TMDB MCP Server runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 95 installs a week from npm. Last commit 22 Oct 2026.
MCP server for The Movie Database (TMDB) with IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes/Metacritic ratings via OMDb.
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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 -e 'TMDB_API_TOKEN=<TMDB_API_TOKEN>' -- npx -y tmdb-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"tmdb-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"tmdb-mcp"
],
"env": {
"TMDB_API_TOKEN": "<TMDB_API_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.tmdb-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "tmdb-mcp"]
env = { TMDB_API_TOKEN = "<TMDB_API_TOKEN>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"tmdb-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"tmdb-mcp"
],
"env": {
"TMDB_API_TOKEN": "<TMDB_API_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"tmdb-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"tmdb-mcp"
],
"env": {
"TMDB_API_TOKEN": "<TMDB_API_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<TMDB_API_TOKEN> (Required. TMDB v4 'Read Access Token' from themoviedb.org/settings/api (sent as a Bearer token)).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
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).
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