Top movies, TV shows and title pages

What this example returns

This example returns up to 5 titles.

The dataset’s “Titles” view shows 22 columns: Rank, Title, URL, Release date, Metascore, Critic reviews, User score, User ratings, Platforms, Developers, Publishers, Directors, Genres, Rating, Critic verdict, User verdict, Type, Summary, Image, Source, Details error, and Scraped at. See every output field.

What each setting does

The input this example runs Metacritic Scraper with. “Try this input” opens it in the console, where you can run it as-is or change any field first.

Metacritic URLs startUrls

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/movie/, https://www.metacritic.com/browse/tv/, https://www.metacritic.com/game/elden-ring/, https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-godfather/, https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-office-uk/

Metacritic pages to scrape, one per line: browse/ranking pages (https://www.metacritic.com/browse/game/, with any platform, genre, year and sort the site lets you pick), search pages (https://www.metacritic.com/search/zelda/) or title pages (https://www.metacritic.com/game/elden-ring/). Leave empty to browse with the…

Search terms searchQueries

zelda

Titles to search for on Metacritic, one per line (e.g. zelda). Results are limited to the Type below.

Max results per ranking or search maxItems

5

How many titles to save from each browse page, ranking or search, starting at the top. Rankings hold thousands of titles (about 14,000 games have a Metascore); 0 = all of them. Title URLs always give one row each.

Default: 20 → this example uses 5

Include details (developer, publisher, user rating count) includeDetails

Yes

Also open each title's own page for developers, publishers, all platforms with their own Metascores, user rating count, franchise and Must-play badge (games), or directors, writers, cast and production companies (movies and TV). Costs one extra event per title; turn it off for a faster, lower-cost ranking-only run.

Type type

Games

What to browse when no URL is given, and what the search terms look for.

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.metacritic.com/browse/movie/",
    "https://www.metacritic.com/browse/tv/",
    "https://www.metacritic.com/game/elden-ring/",
    "https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-godfather/",
    "https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-office-uk/"
  ],
  "searchQueries": [
    "zelda"
  ],
  "type": "games",
  "maxItems": 5,
  "includeDetails": true
}

What it costs

You pay for the events the actor reports, such as each result or page it produces. Platform usage is included in the event prices: compute, proxies, browser and storage cost nothing extra.

• Titlefrom $0.0016One game, movie or TV show saved from a Metacritic ranking, search or title page: title, URL, release date, Metascore, critic review count, user score, platforms, genres, rating and summary.
• Title detailsfrom $0.0018Details read from the title's own page: developers, publishers, all platforms with their own Metascores, user rating count, franchise (games) or directors, writers, cast and production companies (movies, TV). Charged only for titles whose page was read.

Full pricing

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About Metacritic Scraper

Scrape Metacritic rankings and searches for games, movies and TV shows: title, release date, Metascore, critic review count, user score and rating count, platforms, developers, publishers, genres, ESRB rating and summary. Top lists of 5,000+ titles. No login needed.

Price:

from $1.60 / 1,000 results

Developer:

Echofield

Categories:

Videos, Social media, Other

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