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hooshid/metacritic-scraper
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Library for retrieving movie, game, album, tv, person, video, company, story information from metacritic.com

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Metacritic Scraper
==================

[](#metacritic-scraper)

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Using this Metacritic API, you are able to search, browse and extract data of movies and tv series on metacritic.com.

Install
-------

[](#install)

This library scrapes metacritic.com so changes their site can cause parts of this library to fail. You will probably need to update a few times a year.

### Requirements

[](#requirements)

- PHP >= 8.0
- PHP cURL extension

### Install via composer

[](#install-via-composer)

```
$ composer require hooshid/metacritic-scraper
```

Run examples
------------

[](#run-examples)

The example gives you a quick demo to make sure everything's working, some sample code and lets you easily see some available data.

From the example folder in the root of this repository start up php's inbuilt webserver and browse to http://localhost:8000

`php -S localhost:8000`

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

### Get movie data

[](#get-movie-data)

#### Movie: The Matrix (1999) / URL:

[](#movie-the-matrix-1999--url-httpswwwmetacriticcommoviethe-matrix)

```
$metacritic = new Hooshid\MetacriticScraper\Metacritic();
$extract = $metacritic->extract("/movie/the-matrix");
$result = $extract['result'];
$error = $extract['error'];

// get all available data as json
echo json_encode($extract);
```

in above example we first create a new obj from Metacritic() class, then we call extract method and give the metacritic.com url in first param.

if everything ok, result key filled and if not, the error key filled with error occurred

#### Tv Series: Game of Thrones (2011-2019) / URL:

[](#tv-series-game-of-thrones-2011-2019--url-httpswwwmetacriticcomtvgame-of-thrones)

```
$metacritic = new Hooshid\MetacriticScraper\Metacritic();
$extract = $metacritic->extract("/tv/game-of-thrones");
$result = $extract['result'];
$error = $extract['error'];

if ($error) {
    echo $error;
} else {
    echo $result['type']; // type (movie, tv, game, person and ...)
    echo $result['title']; // movie/series title
    echo $result['thumbnail']; // Poster thumbnail
    echo $result['summary']; // Summary
    echo $result['release_year']; // Release year
    echo $result['must_see']; // Must see?

    echo $result['meta_score']; // Meta Score
    echo $result['meta_votes']; // Meta Votes
    echo $result['user_score']; // User Score
    echo number_format($result['user_votes']); // User Votes
}
```

you must always catch error first then get results.

### Search

[](#search)

```
$metacritic = new Hooshid\MetacriticScraper\Metacritic();
$result = $metacritic->search("it");

// get all available data as json
echo json_encode($result);
```

```
$metacritic = new Hooshid\MetacriticScraper\Metacritic();
$result = $metacritic->search("it", 0, "movie");

// output
{
  "results": [
    {
      "full_url": "https://www.metacritic.com/movie/it",
      "url": "/movie/it",
      "url_slug": "it",
      "title": "It",
      "description": "When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of...",
      "year": 2017,
      "type": "movie",
      "meta_score": 69,
      "must_see": false,
      "score_class": "positive"
    },
    {
        ...
    }
  ],
  "paginate": {
    "current_page": 0,
    "last_page": 16,
    "per_page": 10
  }
}
```

in above example we give 2 new param to method, $page must be integer as paginate.

$type by default return all, but you can specify this param to (all, movie, tv, person)

### Full examples

[](#full-examples)

just open the example folder, we put all examples and methods demo for you in there!

Related projects
----------------

[](#related-projects)

- [IMDb Scraper](https://github.com/hooshid/imdb-scraper)
- [Rottentomatoes Scraper](https://github.com/hooshid/rottentomatoes-scraper)

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.

###  Health Score

50

—

FairBetter than 96% of packages

Maintenance84

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity24

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 98.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~76 days

Recently: every ~67 days

Total

23

Last Release

81d ago

Major Versions

0.1.4 → 1.0.02022-06-11

1.2.1 → 2.0.02024-03-31

2.4.3 → 3.0.02025-09-01

PHP version history (2 changes)0.1.0PHP >=7.3

1.2.1PHP >=8.0

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

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###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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