TVDB

About TVDB

TheTVDB provides an API for accessing television and media metadata, contributed by a community of users. The API supports both commercial projects and individual developers, and is used to power media centers and applications.

Licensing is tiered by the revenue of the company using the API: free (with attribution required) for companies earning less than $50k per year, $1,000/year for $50k-$250k, $10,000/year for $250k-$1M, and custom terms for $1M+. Unless approved otherwise, attribution with a direct link to TheTVDB.com must be displayed to end users viewing metadata from the API; command line products or development libraries may instead display attribution on their about or readme pages.

API documentation, official libraries, and release notes are distributed through TheTVDB's GitHub repository, where API-related issues are reported; separate support channels exist for library issues and for site/data support.

Key features

• API access to TV series, movies, companies, lists, and people metadata
• Community-contributed data from tens of thousands of users
• Official libraries and documentation available via GitHub repo
• Tiered licensing based on parent company revenue

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