Game, movie, and TV rating aggregation
Use Metacritic endpoints to turn game, movie, and tv rating aggregation into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn public Metacritic pages into structured critic and audience data — browse titles by content type and genre, game/movie/TV detail with Metascore and user score, and critic and user reviews as normalized JSON for review aggregation, rating research, and enrichment. Credential-free.
Extract Metacritic game, movie, and TV data — Metascores, user scores, critic reviews, and user reviews — as structured JSON from public Metacritic pages.
Endpoint families
4
Documented params
42
Examples
10
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
10
Methods
GET
Required params
20
Schema refs
10
{
"platform": "Metacritic",
"endpoint": "metacritic-browse",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/metacritic/browse",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Metacritic game, movie, and TV data — Metascores, user scores, critic reviews, and user reviews — as structured JSON from public Metacritic pages.
Use Metacritic endpoints to turn game, movie, and tv rating aggregation into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Metacritic endpoints to turn critic and user review collection into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Metacritic endpoints to turn release and genre browse monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Each Crawlora platform API is designed around a specific data surface. Instead of exposing a generic fetch endpoint, Crawlora combines endpoint-specific request logic, managed infrastructure, parsing, normalization, billing, and Playground-tested examples.
Request behavior is tuned for the target platform and endpoint type.
Supported endpoints can use managed proxy routing to improve reliability and reduce infrastructure work.
Dynamic pages can be routed through managed browser instances where JavaScript rendering is required.
Challenge pages and unusable upstream responses are detected and surfaced clearly.
Results are returned as documented JSON instead of raw HTML.
Test the same route from Docs and Playground before production integration.
Coverage map
These cards are generated from the active endpoint catalog, so the landing page reflects the same API surface used by Docs and Playground.
/metacritic/game/{slug}
/metacritic/movie/{slug}
/metacritic/tv/{slug}
/metacritic/browse
Endpoint catalog
/metacritic/browseBrowse 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.
/metacritic/game/{slug}Returns 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.
/metacritic/game/{slug}/critic-reviewsReturns paginated professional/publication reviews for a game: publication, score, quote, author, platform, and source URL. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
/metacritic/game/{slug}/user-reviewsReturns paginated user reviews for a game: author, score (0-10), quote, date, platform, helpfulness, and spoiler flag. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
/metacritic/movie/{slug}Returns 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.
/metacritic/movie/{slug}/critic-reviewsReturns paginated professional/publication reviews for a movie: publication, score, quote, author, and source URL. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
/metacritic/movie/{slug}/user-reviewsReturns paginated user reviews for a movie: author, score (0-10), quote, date, helpfulness, and spoiler flag. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
/metacritic/tv/{slug}Returns 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.
/metacritic/tv/{slug}/critic-reviewsReturns paginated professional/publication reviews for a TV show: publication, score, quote, author, and source URL. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
/metacritic/tv/{slug}/user-reviewsReturns paginated user reviews for a TV show: author, score (0-10), quote, date, helpfulness, and spoiler flag. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
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How to scrape Metacritic
Metacritic's Metascores and user scores summarize critic and audience reception for games, movies, and TV. Crawlora's Metacritic endpoints return browse listings, title detail, and critic/user reviews as normalized JSON — no login, rate-limit juggling, or proxy setup.
A browse listing by content type and genre, or a game, movie, or TV title by slug (with its critic and user reviews).
Pass a content type or a title slug to Crawlora's Metacritic endpoint (e.g. /metacritic/browse, /metacritic/game, /metacritic/movie).
Receive title, Metascore, user score, genres, and review text as clean JSON, with fields varying by game / movie / TV.
Batch across browse pages and titles to build catalogs for review aggregation, rating research, or enrichment.
FAQ
Send a content type to Crawlora's Metacritic browse endpoint, or a title slug to the game/movie/TV endpoints, and get Metascores, user scores, and reviews as structured JSON — no login. Collect public data and respect Metacritic's terms.
Yes — each of /metacritic/game, /metacritic/movie, and /metacritic/tv has matching critic-reviews and user-reviews endpoints that return the individual review text and scores behind the aggregate Metascore and user score.
Collecting publicly accessible game, movie, and TV rating and review data is generally permissible if you respect Metacritic's terms of use, robots directives, rate limits, and applicable law. This is for public data you are authorized to collect.