thetvdb.com
TheTVDB
Who runs TheTVDB, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest TV and film database alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- themoviedb.org
Measured from TheTVDB’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit TheTVDB01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs TheTVDB
TheTVDB thetvdb.com
Wikidata: wiki-like site for TV series
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What TheTVDB tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
6 of the 9 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to TheTVDB
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to TheTVDB, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
free, collaborative database about films
Very close - 02
online database of information related to films, television series, and video games
Very close - 03
Making sure you're not a bot!
Czech and Slovak web project providing a movie database
Very close - 04 Trakt.tv trakt.tv
film and TV episode rating website
Very close - 05
movie recommendation website
Very close - 06
Filmweb - filmy takie jak Ty!
Filmweb.pl - Filmy takie jak Ty Filmweb to największy i najczęściej odwiedzany polski serwis filmowy. Największa baza filmów, seriali i aktorów, repertuar kin i tv, premiery, nowości...
Very close - 07
A girl jumps into a pool because a man tells her that if she loves him, she will jump off the diving board.
Very close - 08
MusicBrainz - the open music encyclopedia
online music metadata database
Very close - 09
The Numbers - Where Data and the Movie Business Meet
The Numbers provides detailed movie financial analysis, including box office, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, and release schedules.
Very close - 10
JustWatch - The Streaming Guide
All your streaming services in one app.
Very close - 11 JamBase jambase.com
jam band-focused database and news website
Very close - 12 Very close
- 13
setlist.fm - the setlist wiki
Over 10,680,000 concert setlists of more than 481,400 artists including tour and song statistics, personal statistics, videos and much more.
Very close - 14
Asian film and drama database
Very close - 15
All The Tropes
online wiki hosted on Miraheze/WikiTide listing conventions found in fictional works, fork of TV Tropes
Very close - 16
American digital media company
Very close - 17 Musixmatch musixmatch.com
online music lyrics database
Very close - 18
Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
website on heavy metal bands
Very close - 19
Кинопоиск. Онлайн кинотеатр. Фильмы сериалы мультфильмы и энциклопедия
Поиск фильмов, новости кино, отзывы пользователей, афиша кинотеатров, фотографии, постеры, трейлеры, кассовые сборы и многое другое.
Very close - 20
social network service for films
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles TheTVDB’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones TheTVDB uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what TheTVDB adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 16 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 26 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to TheTVDB’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- React asset https://unpkg.com/react@17.0.2/umd/react.production.min.js
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/autocomplete.js/0/autocomplete.jquery.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Noto+Sans:400,700&subset=latin,cyrillic-ext,latin…
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: gtag('config', 'G-
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: PkdeCmAU23E_PiXwsyCnTl6ygjSzUCIdTls1r4CqpP1XphyB2oNYPg==
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/instantsearch.js@3.5.3
- unpkg asset https://unpkg.com/react@17.0.2/umd/react.production.min.js
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Site search
- Algolia page source: algoliasearch
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net ~all
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-550.awsdns-04.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=f-fCWc2u1dzQSdPzix74BcjCIVcpeJ-MtgG53vs0cTU
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Cloudflare · not on thetvdb.com 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on thetvdb.com 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on thetvdb.com 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on thetvdb.com 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on thetvdb.com 4/20
- Apple Business · not on thetvdb.com 3/20
- Atlassian · not on thetvdb.com 3/20
- Google Analytics 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on thetvdb.com 3/20
- Zendesk · not on thetvdb.com 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront 2/20
- Matomo · not on thetvdb.com 2/20
- Sentry · not on thetvdb.com 2/20