IMDb advanced title search API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/imdb/search/title

Auth

apiKey

Credits

3 credits/request

Platform

IMDb

Response schema

#/definitions/imdb.searchTitleResponseDoc

Overview

Returns normalized IMDb advanced title-search results (imdb.com/search/title/) from a credential-free public IMDb page. At least one filter is required; sort/limit alone are not enough. Limit defaults to 25 and clamps to 50; only IMDb's first rendered page of results is returned (see `total`/`has_more`), there is no deeper cursor pagination. Genre/company/certificate/country/language/keyword/characters/role are include-only lists; there is no exclude support. Unsupported: genre exclude, three curated `groups` values (best-picture-nominee, best-director-nominee, national-film-registry), and the non-plot "page topic" search fields. Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and agent-native workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.

Authentication

Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.

Billing

Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.

Credit cost

3 credits/request

Charged response

Successful 2xx responses

Infrastructure behavior

This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.

• Proxy strategy: managed automatically where needed
• Browser rendering: enabled for supported targets that require rendered HTML or JavaScript execution
• Browser cluster: supported dynamic workloads can be routed through distributed browser instances
• Retry behavior: automatic retry/fallback may be used depending on endpoint type
• Challenge handling: challenged pages or unusable upstream HTML are detected and surfaced clearly when they cannot be used
• Billing: credits are charged only for successful 2xx responses
• Observability: responses include request context where available

Browser cluster behavior

Some targets require real browser execution because the data is loaded through JavaScript, dynamic rendering, or interaction-like browser behavior.

For supported endpoints, Crawlora can route requests through a managed browser cluster. This allows Crawlora to execute JavaScript, load dynamic content, apply browser-level request behavior, and normalize the rendered result into JSON.

You do not need to operate your own Playwright, Puppeteer, Chrome, proxy, queue, or retry infrastructure.

Response behavior

- `data.results` contains normalized title rows: `id`, `title`, `url`, `title_type`, `year`, `release_date`, `genres`, `certificate`, `metascore`, `rating_value`, `rating_count`, `runtime_minutes`, `plot`, `image_url`. - `data.total` is IMDb's own full hit count for the filter set, not just the number of rows returned. `data.has_more` is true whenever `total` exceeds the returned rows. - Only IMDb's first server-rendered page of results is available through this endpoint (its own SSR page size, up to 50 rows). IMDb's deeper pagination beyond that is a client-side GraphQL cursor flow this endpoint does not reproduce. - Empty parsed results are treated as parser drift unless IMDb returns an explicit no-results marker (`total: 0`). - IMDb WAF or robot-verification pages return an upstream error. - Known gaps, intentionally unsupported rather than guessed: genre exclude (the live UI shows an exclude affordance but no working query parameter was found for it), three additional `groups` values (best-picture-nominee, best-director-nominee, national-film-registry — no accepted slug found), and the non-`plot` "page topic" search fields (alternate versions, crazy credits, goofs, locations, quotes, soundtracks, trivia). Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "source_url": "https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?genres=Action&title_type=feature&sort=user_rating%2Cdesc&num_votes=25000%2C", "fetched_at": "2026-08-01T12:00:00Z", "limit": 25, "total": 1968, "has_more": true, "results": [ { "id": "tt33175825", "title": "Attack on Titan: The Last Attack", "url": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33175825/", "title_type": "movie", "year": 2024, "release_date": "2024-11-08", "genres": ["Animation", "Action", "Adventure"], "rating_value": 9, "rating_count": 33724, "runtime_minutes": 145, "plot": "The fate of the world hangs in the balance as Eren unleashes the ultimate power of the Titans." } ] } } ```

Error behavior

Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.

When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.

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