Bulk Data Overview

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IMDb Bulk Data provides comprehensive metadata snapshots for the entire IMDb database, distributed through Amazon Data Exchange. Unlike the GraphQL API which is optimized for real-time queries of individual titles or names, bulk data is designed for large-scale data processing, analytics, and applications that need the complete dataset.

What Bulk Data Includes

• Titles — Complete metadata for every movie, TV series, TV episode, mini-series, short film, and video game in the IMDb database
• Names — Full records for every performer, director, writer, producer, and other credited crew member
• Box Office — Lifetime gross figures, opening weekend data, production budgets, and gross time series by territory
• Ratings — Aggregate user ratings and vote counts from over 250 million registered users
• Meters — Popularity rankings: TITLEmeter, TVmeter, MOVIEmeter, and STARmeter, updated daily
• Parents Guide — Content advisory information categorized by type and severity
• GeoMeters — Region-specific popularity rankings for titles and names across major markets

Distribution

Bulk data is distributed through Amazon Data Exchange under the same subscription products as the GraphQL API:

• IMDb Essential Metadata for Movies/TV/OTT — Covers Names, Titles, Meters, Parents Guide, and GeoMeters
• IMDb and Box Office Mojo — Adds Box Office datasets to the above

Data is packaged as JSON Lines files: UTF-8 encoded text files where each line is a single valid JSON object representing one IMDb entity.

Update Frequency

Bulk data is updated daily. New revisions are published to AWS Data Exchange each day, replacing the previous day's revision. Your application should be designed to consume the latest revision on a regular schedule.

Querying at Scale

For analytics and SQL-based exploration, IMDb bulk data integrates directly with Amazon Athena. By creating Athena tables that point to your Data Exchange S3 location, you can run standard SQL queries against the full dataset without downloading or processing the files locally. See the Querying in Athena page for setup instructions and sample queries.

Contact

For licensing inquiries, enterprise access, or questions about the data products, contact:

imdb-licensing@imdb.com