OMDb API
The Open Movie Database
The OMDb API is a RESTful web service to obtain movie information, all content and images on the site are contributed and maintained by our users.
If you find this service useful, please consider making a one-time donation or become a patron.
Poster API
The Poster API is only available to patrons.
Currently over 280,000 posters, updated daily with resolutions up to 2000x3000.
Attention Users
04/08/19 - Added support for eight digit IMDb IDs.
01/20/19 - Supressed adult content from search results.
01/20/19 - Added Swagger files (YAML, JSON) to expose current API abilities and upcoming REST functions.
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Usage
Send all data requests to:
http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=[yourkey]&
Poster API requests:
http://img.omdbapi.com/?apikey=[yourkey]&
Parameters
By ID or Title
| Parameter | Required | Valid Options | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| i | Optional* | <empty> | A valid IMDb ID (e.g. tt1285016) | |
| t | Optional* | <empty> | Movie title to search for. | |
| type | No | movie, series, episode | <empty> | Type of result to return. |
| y | No | <empty> | Year of release. | |
| plot | No | short, full | short | Return short or full plot. |
| r | No | json, xml | json | The data type to return. |
| callback | No | <empty> | JSONP callback name. | |
| v | No | 1 | API version (reserved for future use). |
By Search
| Parameter | Required | Valid options | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| s | Yes | <empty> | Movie title to search for. | |
| type | No | movie, series, episode | <empty> | Type of result to return. |
| y | No | <empty> | Year of release. | |
| r | No | json, xml | json | The data type to return. |
| page New! | No | 1-100 | 1 | Page number to return. |
| callback | No | <empty> | JSONP callback name. | |
| v | No | 1 | API version (reserved for future use). |
Examples
Change Log
- 11/02/17
- FREE KEYS! The "open" API is finally open again!
- 08/20/17
- I created a GitHub repository for tracking bugs.
- 05/10/17
- Due to some security concerns on how the keys were being distributed I updated the form to email them and also changed the algorithm used, which means your older keys not obtained through email will eventually stop working.
- 01/12/17
- Removed single character restriction from title/search results.
- 06/11/16
- "totalSeasons" count has been added to series results.
- 1/20/16
- To accommodate search paging "totalResults" is now returned at the root level.
- 12/12/15
- Search pagination added: http://www.omdbapi.com/?s=Batman&page=2
- 11/16/15
- Season+Episode now works with "i" parameter: http://www.omdbapi.com/?i=tt0944947&Season=1
- Fixed the max pool size connection issues.
- 10/18/15
- You can now return all episodes by using just the "Season" parameter: http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=Game of Thrones&Season=1
- 9/9/15
- New server is up, response times should be < 500ms.
- Setup a CDN/Caching service with CloudFlare
- 8/15/15
- Created and Fixed a bad parsing error with JSON response. -Sorry about that!
- HTTPS (with TLS) is now active: https://www.omdbapi.com/
- 5/10/15
- Season+Episode search parameters added: http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=Game of Thrones&Season=1&Episode=1
- 5/2/15
- Poster API: Enabled client side caching.
- Database normalization.
- 3/27/15
- Corrected JSON/JSONP response types per RFC standards.
- Changed Caching-control to Public.
- 3/15/15
- Episodes will now return Season/Episode/SeriesID.
- 3/8/15
- New caching system in place, response times should be much better.
- Set a max limit of 20 concurrent connections, if you get 403 errors you may need to delay your responses a bit.
- 2/15/15
- Poster API: Now returns 404 error if poster not found.
- 1/1/15
- You can now search by type! (movie, series, episode etc.)
- Dupes have been removed from database.
- Poster API images updated.
- 11/1/14
- New site layout!
- Poster API still undergoing stress tests by donors.
- Fixed some issues causing invalid JSON/XML due to non escaped quotes.