# China Box Office: Daily Movie Box Office by Film (Maoyan) (`sinodata/china-box-office`) Actor

China box office data API, no login: daily box office for every film in Chinese cinemas from Maoyan (猫眼), with market share, screenings, seat occupancy and running totals, plus the daily market total. Up to a year of history and presales.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sinodata/china-box-office.md
- **Developed by:** [SinoData](https://apify.com/sinodata) (community)
- **Categories:** Videos
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## Pricing

from $0.90 / 1,000 film-days

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## China Box Office: Daily Movie Box Office by Film (Maoyan)

Get **daily box office for every film in Chinese cinemas**, the world's second-largest film market, from **Maoyan (猫眼专业版)**, the industry's reference box office platform. No login, no browser.

For each day you get every film showing, ranked by box office, with:

- **Box office that day** in CNY (gross and net of service fees) and **share of the market**
- **Screenings** and screening share, **seat occupancy**, average viewers per screening
- **Running total** since release
- Optional **daily market total**: box office, screenings and admissions for the whole country

History goes back about **one year**, and presale days up to about two months ahead are available too.

### Use cases

- **Studios and distributors**: track how your film and competitors perform in China, day by day.
- **Investors and analysts**: monitor the Chinese cinema market and holiday seasons (Spring Festival, National Day, summer).
- **Media and research**: build time series of Chinese box office for reports and models.

### Example input

```json
{
  "dateFrom": "2026-10-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-10-07",
  "maxFilmsPerDay": 20
}
```

Or just `{ "dates": ["today"] }` for today, and add an Apify **Schedule** to collect it every day.

### Output

A film record:

```json
{
  "type": "film",
  "date": "2026-10-06",
  "rank": 1,
  "movieId": "1586199",
  "title": "生化危机：爆发夜",
  "releaseInfo": "上映2天",
  "boxOfficeYuan": 54522981,
  "boxOfficeNetYuan": 48517182,
  "boxOfficeSharePct": 32.9,
  "screenings": 116364,
  "screeningSharePct": 25.1,
  "seatOccupancyPct": 7.4,
  "avgViewersPerScreening": 11.6,
  "totalBoxOfficeYuan": 135000000,
  "totalBoxOfficeText": "1.35亿",
  "url": "https://piaofang.maoyan.com/movie/1586199"
}
```

A daily total record (`type: "day"`) has `boxOfficeYuan`, `boxOfficeNetYuan`, `screenings`, `admissions`, `filmsShowing` and `isPresale`.

- Film titles are kept in Chinese as Maoyan publishes them.
- Today's figures are live and keep updating until the end of the day (China time); past days are final.
- `totalBoxOfficeYuan` is rounded the way Maoyan shows it (for example 1.35亿 = 135,000,000).

### Pricing

**$0.001 per film record and $0.001 per daily total.** A typical day with the top 30 films and the daily total costs about $0.03; a full week about $0.22.

### Notes and limits

- Dates outside Maoyan's range (about one year back to two months ahead) are skipped with a note in the log.
- Only public data is collected. If Maoyan ever blocks requests (HTTP 403), enable Apify Proxy in the Advanced section.

### Feedback

Want per-city box office, presale tracking or another field? Open an issue on the Issues tab.

# Actor input Schema

## `dates` (type: `array`):

Days to fetch, like 2026-10-05, or "today" (China time). Maoyan keeps about one year of history and shows presales up to two months ahead. Ignored if you set a date range below.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

First day of a range, like 2026-10-01. Use with "Date range: to" to get every day in between (up to 366 days).

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Last day of the range, like 2026-10-07, or "today". Defaults to today.

## `maxFilmsPerDay` (type: `integer`):

How many films to save for each day, highest box office first. A normal day has 70-130 films in cinemas.

## `includeDailyTotal` (type: `boolean`):

Also save one record per day with the whole market's box office, screenings and admissions.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Usually not needed. If you see HTTP 403 errors, enable Apify Proxy.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "dates": [
    "today"
  ],
  "maxFilmsPerDay": 30,
  "includeDailyTotal": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `films` (type: `string`):

No description

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "dates": [
        "today"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sinodata/china-box-office").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "dates": ["today"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("sinodata/china-box-office").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "dates": [
    "today"
  ]
}' |
apify call sinodata/china-box-office --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,sinodata/china-box-office"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/UIuMnV8rw3lTke9Lg/builds/vG72Bz7ECBMb47gPG/openapi.json