Is there a free API for TV show schedules and episode data?

The TVmaze API is free, requires no authentication and returns JSON for every TV show, including schedules by country and date, full future episode listings via /schedule/full, seasons, cast and crew. Data is licensed commercial delivery terms-SA 4.0, so derivatives must credit TVmaze and stay share-alike; an Enterprise API covers projects needing different terms.

Does the TVmaze API require an integration key?

No. The main TVmaze API is unauthenticated - schedule, show and episode endpoints respond to plain HTTPS requests with no registration step, and shows paginate at 250 records per page. A separate user-level API documented at static.tvmaze.com/apidoc/ is reserved for Premium members, and an Enterprise API exists for projects needing different licence terms or SLAs.

Can I use TV show schedule data commercially?

It depends on the provider. TVmaze allows commercial use under commercial delivery terms-SA 4.0 with credit and share-alike derivatives. TMDB bars business use without written authorization and explicitly prohibits LLM-based query systems and AI training on its data. TheTVDB is free only under $50k annual company revenue; $50k-$250k pays $1,000 per year and $250k-$1M pays $10,000 per year.

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Tv Show Schedules And Episode Data: Dataset Structure and Field Coverage

Datadory delivers tv show schedules and episode data covering comprehensive field definitions, entity mappings, and historical time series — structured for direct analytics and delivered on demand.

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What about schedules for news broadcasts instead of entertainment?

Pair the two and you cover both halves of a broadcast day: TVmaze for the forward-looking entertainment grid, the TV News Archive for the historical news record behind it.

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Broadcasting Worldwide, with schedules selectable by ISO country code

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Tv Show Schedules And Episode Data: Dataset Structure and Field Coverage

What about schedules for news broadcasts instead of entertainment?

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TheTVDB - TV and Film Metadata Database

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