# Changelog of IMDb Scraper — Ratings, Cast, Box Office, Awards & Top 250 (`sian.agency/imdb-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/imdb-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/imdb-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to IMDb Scraper will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-07-21]

#### 🎉 IMDb Scraper - Launch!

- **Enriched Title Profile** - Get ratings, Metacritic, certificate, runtime, genres and plot for any movie or TV title, merged into one clean row.
- **Full Billed Cast** - Extract the principal cast with the characters they play, the top cast list, and total cast-credit count.
- **Box Office Data** - Pull budget, opening-weekend gross, domestic gross and worldwide gross with currency — fields most IMDb scrapers omit.
- **Awards & Oscars** - Capture total wins, nominations and prestigious-award (Oscar) counts plus all-time ranking in the same row.
- **Top 250 Charts** - Export the full Top 250 Movies or Top 250 TV ranking — 250 ranked titles per run.
- **Featured User Reviews** - Mine review text, summary, author rating, helpful votes, date and spoiler flag.
- **ID or URL Input** - Paste an IMDb title ID or a full IMDb URL, single or bulk — the title ID is parsed for you.

#### 💎 User Benefits

- One enriched row per title — ratings, cast, box office AND awards together, no stitching multiple tools.
- Pay-per-result pricing with a free tier — no monthly rental, no login, no API key.
- Clean JSON/CSV/Excel exports ready for spreadsheets, databases and pipelines.
- Movies, TV, episodes and shorts across 11 language/country presets.

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- Data teams enriching a movie/TV catalog with authoritative IMDb fields.
- Analysts and journalists building box-office and awards-season datasets.
- Data scientists modeling ratings and review sentiment.
- ML engineers assembling recommendation and discovery datasets.
- Content strategists tracking the Top 250 rankings over time.