🎬 IMDB User Reviews Scraper

This actor allows you to scrape user reviews from IMDB.com by providing a reviews page URL. It automatically handles pagination and extracts comprehensive review information including ratings, review text, author details, and helpfulness votes.

Features

• URL-based Scraping: Extract reviews by providing a complete IMDB reviews page URL
• Automatic Pagination: Automatically clicks "See More" button and loads more reviews until reaching the end or max items limit
• Comprehensive Review Data: Extract detailed information about each review including:
  • Review title and full text content
  • User ratings (1-10 scale)
  • Author information and profile links
  • Review dates
  • Helpful and not helpful vote counts
  • Direct links to individual reviews
• Smart Deduplication: Automatically removes duplicate reviews based on review links

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchUrl	string	Yes	Complete IMDB reviews page URL to scrape
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of reviews to fetch (default: unlimited)
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Proxy settings for the actor

How to Get Reviews URL

1. Go to IMDB.com
2. Navigate to any movie or TV show page
3. Click on the "User reviews" section or go to the reviews page
4. Copy the complete URL from your browser's address bar
5. Paste it into the searchUrl field

Example reviews URLs:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4425200/reviews/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/reviews/

Output

The output is a dataset of review objects, each containing:

• searchUrl: The original reviews page URL used
• reviewId: Unique review identifier (e.g., "rw6316364")
• link: Direct link to the individual review page
• title: Review title/headline
• reviewText: Full review content text
• author: Reviewer username
• authorProfile: Link to reviewer's IMDB profile
• date: Review publication date
• rating: Numeric rating (1-10)
• helpful: Number of "helpful" votes
• notHelpful: Number of "not helpful" votes
• scrapedAt: Timestamp of when the review was scraped

Example output:

[
  {
    "searchUrl": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4425200/reviews/",
    "reviewId": "rw6316364",
    "link": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4425200/review/rw6316364/?ref_=tturv_perm_1",
    "title": "It's just a great action film",
    "reviewText": "I mean. This literally is what is says on the tin. It's jam packed with action and I love it.\n\nThe plot is easy to understand and the action shots are brilliant. So much bloodshed, guns, fighting, killing and more guns. Did I mention guns?\nIt's just a nice, easy and fun watch. I recommend watching the first if you haven't already, but yeah I'm impressed by the sequel.\n\nUsually with action sequels it can be a bit dull and repetitive, but this ramps up the action from the first film.\n\nBut yeah, 8/10 from me today. Enjoyed my time watching this, I'm going to jump into the third one now.",
    "author": "danielmanson",
    "authorProfile": "https://www.imdb.com/user/ur89745032/?ref_=tturv_usr_1_t",
    "date": "Nov 28, 2020",
    "rating": 8,
    "helpful": "86",
    "notHelpful": "23",
    "scrapedAt": "2025-11-11T03:30:02.731Z"
  },
  ...
]

Use Cases

• Sentiment analysis of movie and TV show reviews
• Rating trend analysis
• Reviewer behavior research
• Content recommendation systems
• Market research for entertainment industry
• Review quality assessment
• Audience perception tracking
• Competitive analysis for studios and streaming platforms

Notes

• The actor works with IMDB reviews pages (URLs ending with /reviews/)
• Results are saved incrementally as they are found
• All timestamps are in ISO 8601 format
• Review text preserves line breaks and formatting
• Ratings are numeric values from 1 to 10
• Vote counts are stored as strings to preserve exact values

Limitations

• Only works with IMDB reviews pages
• Cannot scrape review replies or threaded discussions
• Some reviews may require additional time to load
• Rate limiting may apply if scraping very large datasets
• Review content is extracted as plain text (HTML formatting is removed)

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