API Reference
Use Crawlora's Metacritic API endpoints to extract supported public Metacritic data as structured JSON. This documentation covers 10 active endpoints including Browse Metacritic titles, Get a Metacritic game, List a Metacritic game's critic reviews, List a Metacritic game's user reviews, and related APIs. Developers can use these endpoints for monitoring, enrichment, research dashboards, internal data pipelines, and agent-native workflows without maintaining platform-specific scraping code. Each endpoint page documents authentication, request parameters such as type, slug, cURL examples, response examples, response schemas, errors, credit cost, and Playground testing. Send requests to the Crawlora API with an x-api-key header, review usage and plan limits on pricing, and test safe sample requests in Playground before moving the workflow into production.
Choose an endpoint, send an authenticated request with the x-api-key header, and inspect the normalized JSON response. The examples below use the public Crawlora API base URL and the same endpoint catalog used by Playground.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/metacritic/browse?type=game&sort=score&page=1" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"These endpoint cards are generated from the active Crawlora endpoint catalog, including method, path, auth mode, credit cost, parameter summary, docs, and Playground links.
/metacritic/browseapiKey1 credit/requestBrowse Metacritic titles by content type, optionally filtered by genre and ordered by Metascore, popularity, or release date. Returns paginated title cards with Metascore and user score. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
Required params: type:query
/metacritic/game/{slug}apiKey2 credits/requestReturns a normalized Metacritic game: Metascore (critic) and user score with sentiment and review counts, genres, per-platform scores, developer/publisher, rating, release date, and trailer. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
Required params: slug:path
/metacritic/game/{slug}/critic-reviewsapiKey1 credit/requestReturns paginated professional/publication reviews for a game: publication, score, quote, author, platform, and source URL. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
Required params: slug:path
/metacritic/game/{slug}/user-reviewsapiKey1 credit/requestReturns paginated user reviews for a game: author, score (0-10), quote, date, platform, helpfulness, and spoiler flag. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
Required params: slug:path
/metacritic/movie/{slug}apiKey2 credits/requestReturns a normalized Metacritic movie: Metascore (critic) and user score with sentiment and review counts, genres, cast/crew, rating, runtime, release date, IMDb id, and trailer. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
Required params: slug:path
/metacritic/movie/{slug}/critic-reviewsapiKey1 credit/requestReturns paginated professional/publication reviews for a movie: publication, score, quote, author, and source URL. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
Required params: slug:path
/metacritic/movie/{slug}/user-reviewsapiKey1 credit/requestReturns paginated user reviews for a movie: author, score (0-10), quote, date, helpfulness, and spoiler flag. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
Required params: slug:path
/metacritic/tv/{slug}apiKey2 credits/requestReturns a normalized Metacritic TV show: Metascore (critic) and user score with sentiment and review counts, genres, networks, season count, rating, release date, IMDb id, and trailer. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
Required params: slug:path
/metacritic/tv/{slug}/critic-reviewsapiKey1 credit/requestReturns paginated professional/publication reviews for a TV show: publication, score, quote, author, and source URL. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
Required params: slug:path
/metacritic/tv/{slug}/user-reviewsapiKey1 credit/requestReturns paginated user reviews for a TV show: author, score (0-10), quote, date, helpfulness, and spoiler flag. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
Required params: slug:path
| Endpoint | API path | Method | Credits | Required params | Docs | Playground |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browse Metacritic titles | /metacritic/browse | GET | 1 credit/request | type:query | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get a Metacritic game | /metacritic/game/{slug} | GET | 2 credits/request | slug:path | View docs | Try endpoint |
| List a Metacritic game's critic reviews | /metacritic/game/{slug}/critic-reviews | GET | 1 credit/request | slug:path | View docs | Try endpoint |
| List a Metacritic game's user reviews | /metacritic/game/{slug}/user-reviews | GET | 1 credit/request | slug:path | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get a Metacritic movie | /metacritic/movie/{slug} | GET | 2 credits/request | slug:path | View docs | Try endpoint |
| List a Metacritic movie's critic reviews | /metacritic/movie/{slug}/critic-reviews | GET | 1 credit/request | slug:path | View docs | Try endpoint |
| List a Metacritic movie's user reviews | /metacritic/movie/{slug}/user-reviews | GET | 1 credit/request | slug:path | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get a Metacritic TV show | /metacritic/tv/{slug} | GET | 2 credits/request | slug:path | View docs | Try endpoint |
| List a Metacritic TV show's critic reviews | /metacritic/tv/{slug}/critic-reviews | GET | 1 credit/request | slug:path | View docs | Try endpoint |
| List a Metacritic TV show's user reviews | /metacritic/tv/{slug}/user-reviews | GET | 1 credit/request | slug:path | View docs | Try endpoint |