# Metacritic Search Scraper 🎮 🎬 📺 (`easyapi/metacritic-search-scraper`) Actor

A powerful scraper for Metacritic search results that extracts detailed information about games, movies, TV shows, and people. Supports custom search keywords and multiple content types with automated pagination handling.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/easyapi/metacritic-search-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [EasyApi](https://apify.com/easyapi) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Integrations
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 10 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 2 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $4.99 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Metacritic Search Scraper 🎮 🎬 📺

Powerful and flexible scraper for extracting search results from Metacritic.com. Get comprehensive data about games, movies, TV shows, and people with ease!

### Features ✨

- 🔍 Search across multiple content categories (Games, Movies, TV Shows, People)
- 📑 Automatic pagination handling
- 🔄 Smart scroll detection with end-of-results recognition
- 🛡️ Built-in anti-detection mechanisms
- ⚡ High-performance data extraction
- 🎯 Customizable maximum items limit
- 🌐 Proxy support for reliable scraping

### Use Cases 💡

- 🎯 Market research and competitive analysis
- 📊 Content aggregation and curation
- 🔍 Entertainment industry insights
- 📈 Ratings and reviews analysis
- 🎮 Gaming industry research
- 🎬 Movie and TV show data collection

### Input Parameters 📝

- `keywords`: Array of search terms to scrape
- `maxItems`: Maximum number of items to collect (default: unlimited)
- `searchType`: Content category to search (13: Games, 2: Movies, 1: TV Shows, 3: People)
- `proxyConfiguration`: Optional proxy settings for enhanced reliability

### Output 📤

The actor outputs detailed information about each search result, including:

- Title
- Release date
- Rating scores
- Platform/Publisher information
- Review counts
- And more metadata specific to each content type

### Tips 💡

- Use specific keywords for better results
- Adjust maxItems based on your needs
- Consider using proxies for large-scale scraping
- Different searchTypes will yield different data structures

Need help or have questions? Feel free to reach out! 🤝

#### Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

```json
{
	"keywords": ["war"],
    "maxItems": 30,
    "searchType": 13,
}
```

#### Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the **Storage** tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

```json
[
	{
		"id": 1300491829,
		"type": "game-title",
		"typeId": 13,
		"title": "Total War: WARHAMMER II - Curse of the Vampire Coast",
		"slug": "total-war-warhammer-ii-curse-of-the-vampire-coast",
		"images": [],
		"criticScoreSummary": {
			"url": "/game/total-war-warhammer-ii-curse-of-the-vampire-coast/critic-reviews/",
			"score": 83
		},
		"rating": "",
		"releaseDate": "2018-11-08",
		"premiereYear": 2018,
		"genres": [
			{
				"id": null,
				"name": "Real-Time Tactics"
			}
		],
		"platforms": [
			{
				"id": null,
				"name": "PC"
			}
		],
		"seasonCount": 0,
		"description": "Night falls on Lustria. As you stand on the dock and peer seawards through the gathering mists, strain your ears. The jungle sounds behind you fade, and in their place comes a wet thudding, as of rotten rigging against a mouldy mast. The sound multiplies, and with it, the groan of a thousand breathless voices, joined in something part-shanty, part-dirge. Dread prows pierce the gloom ahead, and the ghastly truth is laid bare: upon the ghoul-winds come the swollen hulks and decaying vessels of the Vampire Coast! Run now – run hard and fast. For it is all you can do.\r\n",
		"duration": null,
		"mustSee": false,
		"mustWatch": false,
		"mustPlay": false
	},
    ...
]
```

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# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

List of keywords to search for

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of items to scrape

## `searchType` (type: `string`):

Type of content to search (13: Games, 2: Movies, 1: TV Shows, 3: People)

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings for the crawler

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "war"
  ],
  "maxItems": 30,
  "searchType": "13",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("easyapi/metacritic-search-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("easyapi/metacritic-search-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call easyapi/metacritic-search-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,easyapi/metacritic-search-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/I7s0jfvglbHFfqTk3/builds/uWscmgfGOyODmNDue/openapi.json