maps to POSITIVE

👤 Who is it for?

• 🔬 Data scientists & NLP researchers – Sentiment analysis, critic vs. audience divergence, review embedding datasets
• 🎓 Film studies academics – Reception history, publication bias, critical consensus tracking
• 💻 Developers – Feed structured review data into recommendation engines or content platforms
• 📈 Entertainment analysts – Track critical momentum around releases across time

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