District Movies Scraper — India Catalog, Cast & Critic Reviews
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from $2.00 / 1,000 movies
Scrape movies from District (district.in, India): now showing in any city or the full catalog of 2,000+ titles. Synopsis, cast with bios, trailers, posters, languages, formats, show counts, per-outlet critic ratings and critic reviews (TOI, NDTV, India Today and more). No login needed.
Now showing: every movie currently playing (or open for advance booking) in the cities below, with show counts per language and format.
Full catalog: every movie District has a page for (2,000+ titles: past, current and upcoming), newest first. Cities are ignored in this mode.
City names, e.g. mumbai, bengaluru (or bangalore), delhi-ncr, hyderabad, chennai, pune, kolkata, ahmedabad. Neighbourhoods such as "Bandra" also work. Use top for District's 12 top cities. One movie playing in several cities is returned once, with a per-city breakdown.
[ "mumbai"]District movie URLs (https://www.district.in/movies/...-MV207237) or numeric movie ids. When set, only these movies are scraped and the mode and cities are ignored. A URL that contains a city ("-in-mumbai-") also returns that city's show counts.
Synopsis, cast, trailers, image gallery and all languages. Turn off in "Now showing" mode for a faster, lighter listing (name, genres, censor rating, duration, poster, formats, show counts and critic ratings are still included). Always on for the full catalog and specific movies.
Critic reviews shown on District (Times of India, India Today, NDTV, The Indian Express, Bollywood Hungama, News18, Rediff, Pinkvilla, Firstpost, Taran Adarsh...) with reviewer, date and the outlet's rating. Only fetched for movies that have reviews.
Off: each review has a ~400-character excerpt plus its full length. On: the complete review text (usually 2,000–7,000 characters).
Also output one row per critic review (dataType "review") instead of nesting reviews inside each movie row. Handy for spreadsheets and sentiment analysis. Movie rows keep their ratings and review counts.
Short biography for each cast member where District has one.
Skip movies that have no critic rating or review on District. In full-catalog mode roughly 1 title in 9 qualifies (~250 movies; a full scan takes about a minute), so the run checks many more movies than it returns (you only pay for returned rows).
Keep movies in any of these languages, e.g. Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, English, Malayalam, Kannada. Empty = all.
Keep movies with any of these genres, e.g. Action, Drama, Comedy, Thriller, Horror. Empty = all.
Keep movies playing in any of these formats, e.g. IMAX, 4DX, 3D, 2D. Partial match: "imax" matches "IMAX 2D". Empty = all.
YYYY-MM-DD, or relative like "30 days" (that many days ago). Combine with the full catalog to get e.g. this year's releases.
YYYY-MM-DD, "today" (excludes upcoming movies), or relative like "30 days" (that many days from now).
Maximum number of movie rows. Review rows (when output separately) don't count toward this. 0 = no limit.
Parallel requests. The default is fast and safe.