# BookMyShow India - Movies, Events & Showtimes Scraper (`thirdwatch/bookmyshow-scraper`) Actor

Scrape movies, events, showtimes, and venues from BookMyShow India. Get title, ratings, cast, genres, price ranges, language, and city-specific listings. Supports city listings and individual movie/event URLs. No login required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/thirdwatch/bookmyshow-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Thirdwatch](https://apify.com/thirdwatch) (community)
- **Categories:** Other, Travel
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 125 total users, 14 monthly users, 97.9% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 4.46 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 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.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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# README

## BookMyShow India - Movies, Events & Showtimes Scraper

> **Thirdwatch portfolio:** 8,800+ users across 140+ public Actors, 2M+ records delivered, >95% run success. [Explore all Thirdwatch Actors](https://apify.com/thirdwatch).

> Scrape movies, concerts, comedy, sports, and workshops from BookMyShow across every Indian city — no login, no API key.

Scrape **movies, live events, concerts, comedy, sports, and workshops** from [in.bookmyshow.com](https://in.bookmyshow.com) across every Indian city. Returns titles, languages, genres, cast, director, runtime, synopsis, event datetime, venue, price, and high-resolution posters.

Built for entertainment analytics, ticket-price intelligence, and competitive tracking in the $2B+ Indian event ticketing market.

### What you get

A clean JSON feed of what's playing and what's happening in any Indian city — movies plus live events, with detail-page enrichment (cast, director, synopsis, venue, price) turned on by default.

> **Important — what `queries` accepts:** Pass **city names** (e.g. `mumbai`, `delhi`, `bangalore`, `chennai`, `kolkata`, `pune`, `hyderabad`, `bengaluru`) **or** direct BookMyShow URLs (`https://in.bookmyshow.com/movies/...` or `.../events/...`). **Do NOT pass movie names or event titles** — search by movie title is not supported. To find a specific movie, pass its city to list everything playing, or pass the movie's BookMyShow URL directly.

### Output fields

#### For movies

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `type` | Always `movie` |
| `title` | Movie name |
| `languages` | Languages the movie is released in |
| `genres` | List of genres |
| `rating` | Censor rating (U / UA / UA16+ / A) |
| `release_date` | As published on BookMyShow |
| `runtime_minutes` | Duration in minutes |
| `synopsis` | Official description |
| `cast` | Array of `{name, url, image}` |
| `director` | Director name (plus `directors` array for multi-director films) |
| `music_by` | Array of music composers |
| `poster_url` | High-resolution poster URL |
| `event_code` | BookMyShow 10-character movie code |
| `slug` | SEO slug |
| `url` | Canonical BookMyShow URL |
| `city` / `scraped_city` | Location scope |

#### For events

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `type` | Always `event` |
| `title` | Event name |
| `category` | Categories (Concerts, Comedy Shows, Workshops, Sports, ...) |
| `genre` | Music genre for concerts (EDM, Pop, Rock, ...) |
| `language` | Primary language |
| `event_date` | Human-readable date |
| `event_time` | Start time |
| `duration` | Duration text |
| `venue_name` | Venue |
| `venue_city` | City component |
| `age_restriction` | Minimum age if any |
| `price_starting_from` | Lowest ticket price |
| `description` | Full About-the-Event copy |
| `poster_url` | Event banner |
| `event_code` | BookMyShow event code |
| `tags` | Tag array (fast-filling, must-attend, age-bucket, ...) |

Every record also includes `data_source: "bookmyshow"` and `scraped_city`.

### Example output

#### Movie

```json
{
    "type": "movie",
    "title": "Bhooth Bangla",
    "slug": "bhooth-bangla",
    "event_code": "ET00411383",
    "url": "https://in.bookmyshow.com/movies/mumbai/bhooth-bangla/ET00411383",
    "languages": ["Hindi"],
    "genres": ["Comedy", "Horror", "Thriller"],
    "rating": "UA16+",
    "release_date": "16 APR, 2026",
    "runtime_minutes": 165,
    "synopsis": "Arjun Acharya, a financially troubled man in his late 30s, unexpectedly inherits his grandfather's massive ancestral palace...",
    "director": "Priyadarshan",
    "cast": [
        {"name": "Akshay Kumar", "url": "https://in.bookmyshow.com/akshay-kumar/94"}
    ],
    "poster_url": "https://assets-in.bmscdn.com/discovery-catalog/events/et00411383-ufeqwqauqg-portrait.jpg",
    "city": "mumbai",
    "scraped_city": "mumbai",
    "data_source": "bookmyshow"
}
```

#### Event

```json
{
    "type": "event",
    "title": "CALVIN HARRIS - Live in Mumbai",
    "slug": "calvin-harris-live-in-mumbai",
    "event_code": "ET00462236",
    "url": "https://in.bookmyshow.com/events/calvin-harris-live-in-mumbai/ET00462236",
    "category": ["music-shows", "concerts"],
    "genre": "edm",
    "language": "english",
    "event_date": "Sat 18 Apr 2026",
    "event_time": "4:00 PM",
    "duration": "6 Hours",
    "venue_name": "Infinity Bay Sewri",
    "venue_city": "Mumbai",
    "price_starting_from": "₹ 3500 onwards",
    "tags": ["outdoor-events", "fast-filling", "must-attend", "unmissable-events"],
    "poster_url": "https://assets-in.bmscdn.com/discovery-catalog/events/et00462236-ktjhyrfvnc-portrait.jpg",
    "city": "mumbai",
    "scraped_city": "mumbai",
    "data_source": "bookmyshow"
}
```

### Input parameters

| Parameter | Required | Description |
|-----------|----------|-------------|
| `queries` | Yes | **Indian city names** (`mumbai`, `delhi`, `bangalore`, `chennai`, `kolkata`, `pune`, `bengaluru`, `hyderabad`, ...) **or** full BookMyShow URLs (`https://in.bookmyshow.com/movies/...` or `.../events/...`). **Movie or event titles are NOT supported** — pass a city to list everything playing, or pass the item's BookMyShow URL directly. |
| `mode` | No | `auto`, `movies`, or `events`. Controls what to pull for city-level queries. Default `auto`. |
| `city` | No | Default city for URL inputs without a city. Default `mumbai`. |
| `includeDetails` | No | Fetch each item's detail page for cast, director, synopsis, and venue details. Adds ~2s per item. Default `true`. |
| `maxResults` | No | Cap on movies + events returned. Default 10, max 10000. |
| `proxy` | No | Proxy configuration. Pre-configured defaults work out of the box. |

### Use cases

- **Entertainment analysts**: track concert lineups, comedy tours, and workshop demand across Indian metros
- **Ticketing & pricing teams**: monitor starting prices across cities for arbitrage signals
- **Marketing & sponsorship**: identify high-reach events by venue, genre, and age bucket
- **Travel & tourism apps**: surface local entertainment for traveler recommendations
- **Automation builders**: feed fresh what's-happening-by-city data into downstream apps and workflows
- **Market researchers**: estimate demand by category (EDM concerts in Mumbai vs Bengaluru)
- **Aggregator sites**: combine BookMyShow listings with IMDb ratings and Google reviews

### Limitations

- **Showtime and seat-selection data requires a logged-in session** and is intentionally not scraped.
- Not every movie page publishes full cast and director; some fields may be empty for very early listings.
- `includeDetails: true` adds roughly 2 seconds per item. Turn it off for listing-only runs.
- Language names appear in BookMyShow's own casing (e.g. `"Hindi"`, `"Tamil"`) — you may want to normalise downstream.

### Compared to alternatives

**No BookMyShow scraper exists on the Apify Store today.** BookMyShow's site is difficult to access reliably at scale, which is likely why. Generic Indian-events APIs (District, Paytm Insider) don't cover BookMyShow's full catalogue and require partnership agreements. This actor is the only structured, on-demand view of the full BookMyShow catalogue across 600+ Indian cities.

### Pairs well with

- [IMDb Scraper](https://apify.com/thirdwatch/imdb-scraper?fpr=9m2cd6) — cross-reference movie listings with IMDb ratings, plot, box-office
- [Google Maps Scraper](https://apify.com/thirdwatch/google-maps-scraper?fpr=9m2cd6) — enrich event venues with address, phone, hours, photos

### FAQ

**Does this include showtimes and seat availability?**
No — showtime and seat-selection data requires a logged-in BookMyShow session. Listings, metadata, prices, and venues are included; live seat-map data is not.

**Which cities are supported?**
Every Indian city BookMyShow serves — Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Kochi, Lucknow, Indore, and 600+ more.

**Can I scrape a single movie or event by URL?**
Yes — just drop the BookMyShow URL into `queries`. The actor will fetch that item directly.

**How fresh is the data?**
Real-time at the moment of the run. Schedule the actor daily or hourly to keep a downstream feed current.

**Is this legal?**
The actor reads publicly accessible pages. No login is required and no seat / purchase flows are touched.

***

Built by [Thirdwatch](https://thirdwatch.dev). Questions? Open an issue or reach out on the Apify Store listing.

Last verified: 2026-04

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Pass Indian CITY NAMES (mumbai, delhi, bangalore, chennai, kolkata, pune, bengaluru, hyderabad, ...) to list every movie + event in that city, OR full BookMyShow URLs (in.bookmyshow.com/movies/... or .../events/...) to scrape that specific item. IMPORTANT: do NOT pass movie titles or event names here — title search is not supported. Use a city to list everything playing, or paste the item's BookMyShow URL.

## `mode` (type: `string`):

What to scrape for city-level queries. 'auto' detects based on input; URL inputs always respect their own type.

## `city` (type: `string`):

Default city used when 'queries' contains a URL without a city, or is left empty. Ignored for direct URL inputs.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch each item's detail page for cast, director, synopsis, runtime, and full metadata. Adds ~2s per item. Turn off for fast listing-only runs.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of movies + events to return. Start small; raise once you've verified the output.

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Proxy configuration. Pre-configured defaults route through India and work for most users.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "Mumbai",
    "Bengaluru"
  ],
  "mode": "auto",
  "city": "mumbai",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxResults": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        "Mumbai",
        "Bengaluru"
    ],
    "maxResults": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("thirdwatch/bookmyshow-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 = {
    "queries": [
        "Mumbai",
        "Bengaluru",
    ],
    "maxResults": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("thirdwatch/bookmyshow-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 '{
  "queries": [
    "Mumbai",
    "Bengaluru"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10
}' |
apify call thirdwatch/bookmyshow-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,thirdwatch/bookmyshow-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/YtcsAkwt3VxmC9AZ5/builds/BtDLr0FzGG1Ze0f7M/openapi.json