Tmdb MCP Server

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

claude mcp add tmdb-mcp-server -e 'TMDB_API_KEY=<TMDB_API_KEY>' -- npx -y @cyanheads/tmdb-mcp-server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tmdb-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/tmdb-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TMDB_API_KEY": "<TMDB_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.tmdb-mcp-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@cyanheads/tmdb-mcp-server"]
env = { TMDB_API_KEY = "<TMDB_API_KEY>" }

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tmdb-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/tmdb-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TMDB_API_KEY": "<TMDB_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "tmdb-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/tmdb-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TMDB_API_KEY": "<TMDB_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Put your own value in place of <TMDB_API_KEY> (TMDB v4 API Read Access Token (JWT). Sent as 'Authorization: Bearer'. Create one at https://www.themoviedb.org/settings/api). The author’s registry entry marks it as required.

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: TMDB_LANGUAGE (Default response language as ISO 639-1, optionally with region (e.g. 'en-US'). Per-call language overrides it), TMDB_DEFAULT_REGION (ISO 3166-1 country example in discovery missing-watch_region errors; never a query default), MCP_HTTP_HOST (The hostname for the HTTP server), MCP_HTTP_PORT (The port to run the HTTP server on), MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATH (The endpoint path for the MCP server), MCP_AUTH_MODE (Authentication mode to use: 'none', 'jwt', or 'oauth'), MCP_LOG_LEVEL (Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn')), MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE (Selects the HTTP transport).