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🎬 TMDB Movies, TV Shows and People Scraper

🚀 Pull movies, TV shows, and people with cast, crew, trailer, watch providers, ratings, IMDB and Wikidata links across 12 modes.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-08 · 📊 46 fields per record · 12 modes · search, popular, top rated, now playing, upcoming, trending · cast + crew + trailer + keywords + watch providers · TMDB, IMDB, FB, IG, X IDs

The TMDB Movies, TV Shows and People Scraper pulls rich entertainment metadata for movies, TV series, and people from The Movie Database. Output includes title, poster, backdrop, overview, runtime, certification, genres, keywords, cast (top 20 with character + photo), directors, writers, producers, trailer URL, watch providers (flatrate / rent / buy + link), spoken languages, production companies + countries, budget, revenue, IMDB ID, Facebook / Instagram / X IDs, and per-record poster + backdrop galleries.

Twelve modes in one Actor: search movies, TV, people, multi-search, popular movies, popular TV, top-rated movies, top-rated TV, now playing, upcoming, trending day, and trending week. Detail enrichment runs automatically per record. The dataset draws from TMDB, the canonical open community-maintained movie database used by Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, Stremio and many more.

📋 What the TMDB Movies, TV Shows and People Scraper does

Five filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Search modes. Movies, TV, people, multi (mixed media).
• 🔥 Browse modes. Popular, top-rated, now playing, upcoming.
• 📈 Trending. Day and week trending across all media types.
• 🎭 Cast + crew + trailer. Top 20 cast with photos, directors, writers, producers, YouTube trailer.
• 🎯 Watch providers. Flatrate, rent, and buy services per region.

💡 Why it matters: clean, server-side filtering and fresh data on every run.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

⚙️ Input

Example: search Christopher Nolan films.

{
"maxItems":20,
"mode":"movie",
"query":"Christopher Nolan"
}

Example: top 20 popular TV shows.

{
"maxItems":20,
"mode":"popular_tv"
}

📊 Output

Each record contains 46 fields. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

📦 Sample records

✨ Why choose this Actor

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Find the TMDB Movies, TV Shows and People Scraper on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick filters and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start.
5. 📥 Download. Grab results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

💼 Business use cases

🔌 Automating TMDB Movies, TV Shows and People Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Open a ready-to-send prompt in the AI of your choice:

• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity
• 🅒 Copilot

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 How does it work?

Pick a mode (search or browse), supply a query if needed, and the Actor pulls results from TMDB. Each record is enriched with a detail call appending credits, videos, images, external IDs, keywords, release dates, and watch providers.

📊 How many fields per record?

46 for movies and TV (cast, crew, trailer, providers, IDs, galleries). Person mode returns 21 fields plus credits.

🎬 Does it return the full cast?

Top 20 cast members with character name, photo, and billing order. Full crew is summarized to directors / writers / producers.

📺 Are trailer URLs included?

Yes. The first official YouTube trailer per title (when available) is returned as a clean watch URL.

🌐 What about watch-provider data?

Yes. Flatrate (Netflix, Disney+, etc), rent, and buy lists per record, defaulting to US region.

🆔 Which external IDs are returned?

TMDB, IMDB, Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter) for joining with other datasets.

🌍 Which language?

Default is en-US. Override via the language input (any TMDB-supported BCP-47 code).

🔁 Can I schedule runs?

Yes. Apify Schedules supports any cron interval.

⚖️ Is this data free to use?

TMDB is free for personal and non-commercial use. Commercial use requires attribution; consult TMDB's terms.

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan?

No. The free plan covers preview runs (10 records). A paid plan unlocks higher item counts and scheduling.

🔌 Integrate with any app

TMDB Movies, TV Shows and People Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications
• Airbyte - Pipe data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits
• Google Drive - Export datasets to Sheets

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The Movie Database (TMDB), JustWatch, IMDB, or any production studio or distributor. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.