# BookMyShow Scraper: Movies, Showtimes and Concerts (`getascraper/bookmyshow-scraper`) Actor

Get movie and event listings from BookMyShow across major Indian cities, with cast, director, synopsis, and runtime for movies, or venue, date, time, and starting price for concerts, plays, and sports matches nationwide. Built for entertainment-listing aggregators and local-event trackers.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/getascraper/bookmyshow-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [GetAScraper](https://apify.com/getascraper) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools, Other
- **Stats:** 23 total users, 4 monthly users, 97.3% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $2.62 / 1,000 showtime or event listings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## 🎬 BookMyShow Scraper

Collect public BookMyShow movie and event listings across major Indian cities—quickly, with a clear option to enrich only the results that need deeper context.

### ✨ Start with a lightweight listing dataset

<table>
<tr>
<td><strong>📍 City listings</strong><br>Titles, ratings, languages, certificates, event categories, and direct public URLs.</td>
<td><strong>⚡ Listing-first by default</strong><br>One compact city discovery run. Detail pages are off until you ask for them.</td>
<td><strong>🔎 Verified enrichment</strong><br>Opt in for publicly published cast, director, synopsis, runtime, venue, schedule, and starting price.</td>
</tr>
</table>

Use the Actor for entertainment research, release tracking, local event discovery, and public ticket-price analysis. It reads only public BookMyShow pages—no login, booking flow, seat map, or seat-availability data.

### 🚀 How it works

1. Choose a supported city and either **Movies** or **Events**.
2. Optionally apply language, certificate, rating, or rated-listing filters.
3. Start with the default listing-only run for a fast, lower-cost dataset.
4. Enable **Enrich with detail pages** only when you need the additional public fields.
5. Open the Dataset tab and select **🔍 Listings**, **🎬 Movie details**, or **🎟️ Event details**.

### 📥 Input

| Field | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Target city | One supported Indian city for public movie or event listings. |
| Scrape mode | **Movies** or **Events**. |
| Filters | Optional language, certificate, rating, and rated-listing filters. |
| Enrich with detail pages | Disabled by default. Adds available public details for each returned result. |
| Max results | 1–100 listings; the default is 8. |
| Proxy configuration | Indian residential proxy required for reliable access. The Apify Residential India default is configured for you. |

### 📤 Output

Every row is a genuine public movie or event listing with `title`, `eventCode`, `url`, `city`, `scrapeMode`, and `scrapedAt`, plus listing fields such as rating, language, certificate, category, or image when published.

When enrichment is enabled, the Actor adds only fields published on the associated public page:

- Movies: cast, director, synopsis, runtime, release date, genres, formats, and detail languages.
- Events: venue, date, time, duration, age limit, artists, description, category, and starting price.

`detailStatus` makes enrichment transparent:

- `not_requested` — listing-only run.
- `enriched` — the public detail page added fields.
- `enrichment_failed` — the listing is returned, but its optional detail page could not be verified.

The **Run summary** output is a non-chargeable diagnostic record containing listing discovery, emitted rows, enrichment outcomes, retries, and completion status.

### 💰 Pricing

The optional search-page and detail-enrichment events take effect on **14 August 2026 at 08:00 UTC**, following Apify's price-change notice period. Until then, successful detail enrichment is returned without charging an unavailable event; after activation, the same verified-search and verified-enrichment conditions below apply.

The existing dataset-result rate remains unchanged. In addition:

| Event | When it is charged | Price |
| --- | --- | ---: |
| BookMyShow verified search | Once after a city listing page is loaded and parsed successfully. Never charged for blocked, malformed, or failed searches. | $0.02500 |
| Movie or event detail enrichment | Once for each result whose public detail page was successfully enriched. | $0.06000 |

Listing-only runs do not incur detail-enrichment charges. See the Actor’s Pricing tab for the dataset-result rate applicable to your plan.

### 🧭 Reliability behavior

The Actor treats block pages, malformed responses, and missing listing structures as failures rather than a successful empty dataset. A genuine empty public listing page can succeed with zero rows. Optional detail-page failures preserve the verified listing row and are identified with `detailStatus`; they are not charged as enrichment.

### ❓ FAQ

**Can I get seat availability or booking-level showtimes?**
No. Those belong to the interactive booking flow and are outside this public-listing Actor’s scope.

**Why are some optional fields absent?**
BookMyShow did not publish them for that listing. The Actor never fabricates missing values.

**Which cities are supported?**
Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, and Chandigarh.

### 🔗 Related Actors

- [SofaScore Scraper: Live scores, stats and fixtures](https://apify.com/getascraper/sofascore-live-events-scraper)
- [Twitch Scraper: channels, live streams, clips and games](https://apify.com/getascraper/twitch-scraper)
- [Kick.com Scraper: Streams, Clips & Channel Data](https://apify.com/getascraper/kick-scraper)

# Actor input Schema

## `scrapeMode` (type: `string`):

Choose public movie listings or public live-event listings for the selected city.

## `city` (type: `string`):

Select the target Indian city for the public listing source.

## `filterByLanguage` (type: `string`):

Movies only. Include listings whose published language contains this value, case-insensitively. Leave empty for all movie languages; event runs reject this unsupported filter.

## `filterByCertification` (type: `string`):

Movies only. Include listings with this published BookMyShow certificate. Leave empty for all; event runs reject this unsupported filter.

## `minRating` (type: `number`):

Include listings with a published BookMyShow user rating at or above this value. Set 0 to disable.

## `onlyWithRating` (type: `boolean`):

Skip listings without a published user rating.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

An Indian residential proxy is required for reliable access to public BookMyShow pages. The secure default uses Apify Residential proxies in India.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Off by default for a fast listing dataset. Enable to visit each returned page and add only publicly published details. A failed detail page still returns its verified listing row.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum emitted rows, never candidate cards or requests. Detail enrichment is bounded to these returned listings.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "scrapeMode": "movies",
  "city": "mumbai",
  "filterByLanguage": "",
  "filterByCertification": "",
  "minRating": 0,
  "onlyWithRating": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "IN"
  },
  "includeDetails": false,
  "maxItems": 8
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

Non-chargeable diagnostics for discovered and emitted listings, enrichment outcomes, retries, and completeness.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "scrapeMode": "movies",
    "city": "mumbai",
    "filterByLanguage": "",
    "filterByCertification": "",
    "minRating": 0,
    "onlyWithRating": false,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "IN"
    },
    "includeDetails": false,
    "maxItems": 8
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("getascraper/bookmyshow-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "scrapeMode": "movies",
    "city": "mumbai",
    "filterByLanguage": "",
    "filterByCertification": "",
    "minRating": 0,
    "onlyWithRating": False,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "IN",
    },
    "includeDetails": False,
    "maxItems": 8,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("getascraper/bookmyshow-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "scrapeMode": "movies",
  "city": "mumbai",
  "filterByLanguage": "",
  "filterByCertification": "",
  "minRating": 0,
  "onlyWithRating": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "IN"
  },
  "includeDetails": false,
  "maxItems": 8
}' |
apify call getascraper/bookmyshow-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,getascraper/bookmyshow-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/e8YBARwYi221k6dvT/builds/EFDYoXxsPHSBNZ5XS/openapi.json