Pull any Metacritic page as JSON: the weighted critic Metascore, the user score, the count of contributing reviews, and the platform or medium each score belongs to.
Metacritic condenses critical reception across games, movies, TV, and music into a single weighted Metascore alongside a separate user score. The Metacritic Scraper API extracts both scores, review counts, and per-platform breakdowns into validated JSON across every medium it covers.
It is suited to release-tracking and reception-benchmarking tools that compare critical and user sentiment over time. Metascores and user scores resolve at request time, with game titles broken out per platform where they differ.
# POST a target — get validated JSON back
curl https://api.crawlzo.com/v4/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $CRAWLZO_KEY" \
-d '{
"url": "https://www.metacritic.com/",
"type": "title",
"geo": "us"
}'
// ← response
{
"status": "ok",
"data": {
"title": "...",
"year": 2024,
"rating": 8.4,
"votes": 184220,
"genres": ["Drama"],
"runtime_min": 128
}
}Metacritic data parsed into clean, validated JSON. Pull any group below on its own, or combine them in a single request.
Cross-medium reception benchmarking
Game launch and platform score tracking
Critic-versus-user score comparison
Release-performance research datasets
Yes. Each page returns the weighted critic Metascore and the user score as distinct fields, with review counts and, for games, a per-platform breakdown where scores differ.
Structured JSON straight from the API, or pushed to your stack natively — S3, BigQuery, Snowflake, Postgres, Kafka, or any HTTPS webhook. Call it from Python, Node, Go, Rust, or any HTTP client. The data lands where your pipeline already lives.
No. You pay for valid, schema-passing rows only. Retries, blocks, CAPTCHAs, and 5xxs are on us. If a run doesn't return data that conforms to the schema, it isn't billed.
Every request routes through the same engine behind our Web Unblocker API: compliant residential IPs, real browser fingerprints, TLS-level evasion, behaviour modelling, and built-in CAPTCHA solving. Hard targets become routine.
Yes. We respect robots policies, rate budgets, and ToS-aware allow/deny lists. We deliver and move on — no row-level retention beyond your replay window. GDPR DPA, PII redaction, and custom data residency available on request.