IMDb Non-Commercial Datasets

Subsets of IMDb data are available for access to customers for personal and non-commercial use. You can hold local copies of this data, and it is subject to our terms and conditions. Please refer to the Non-Commercial Licensing and copyright/license and verify compliance.

Notice

Starting from March 18, 2024 the datasets on this page will be backed by a new data source. There will be no change in location or schema, but if you encounter issues with the datasets following the March 18th update, please contact imdb-data-interest@imdb.com.

Data Location

The dataset files can be accessed and downloaded from https://datasets.imdbws.com/. The data is refreshed daily.

IMDb Dataset Details

Each dataset is contained in a gzipped, tab-separated-values (TSV) formatted file in the UTF-8 character set. The first line in each file contains headers that describe what is in each column. A ‘\N’ is used to denote that a particular field is missing or null for that title/name. The available datasets are as follows:

title.akas.tsv.gz

• titleId (string) - a tconst, an alphanumeric unique identifier of the title
• ordering (integer) – a number to uniquely identify rows for a given titleId
• title (string) – the localized title
• region (string) - the region for this version of the title
• language (string) - the language of the title
• types (array) - Enumerated set of attributes for this alternative title. One or more of the following: "alternative", "dvd", "festival", "tv", "video", "working", "original", "imdbDisplay". New values may be added in the future without warning
• attributes (array) - Additional terms to describe this alternative title, not enumerated
• isOriginalTitle (boolean) – 0: not original title; 1: original title

title.basics.tsv.gz

• tconst (string) - alphanumeric unique identifier of the title
• titleType (string) – the type/format of the title (e.g. movie, short, tvseries, tvepisode, video, etc)
• primaryTitle (string) – the more popular title / the title used by the filmmakers on promotional materials at the point of release
• originalTitle (string) - original title, in the original language
• isAdult (boolean) - 0: non-adult title; 1: adult title
• startYear (YYYY) – represents the release year of a title. In the case of TV Series, it is the series start year
• endYear (YYYY) – TV Series end year. ‘\N’ for all other title types
• runtimeMinutes – primary runtime of the title, in minutes
• genres (string array) – includes up to three genres associated with the title

title.crew.tsv.gz

• tconst (string) - alphanumeric unique identifier of the title
• directors (array of nconsts) - director(s) of the given title
• writers (array of nconsts) – writer(s) of the given title

title.episode.tsv.gz

• tconst (string) - alphanumeric identifier of episode
• parentTconst (string) - alphanumeric identifier of the parent TV Series
• seasonNumber (integer) – season number the episode belongs to
• episodeNumber (integer) – episode number of the tconst in the TV series

title.principals.tsv.gz

• tconst (string) - alphanumeric unique identifier of the title
• ordering (integer) – a number to uniquely identify rows for a given titleId
• nconst (string) - alphanumeric unique identifier of the name/person
• category (string) - the category of job that person was in
• job (string) - the specific job title if applicable, else '\N'
• characters (string) - the name of the character played if applicable, else '\N'

title.ratings.tsv.gz

• tconst (string) - alphanumeric unique identifier of the title
• averageRating – weighted average of all the individual user ratings
• numVotes - number of votes the title has received

name.basics.tsv.gz

• nconst (string) - alphanumeric unique identifier of the name/person
• primaryName (string)– name by which the person is most often credited
• birthYear – in YYYY format
• deathYear – in YYYY format if applicable, else '\N'
• primaryProfession (array of strings)– the top-3 professions of the person
• knownForTitles (array of tconsts) – titles the person is known for