Release Notes

We've launched an enhancement to the IMDb Parents Guide dataset, which now includes free-text descriptions of adult/potentially-harmful on-screen content and themes within the following categories:

1. Sex & Nudity
2. Violence & Gore
3. Profanity
4. Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
5. Frightening & Intense Scenes

The dataset will continue to include the user votes on severity ratings (None, Mild, Moderate, or Severe) for the same five categories. If you would like to evaluate the new version of the Parents Guide dataset, please email imdb-licensing-support@imdb.com

We are excited to announce the launch of IMDb Meters. IMDb Meters provide the ranking of the most popular titles and entertainment professionals on IMDb. The rankings are derived from the interactions of the IMDb audience of over 250 million monthly visitors.

Title Essential v2 updated with eight keyword categories: subgenre; plot-detail; plot-timeframe; other; adult-only; potentially-offensive; character; and title-display. Some keywords are reclassified into new/different keyword categories. In addition, plotLong will be excluded from the fallback logic to populate the plot field. plotLong will still be included in the dataset as a standalone field, but it will not populate plot automatically in the event that plotShort and plotMedium are not available.

Added jobDetails to the Crew type. jobDetails can be used to get CrewJob details and CreditAttribute

Deprecation of the region field in akas, certificates, companies, releaseDates and titleDisplay for Title Essential v2 (and the appropriate fields for the Title Rating v2) dataset

Add names field to Title Essential v2 dataset (providing detailed information about the names of a title's awards).

Add titles field to Name Essentials dataset (providing detailed information about the titles of a person's awards).

Add trademarks field to Name Essentials dataset (providing detailed information about a person's trademarks).

Add death details field to Name Essentials dataset (providing detailed information about a person's death).

Expanded credits to include additional attributes related to the credited name.

We are excited to announce the addition of the "Advanced Title Search" to our API, providing users with our most powerful title search functionality. With this new feature, users can perform highly specific searches by combining various types of information available in our catalog. The Advanced Title Search feature enables users to create customized queries using a range of search criteria. Whether you're looking for Canadian horror movies from the 1970s or any other specific combination of attributes, this feature empowers you to find precisely what you're looking for.

Added creditSummary and primaryProfession to the Name type. The primaryProfession denotes the main occupations associated with that person, whereas the creditSummary provides the numeric count of different categories in which they have worked.

Added distributionFormats to the CompanyCredit type. For distribution companies this field contains the different distribution formats (theatrical, DVD, ...) that the title is distributed in.

Added releaseDateRange to the TitleSearchOptions input. When using the mainSearch top level field to search for titles, the releaseDateRange filter can be included to filter out titles with an earliest release date outside of the provided release date range.

Added deathStatus, deathDate, deathCause and deathLocation to the Name type. DeathStatus can be used to determine whether a person is ALIVE, DEAD or PRESUMED_DEAD. The additional fields provide information about their death, assuming data is available.

The initial release of the GraphQL IMDb API full paid plans are available on AWS Data Exchange: IMDb Ratings for Movies/TV/OTT (API), IMDb Essential Metadata for Movies/TV/OTT (API), IMDb and Box Office Mojo for Movies/TV/OTT (API) and the IMDb Complete Dataset Free Trial (API).

We've launched the IMDb API! Get the latest IMDb data on-demand through our new GraphQL-backed API. As an alternative to extracting data from our bulk datasets, you can now search and query only the exact titles and names you need in the format that works best for you, accessed via AWS Data Exchange. Only limited-time free trials are available from 11/29, with full paid plans to follow.

Add 'country' field to certificates, releaseDates and titleDisplay fields for titles, duplicating the existing 'region' field.

Add trivia field and goofs field for titles, as an optional enhancement to the Title Essential data (providing details about trivia and goofs on a title).

Add color field to Title Essential data (providing details about whether a title is in color or black and white).

Add parents guide field for titles, as an optional enhancement to the Title Essential data (providing details to parents and movie viewers about the title that cannot be fully conveyed by certificates).

Add KeywordsV2 field to Title Essential data (providing more detailed information about keywords).

Add distributionV2 field to Title Essential companies data (providing more detailed information about distributors).

Use OpenX Serde in Athena examples (better support for wide Unicode characters).