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Metacritic Scraper
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Scrape Metacritic game, movie, and TV scores and reviews. Returns Metascore, user score, critic count, platform, release date, and summary for each title.
- Total users
- 1
- Monthly active
- 0
- Total runs
- 106
- Bookmarked
- 0
- Rating
- Not rated yet
- Last modified
- 12 days ago
Overview
🎮 Metacritic Scraper - Games, Movies & TV Scores
🚀 Export Metacritic scores, reviews, and metadata in seconds. No API key required - just run and download.
Metacritic is the web's most trusted aggregator of critic and user reviews for games, movies, and TV shows. This actor extracts structured data from Metacritic browse pages - Metascores, user scores, genres, descriptions, release dates, and more - without requiring any credentials or API keys.
Coverage spans all Metacritic titles across games (all platforms), movies, and TV shows. With over 925+ games just from 2024-2025, the full database contains tens of thousands of records across all categories.
| Who uses it | What they do |
|---|---|
| Game developers | Track competitor scores and genre trends |
| Publishers | Monitor user vs. critic score discrepancies |
| Journalists | Research score history for articles |
| Researchers | Analyze entertainment review data |
| Deal sites | Find top-rated games/movies |
| Recommendation engines | Build score-based recommendation datasets |
📋 What the Metacritic Scraper does
- Scrapes games, movies, or TV shows by media type
- Sorts results by Metascore (highest-rated first)
- Filters by platform (PS5, Xbox, PC, Nintendo Switch, etc.)
- Filters by minimum Metascore threshold
- Paginates through all results automatically
- Exports Metascore, user score, genre, release date, description, and more
- Includes direct Metacritic URLs for every record
💡 Why it matters: Metacritic scores directly influence purchasing decisions for millions of consumers and business decisions for publishers. Getting structured score data at scale requires this kind of automated extraction.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: description, genre, imageUrl, metascore, platform, releaseDate, scrapedAt, title, type, url, userscore. All 11 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
🚀 How to use
- Create a free account w/ $5 credit
- Search for Metacritic Scraper in the Apify Store
- Configure your input (media type, max items, optional filters)
- Click Start and wait for results
- Download as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML
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This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Metacritic or CBS Interactive. It scrapes publicly available data in accordance with standard web data extraction practices. Use responsibly and review Metacritic's terms of service before use in commercial applications.
🆘 Need Help?
If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.
For faster answers, join our Discord. It's the best place to get support and suggest new actors.
Input
| Field | Type | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| maxItems | integer | How many titles to collect per run. | 10 |
| mediaType | string (3 options) | Type of media to scrape from Metacritic. | game |
| platform | string | Filter games by platform (e.g. ps5, xbox-series-x, pc, nintendo-switch). Leave blank for all platforms. | not set |
| minMetascore | integer | Only return items with a Metascore at or above this value (0-100). Leave blank for no filter. | not set |
Pricing
from $19.00 per 1,000 results
| Charged for | What it is | Price each |
|---|---|---|
| result | Single result in the default dataset. | $0.019 to $0.021 |
Tiered: the lower figure is the price on a higher Apify plan. Billing and the free credit live on Apify.
API
One POST returns the dataset directly. Same shape for every scraper in the library, so swapping the slug is the only change.
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~metacritic-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"helloWorld": 123
}' Examples
Input that runs as-is.
{
"helloWorld": 123
} Reviews
No reviews yet. Be the first.
Issues
We build and maintain this scraper, so a problem with it comes to us. Report it on the Apify listing and the thread stays attached to the scraper where the next person can find it: open an issue.
Broken and urgent, or you would rather not post in public? Write to parseforge@protonmail.com and it reaches the people who wrote it.