TMDB

The movie and TV database — posters, ratings, cast and trending titles.

StatusFree key required

AuthenticationFree API key (signup)

Browser CORSYes — works from front-end code

Free limitsFree key for non-commercial

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🔑 Needs a free key

This API is free but asks you to sign up for a key first — it takes about a minute on the official site. Grab the key, then call it with the snippets below.

💻 Copy-paste code

Three ways to call TMDB — pick your weapon.

// TMDB — no build step, no library. Just fetch.
const res = await fetch("https://developer.themoviedb.org/");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

# TMDB with Python requests
import requests

r = requests.get("https://developer.themoviedb.org/")
print(r.status_code)
print(r.json())

# TMDB from your terminal
curl "https://developer.themoviedb.org/"

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