Trakt API vs TVMaze API

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

The verdict

Choose Trakt API if you want to call it from browser JavaScript, HTTPS.
Choose TVMaze API if you want to start without an API key, faster responses.

	Trakt API	TVMaze API
What it does	Movie and TV Data. A free video API by trakt.docs.apiary.io.	Add television information to your own website or app with a fast and clean TV API.
Provider	trakt.docs.apiary.io	TVmaze
API key	Required	Not needed
HTTPS	Yes	No
CORS (browser calls)	Yes	Unknown
Status today	Online · 3706 ms	Online · 956 ms
Uptime (30 days)	Up	Up
Developer rating	Not rated yet	Not rated yet
Price	Free / free tier	Free / free tier

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

Strengths

Add television information to your own website or app with a fast and clean TV API.

Add television information to your own website or app with a fast and clean TV API. Add schedules, show, episode, cast information, ...

Strengths

Prototyping or a tutorial? Pick the one that needs no API key.
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.

Trakt API requires an API key; TVMaze API doesn't, so TVMaze API is quicker to try.

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