Sources

Where catalog data comes from, and what belongs to Showescape.

TVmaze

Show titles, summaries, networks, genres, cast and crew we import via the official TVmaze API are provided under CC BY-SA. We credit TVmaze as the source and link back to them.

tvmaze.com · API · CC BY-SA 4.0

TheTVDB

Additional cast and person filmography may be enriched from TheTVDB API, matched to series via TheTVDB / IMDb identifiers. Attribution is required under their API license.

thetvdb.com · API licensing

Showescape data

These are created on Showescape and are not TVmaze content: curator picks and notes, plot-completion labels, user accounts, favorites, user ratings, reviews, and personalized recommendations.

How we fetch

We use official HTTP APIs (TVmaze, TheTVDB) with rate limits respected — not HTML scraping. Poster files may be cached on our CDN for performance; takedown requests are honored.