/rottentomatoes/movies/search

POST /api/rottentomatoes/movies/search

Price: 1 credit

Browse and discover Rotten Tomatoes movies with faceted filters: collection (in theaters, at home, coming soon), sort, genres, MPAA ratings, Tomatometer and Popcornmeter status and streaming providers. Returns titles with both scores and poster.

How to use it

Discover Rotten Tomatoes movies by faceted filters instead of a keyword. Choose a category (in theaters / at home / coming soon), order by popular/newest/top box office, and filter by genres, MPAA ratings, Tomatometer status (certified_fresh/fresh/rotten), Popcornmeter status (verified_hot/upright/spilled) and streaming providers. Each result has id, media_type, slug, url, name, release_text, image, tomatometer and popcornmeter. Set count for how many to return.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• category string — Which movie collection to browse (default: "movies_at_home"; one of: "movies_in_theaters", "movies_at_home", "movies_coming_soon")
• sort string — Result ordering (default: "popular"; one of: "popular", "newest", "top_box_office")
• genres array — Filter by one or more genres (default: []; one of: "action", "adventure", "animation", "anime", "biography", "comedy", "crime", "documentary", "drama", "entertainment", "faith_and_spirituality", "fantasy", "game_show", "health_and_wellness", "history", "holiday", "horror", "house_and_garden", "kids_and_family", "lgbtq", "music", "musical", "mystery_and_thriller", "nature", "news", "reality", "romance", "sci_fi", "short", "soap", "special_interest", "sports", "stand_up", "talk_show", "travel", "variety", "war", "western")
• ratings array — Filter by one or more MPAA ratings (default: []; one of: "g", "pg", "pg_13", "r", "nc_17", "nr", "ur")
• tomatometer string nullable — Filter by Tomatometer (critics) status (one of: "certified_fresh", "fresh", "rotten")
• popcornmeter string nullable — Filter by Popcornmeter (audience) status (one of: "verified_hot", "upright", "spilled")
• affiliates array — Filter by streaming/where-to-watch providers (default: []; one of: "theaters", "fandango-at-home", "apple-tv", "apple-tv-plus", "netflix", "prime-video", "disney-plus", "max", "peacock", "hulu", "paramount-plus", "amc-plus", "acorn-tv")
• count integer required — Max number of results to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "RottentomatoesBrowseItem")
• id string nullable
• media_type string nullable
• slug string nullable
• url string required
• name string nullable
• release_text string nullable
• image string nullable
• tomatometer integer nullable
• popcornmeter integer nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.