IMDb-API vs Trakt API

Two free Video APIs compared on access, reliability and developer ratings, using data from our daily health checks.

The verdict

Choose IMDb-API for its data: API for receiving movie, serial and cast information.
Choose Trakt API if you want to call it from browser JavaScript.

	IMDb-API	Trakt API
What it does	API for receiving movie, serial and cast information.	Movie and TV Data. A free video API by trakt.docs.apiary.io.
Provider	imdb-api.com	trakt.docs.apiary.io
API key	Required	Required
HTTPS	Yes	Yes
CORS (browser calls)	Unknown	Yes
Status today	Last check failed	Online · 3706 ms
Uptime (30 days)	Down	Up
Developer rating	Not rated yet	Not rated yet
Price	Free / free tier	Free / free tier

API for receiving movie, serial and cast information.

Strengths

Movie and TV Data. A free video API by trakt.docs.apiary.io.

Strengths

Prototyping or a tutorial? Pick the one that needs no API key (neither does, so compare their free tiers).
Calling from a web page? You need CORS. Otherwise route requests through your own server or a serverless function.
Going to production? Favour HTTPS, a strong uptime record and a provider with clear rate limits and terms. Check each API's docs before you commit.
Still unsure? Both are free to try: send one request to each and compare the data you get back.

Both require authentication (apiKey and apiKey).

Trakt API supports CORS, so front-end JavaScript can call it directly. Call the other from a server.