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Metacritic API

About Metacritic APIs

Media products such as movies, recordings, and video games are subject to ratings by a variety of critics. It is challenging to get a sense of the quality of a product from a single review. The Metacritic website scrapes the web looking for evaluations. Using a weighted system, it averages the reviews and produces a single score. An API like Metacritic offers developers access to these scores and the critical reviews that create them.

What is the Metacritic API?

There are several APIs devoted to media reviews and metadata. The API hosted by Metacritic is a database of the different media products it has reviewed along with their scores.

How do Metacritic APIs work?

When a developer wants to provide Metacritic ratings, the application makes a GET request from the API, and the data structure returns the requested information. Similar APIs, like the IMDb API, may have more information about the actors and crew involved in production along with reviews.

Who is Metacritic for?

Metacritic began as a way to streamline the media rating system. Its algorithm gives greater weight to reviews from recognized publications. This feature offers consumers a better sense of the quality of a media product. APIs from Metacritic and similar organizations could be used by consumer review sites. Online stores might include the Metacritic score along with the product description. Movie, music, or video game fan sites could also include a section with critical scores.

Why is Metacritic important?

Media reviews can determine the popularity and sales of a product. Moviegoers will avoid a film with a low Metacritic score. Game stores do not stock many copies of poorly-rated video games. Access to accurate review scores helps businesses plan for the season ahead and consumers make informed choices.

What can a developer expect from a Metacritic-type API?

The information on a review API depends on the focus of the host. While the Internet Video Archive API includes information about reviews, its primary focus is on metadata about movies and television shows. Developers can receive information about casts, crew, and current viewing options. The Metacritic API has more data about reviews and scores.

Are there free Metacritic APIs?

While there are few free resources like the Metacritic API, several offer freemium packages for applications that do not make many requests. Commercial applications and websites that reach out to the API frequently must pay a fee for access.

Best Metacritic APIs

Metacritic API SDKs

All Metacritic APIs are supported and made available in multiple developer programming languages and SDKs including:

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Objective-C
Java (Android)
C# (.NET)
cURL

Just select your preference from any API endpoints page.