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TVMaze

Search TV shows, episodes and cast from a community DB

🎬 MediaHEALTHYchecked 2h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ✗

TVMaze exposes a keyless REST API for television metadata: show details, episode lists, air schedules, cast and crew. Query by name or ID and get clean JSON back, with no signup on the free tier.

95HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 95 · healthy
Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
479P50 · ms
927P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 43 ms, slowest 878 ms, most recent 67 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://api.tvmaze.com/search/shows?q=girls

[
  {
    "score": 0.90090525,
    "show": {
      "id": 139,
      "name": "Girls",
      "type": "Scripted",
      "language": "English",
      "genres": [
        "Drama",
        "Romance"
      ],
      "status": "Ended",
      "premiered": "2012-04-15"
    }
  }
]
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.tvmaze.com/search/shows?q=girls"
const res = await fetch("https://api.tvmaze.com/search/shows?q=girls");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.tvmaze.com/search/shows?q=girls")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 4HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /shows/1479 mschecked 2h ago
GET/shows/1PROBED

Show metadata, schedule and cast.

GET/search/shows?q=breaking%20bad

Search TV shows by title.

GET/schedule?country=US&date=2026-07-05

Airing schedule for a country and date.

GET/shows/1/episodes

Episode list for a show.

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.

TVMaze: common questions

Is TVMaze free to use?

Yes — TVMaze is a free media API. Free tier: Free for personal/non-commercial use, no key. The free tier is for non-commercial use.

Does TVMaze need an API key?

No — TVMaze needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (At least 20 calls per 10 seconds per IP (per docs)).

Can I call TVMaze from the browser?

Yes — TVMaze returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is TVMaze up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, TVMaze is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 479 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.