IMDb title box office summary API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/imdb/title/box-office

Auth

apiKey

Credits

2 credits/request

Platform

IMDb

Response schema

#/definitions/imdb.titleBoxOfficeResponseDoc

Overview

Returns a title's public box-office summary: lifetime gross by market (domestic, international, worldwide), the domestic opening weekend, and the production budget. IMDb reports each figure independently, so a real title with no box office data (most TV series, many non-theatrical titles) returns `has_box_office: false` with every figure omitted rather than an error. Pass exactly one of `id` or `url`. 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

2 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

Response behavior

- IMDb reports each figure independently. A real title with no reported box office data — most TV series and many non-theatrical titles — returns `has_box_office: false` with `production_budget`, `opening_weekend`, and every `lifetime_gross` field omitted, not an error. - `lifetime_gross.domestic`/`.international`/`.worldwide` are each an independent `{amount, currency}` figure and may be present or absent on their own. - `opening_weekend` covers the domestic market only; IMDb was verified to return no data for international or worldwide opening-weekend queries, so this API does not expose them. - A well-formed but unresolvable title ID returns a not-found error. - If IMDb changes the shape of this data, the endpoint fails closed with an upstream parser-drift error. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "id": "tt0111161", "title": "The Shawshank Redemption", "url": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/", "has_box_office": true, "production_budget": { "amount": 25000000, "currency": "USD" }, "opening_weekend": { "gross": { "amount": 727327, "currency": "USD" }, "theater_count": 33, "weekend_start_date": "1994-09-23", "weekend_end_date": "1994-09-25" }, "lifetime_gross": { "domestic": { "amount": 28767189, "currency": "USD" }, "international": { "amount": 628529, "currency": "USD" }, "worldwide": { "amount": 29425268, "currency": "USD" } } } } ```

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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