Rotten Tomatoes API endpoint
Use Crawlora's Rotten Tomatoes movie reviews API to extract supported public Rotten Tomatoes 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.
/rottentomatoes/movie/reviewsReturns normalized critic or audience reviews from Rotten Tomatoes public review JSON hydrated by the movie review page, including pagination metadata. Pass exactly one of `path` or `url`. Supported `type` values are `critics`, `top-critics`, `audience`, and `verified-audience`. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| path | string | No | Rotten Tomatoes movie path | ||
| url | string | No | Absolute https://www.rottentomatoes.com movie URL | ||
| type | string | No | Review type: critics, top-critics, audience, verified-audience Allowed values: critics, top-critics, audience, verified-audience | ||
| limit | integer | No | Reviews to return, default 10, max 20 | ||
| after | string | No | Pagination cursor from data.page_info.end_cursor | ||
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/rottentomatoes/movie/reviews?type=critics&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 |
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| 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.
- `data.public_page_derived` is `true`. - `data.page_info.has_next_page` and `data.page_info.end_cursor` expose Rotten Tomatoes pagination state when another page is available. - Review type values other than `critics`, `top-critics`, `audience`, and `verified-audience` are rejected before upstream IO. - Blocked pages, malformed review JSON, and parser drift return upstream errors. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "type": "critics", "limit": 10, "page_info": { "has_next_page": true, "end_cursor": "eyJ0eXBlIjoiUmV2aWV3In0" }, "reviews": [ { "display_name": "Danilo Castro", "review": "A representative review excerpt." } ], "public_page_derived": true } } ```
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": {
"type": "critics",
"limit": 10,
"page_info": {
"has_next_page": true,
"end_cursor": "eyJ0eXBlIjoiUmV2aWV3In0"
},
"reviews": [
{
"display_name": "Danilo Castro",
"review": "A representative review excerpt."
}
],
"public_page_derived": true
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/rottentomatoes.reviewsResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | rottentomatoes.ReviewsResponse | No | ||||
| data.fetched_at | string | No | 2026-06-07T14:46:16Z | |||
| data.limit | integer | No | 10 | |||
| data.movie | rottentomatoes.ReviewMovieSummary | No | ||||
| data.movie.ems_id | string | No | afbf1c81-1bfe-3996-9cbc-2e1be23d1f61 | |||
| data.movie.media_type | string | No | Movie | |||
| data.movie.path | string | No | /m/inception | |||
| data.movie.title | string | No | Inception | |||
| data.movie.url | string | No | https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inception | |||
| data.page_info | rottentomatoes.ReviewPageInfo | No | ||||
| data.page_info.end_cursor | string | No | eyJ0eXBlIjoiUmV2aWV3In0 | |||
| data.page_info.has_next_page | boolean | No | true | |||
| data.public_page_derived | boolean | No | true | |||
| data.reviews | array | No | ||||
| data.reviews[].created_at | string | No | 2024-04-11T23:40:16.000Z | |||
| data.reviews[].critic_url | string | No | https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critic/danilo-castro | |||
| data.reviews[].display_name | string | No | Danilo Castro | |||
| data.reviews[].has_profanity | boolean | No | false | |||
| data.reviews[].has_spoilers | boolean | No | false | |||
| data.reviews[].id | string | No | 102903742 | |||
| data.reviews[].original_score | string | No | 9/10 | |||
| data.reviews[].publication | string | No | Next Best Picture | |||
| data.reviews[].publication_approved | boolean | No | true | |||
| data.reviews[].publication_review_url | string | No | https://nextbestpicture.com/inception/ | |||
| data.reviews[].rating | number | No | 4.5 | |||
| data.reviews[].rating_label | string | No | STAR_4_5 | |||
| data.reviews[].review | string | No | ||||
| data.reviews[].score_sentiment | string | No | POSITIVE | |||
| data.reviews[].super_reviewer | boolean | No | false | |||
| data.reviews[].tomatometer_approved | boolean | No | true | |||
| data.reviews[].top_critic | boolean | No | false | |||
| data.reviews[].top_publication | boolean | No | false | |||
| data.reviews[].top_review | boolean | No | false | |||
| data.reviews[].type | string | No | critic | |||
| data.reviews[].verified | boolean | No | false | |||
| data.reviews_api_url | string | No | https://www.rottentomatoes.com/napi/rtcf/v1/movies/afbf1c81-1bfe-3996-9cbc-2e1be23d1f61/reviews?type=critic&pageCount=10 | |||
| data.source_url | string | No | https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inception/reviews | |||
| data.type | string | No | critics | |||
| msg | string | No | OK |
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curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/rottentomatoes/movie/reviews?type=critics&limit=10" \
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