Guides
How to get cinema showtimes as JSON in France and the United States, with working examples and step-by-step tutorials.
Guides
- Cinema showtimes API for FranceGet the showtimes of about 2,000 French cinemas as JSON, from Pathé and UGC multiplexes to art-house screens: by city, around a point, by film. Examples with curl and JavaScript.
- Movie showtimes API for US theatersShowtimes of more than 3,000 US movie theaters as JSON (AMC, Regal, Cinemark, Alamo Drafthouse and independents): around a location, by city, by film, with booking links.
- Allociné API: an alternative for French showtimesAllociné no longer offers a public API. How to get the showtimes of French cinemas as JSON instead, and keep using Allociné film ids to match your existing data.
- Google showtimes API: getting movie times as JSONGoogle shows movie times in its results but has no showtimes API. How to get the same data, theaters, films and times, as JSON for France and the United States.
- Pathé and UGC showtimes APIThe showtimes of every Pathé and UGC cinema in France as JSON: versions, IMAX, 4DX and Dolby screenings, rooms and booking links, in one format with the other French cinemas.
- Fandango API alternative for US movie showtimesFandango has no open API for developers. How to get the showtimes of about 3,000 US theaters as JSON, AMC, Regal, Cinemark and independents, with booking links.
Tutorials
- Show a cinema’s showtimes on WordPressA small WordPress plugin with a shortcode that displays a cinema’s programme for the coming days, kept up to date and cached, in about 80 lines of PHP.
- A Discord bot for today’s movie showtimesBuild a /showtimes slash command in Node.js with discord.js: today’s films in any French or US city, with cinemas and times, in three small files.
- Movie showtimes in Next.js: cinema pages with cached API callsBuild the cinemas of a city and the programme of each cinema with Next.js 16 Server Components, and cache every API answer for an hour with use cache. For France and the US.
- Movie showtimes API in Python: tonight, a week in CSV, a film near youThree Python scripts with requests and pandas: what’s on tonight in a city, a week of showtimes exported to CSV, and the next screenings of a film around a point. France and US.