IMDb API endpoint
Use Crawlora's IMDb title video metadata API to extract supported public IMDb data as structured JSON. This page includes request parameters, cURL examples, response schema, error behavior, credit cost, and a Playground link for testing before integration.
/imdb/title/videosReturns public title video metadata and thumbnail URLs only; playback URLs and media manifests are never returned. IMDb server-truncates this connection and exposes no usable continuation cursor, so `total` can exceed returned rows and `has_more` reports that condition. Limit defaults to 50 and clamps to 100. 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.
Request parameters are generated from the active endpoint catalog. Required values must be sent before Crawlora can call the upstream public web data source.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | No | IMDb title id | ||
| url | string | No | Absolute https://www.imdb.com/title/<id>/ URL | ||
| limit | integer | No | Rows to return, default 50, max 100 | ||
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/imdb/title/videos?limit=10" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Daily cap | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 | 500 daily credits | 5/min | No overage |
| Starter | $9/mo | 20,000 | 5,000 daily credits | 15/min | $0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Growth | $29/mo | 100,000 | 25,000 daily credits | 45/min | $0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Pro | $79/mo | 400,000 | No daily cap | 120/min | $0.30/1,000 overage credits |
| Business | $199/mo | 1,200,000 | No daily cap | 300/min | $0.20/1,000 overage credits |
| Enterprise | $499/mo | 5,000,000 | No daily cap | 1,000/min | $0.12/1,000 overage credits |
This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.
- `videos[].thumbnail` describes IMDb's public preview image. It is not a playback URL. - `videos[].duration_seconds` is IMDb's stated duration, when supplied. - `videos[].primary_title` identifies the production IMDb associates with the video; it can differ from the requested title for related editorial videos. - IMDb's title `videoStrip` is server-truncated and supplies no usable public continuation cursor. `total` is the upstream count and `has_more` is true whenever the returned slice is shorter; this endpoint does not imply deep pagination is available. - A well-formed but unresolvable title ID returns a not-found error. - If IMDb removes the video field or changes its shape, the endpoint fails closed with an upstream parser-drift error. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "id": "tt1375666", "title": "Inception", "limit": 50, "url": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/videogallery/", "total": 35, "has_more": true, "videos": [ { "id": "vi2959588889", "title": "10th Anniversary Dream Trailer", "content_type": "Trailer", "duration_seconds": 105, "thumbnail": { "url": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/example._V1_.jpg", "width": 1905, "height": 1071 }, "primary_title": { "id": "tt1375666", "title": "Inception", "url": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/" }, "position": 1 } ] } } ```
Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.
| Status | Common failure case |
|---|---|
| 400 | Invalid input or missing required parameter |
| 429 | Plan or endpoint rate limit exceeded |
| 500 | Internal execution error |
| 502 | Upstream platform failed, returned unusable HTML, or served a challenge page that could not be resolved |
When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Not Found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Too Many Requests | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 500 | Internal Server Error | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"id": "tt1375666",
"title": "Inception",
"limit": 50,
"url": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/videogallery/",
"total": 35,
"has_more": true,
"videos": [
{
"id": "vi2959588889",
"title": "10th Anniversary Dream Trailer",
"content_type": "Trailer",
"duration_seconds": 105,
"thumbnail": {
"url": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/example._V1_.jpg",
"width": 1905,
"height": 1071
},
"primary_title": {
"id": "tt1375666",
"title": "Inception",
"url": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/"
},
"position": 1
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/imdb.titleVideosResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | imdb.TitleVideosResponse | No | ||||
| data.fetched_at | string | No | 2026-09-14T14:46:16Z | |||
| data.has_more | boolean | No | true | |||
| data.id | string | No | tt1375666 | |||
| data.limit | integer | No | 50 | |||
| data.source_url | string | No | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/videogallery/ | |||
| data.title | string | No | Inception | |||
| data.total | integer | No | 35 | |||
| data.url | string | No | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/videogallery/ | |||
| data.videos | array | No | ||||
| data.videos[].content_type | string | No | Trailer | |||
| data.videos[].duration_seconds | integer | No | 105 | |||
| data.videos[].id | string | No | vi2959588889 | |||
| data.videos[].position | integer | No | 1 | |||
| data.videos[].primary_title | imdb.VideoPrimaryTitle | No | ||||
| data.videos[].primary_title.id | string | No | tt1375666 | |||
| data.videos[].primary_title.title | string | No | Inception | |||
| data.videos[].primary_title.url | string | No | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/ | |||
| data.videos[].thumbnail | imdb.VideoThumbnail | No | ||||
| data.videos[].thumbnail.height | integer | No | 1071 | |||
| data.videos[].thumbnail.url | string | No | https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ1ZmIzOTAtNDcwZi00NDVkLWE4NWItYWNhZGY1MmVlZGU0XkEyXkFqcGdeQWRvb2xpbmhk._V1_.jpg | |||
| data.videos[].thumbnail.width | integer | No | 1905 | |||
| data.videos[].title | string | No | 10th Anniversary Dream Trailer | |||
| msg | string | No | OK |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/imdb/title/videos?limit=10" \
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