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TMDB MCP Server

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TMDB MCP Server runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 69 installs a week from npm. Last commit 24 Aug 2026.

MCP server for The Movie Database (TMDB) with IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes/Metacritic ratings via OMDb.

Installs per day peak 411 · avg 106 · -35% w/w
a month agotoday
69
Installs / week
npm · tmdb-mcp
4
Stars
0 open issues
24 Aug 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check TMDB MCP Server every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add tmdb-mcp -- npx -y tmdb-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tmdb-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tmdb-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.tmdb-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "tmdb-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tmdb-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tmdb-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tmdb-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tmdb-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: TMDB_API_TOKEN (Required. TMDB v4 'Read Access Token' from themoviedb.org/settings/api (sent as a Bearer token).), OMDB_API_KEY (Optional. Free key from omdbapi.com — enables IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes/Metacritic ratings.), TMDB_LANGUAGE (Optional. Default response language as ISO-639-1, optionally with a region (e.g. ru-RU, en-US, ja).), TMDB_REGION (Optional. Default ISO-3166-1 country code (e.g. US, RU, GB) for region-specific results.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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TMDB MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for TMDB MCP Server?
TMDB MCP Server runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package tmdb-mcp was installed 69 times last week.
How do I connect TMDB MCP Server?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls tmdb-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use TMDB MCP Server?
The npm package tmdb-mcp was installed 69 times in the last week. Week over week that is -35%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is TMDB MCP Server open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 4 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.