# AgentUtility Movie & TV Database API

> AgentUtility Movie & TV Database API is a paid API for AI agents from x402.agentutility.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Searches movies and TV shows by title and optional year, returning metadata including release date, rating, popularity, overview, poster URLs, TMDB links, and an optional provider summary.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/movie-database-api
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentutility-movie-tv-database-api-d299b45b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_0FjCzCh4dAEqvw2tTCNm8

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agentutility-movie-tv-database-api-d299b45b -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the TMDB metadata for Inception (2010) — I need the release date, rating, popularity score, overview, and a poster URL?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured film or TV metadata (ratings, release dates, overviews, posters, TMDB links) for a specific title and optionally a year, especially in agentic workflows that require USDC micro-payment settlement via x402. Prefer it over scraping TMDB directly when you need a simple, agent-callable, pay-per-use API without managing TMDB API keys.

## Known failure modes

- Title not found in TMDB — returns empty results or error
- Ambiguous title with no year provided — may return wrong match
- Invalid or missing required title parameter — returns validation error
- Payment failure via x402 — call rejected before execution
- TMDB upstream unavailable — service returns error or timeout

## How this service works

Movie database API / TV database API / TMDB metadata lookup. Searches movies and TV shows by title and optional year, returning release date, rating, popularity, overview, poster URLs, TMDB links, and optional provider summary.

## Output

Returns structured metadata for the matched movie or TV show, including release date, audience rating, popularity score, plot overview, poster image URLs, a direct TMDB link, and optionally a provider-generated summary of the title.

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "query": "Dune Part Two",
  "returned": 1,
  "top_match": {
   "type": "movie",
   "title": "Dune: Part Two",
   "tmdb_id": 693134,
   "release_year": 2024,
   "vote_average": 8.1
  },
  "attribution": "Data: TMDB (https://www.themoviedb.org). Watch-provider data from JustWatch where included.",
  "provider_summary_for_top_match": {
   "rent": [
    {
     "name": "Amazon Video"
    }
   ],
   "region": "US",
   "flatrate": [
    {
     "name": "Max"
    }
   ]
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentutility-movie-tv-database-api-d299b45b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.agentutility.ai](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.agentutility.ai/llms.txt)