Common workflows
- Pre-release sentiment — for sequels or remakes, pull the original's reviews to surface what fans loved/hated; use it to inform marketing messaging for the new release.
- Critical-vs-audience gap — combine an IMDB user-review export with a Rotten Tomatoes critic export (manually) to chart "audience score - critic score" gap by sub-segment.
- Streaming platform research — bulk-export reviews of a streaming platform's top 50 titles to understand the most-praised genres and themes.
- Film studies / academia — bulk-export reviews of films across decades or genres for discourse / NLP analysis.
- Spoiler-free sentiment scoring — filter
spoiler = falsebefore sentiment scoring to keep your analysis clean.
About IMDB's curated sort
IMDB's default "curated" sort surfaces what its algorithm thinks are the highest-quality reviews first. The exporter respects whatever sort you have in the URL — pass ?sort=submissionDate&dir=desc for chronological, ?ratingFilter=10 for only 10/10 reviews, etc.
Plan limits
Per-title size scales with your plan. Free (no signup): up to 100 reviews per title. Personal: 5,000. Premium: 50,000. Business: 250,000 — see pricing for the full feature comparison and API tiers for the API-specific limits.