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Unofficial keyless IMDb-style movie and series search

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A free, no-key search API that returns IMDb-style records for movies and shows — titles, years, IMDb IDs, cast and poster art — from a simple q query. It is the backend that powers the IMDbOT Telegram bot. Open CORS and JSON responses.

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Docs ↗
Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 0 · dead
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Uptime history
25.5%90 days
0.0%30 days
1208P50 · ms
1739P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 754 ms, slowest 1644 ms, most recent 1270 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://imdb.iamidiotareyoutoo.com/search?q=interstellar

{
  "ok": true,
  "description": [
    {
      "#TITLE": "Interstellar",
      "#YEAR": 2014,
      "#IMDB_ID": "tt0816692",
      "#ACTORS": "Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway",
      "#IMDB_URL": "https://imdb.com/title/tt0816692"
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://imdb.iamidiotareyoutoo.com/search?q=interstellar"
const res = await fetch("https://imdb.iamidiotareyoutoo.com/search?q=interstellar");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://imdb.iamidiotareyoutoo.com/search?q=interstellar")
print(res.json())

THIS API IS DEAD — NOTHING TO RUN

Endpoints · 3DeadFULL DOCS ↗
Offline — GET /search?q=interstellar no longer responds reliably
GET/search?q=interstellarPROBED

Unofficial keyless IMDb-style movie and series search

GET/search?limit=5

Search by query parameters.

GET/search?page=1

Search by query parameters.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

IMDbOT: common questions

Is IMDbOT free to use?

Yes — IMDbOT is a free media API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does IMDbOT need an API key?

No — IMDbOT needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call IMDbOT from the browser?

Not directly — IMDbOT doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is IMDbOT up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, IMDbOT is dead with 25.5% uptime over 90 days and a 1208 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.