How to Scrape IMDb in 2026: Movies, TV Shows, Ratings and Reviews

IMDb remains the go-to database for movie and TV information. With over 10 million titles and hundreds of millions of ratings, it's a goldmine for data projects — recommendation engines, market analysis, sentiment tracking, and more. In this guide, I'll show you how to scrape IMDb effectively in 2026 with working Python code. IMDb's Structure in 2026 IMDb is still primarily server-rendered HTML, which makes it easier to scrape than heavily JavaScript-dependent sites. However, they've added more dynamic loading and anti-bot protections over the years. Key pages you'll want to scrape: Title pages ( /title/tt1234567/ ) — movie/show details, ratings, cast Search results ( /find/ ) — finding titles by name Charts ( /chart/ ) — top rated, most popular Reviews ( /title/tt1234567/reviews ) — user reviews and ratings Name pages ( /name/nm1234567/ ) — actor/director filmography Basic Scraping with BeautifulSoup Let's start with extracting movie details from a title page: import requests from bs4