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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
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Czech and Slovak web project providing a movie database
Very close - 03
movie recommendation website
Very close - 04
MusicBrainz - the open music encyclopedia
online music metadata database
Very close - 05
Asian film and drama database
Very close - 06
All The Tropes
online wiki hosted on Miraheze/WikiTide listing conventions found in fictional works, fork of TV Tropes
Very close - 07
American website specializing in legal information retrieval
Very close - 08
social network service for films
Very close - 09
Wikidata
free multilingual online knowledge graph
Very close - 10
O2TvSeries Official - Download TV Series and TV Shows for Free
O2TvSeries - Official Site for TV Shows and TV Series. Free Download TV Shows, Free Download Tv Series and much more, 02tvseries, o2tvseries.com, o2 tv series
Very close - 11
Samba TV
online service
Very close - 12
Movie Reviews, TV Reviews, Game Reviews, and Music Reviews - Metacritic
Metacritic aggregates music, game, tv, and movie reviews from the leading critics. Only Metacritic.com uses METASCORES, which let you know at a glance how each item was reviewed.
Very close - 13
Video API for developers | Mux
Mux helps teams ship high-performance and cost-effective video in minutes, not months. Build better video into anything from websites to platforms to AI workflows.
Very close - 14
Stremio - Freedom to Stream
Watch videos, movies, TV series and TV channels instantly.
Very close - 15
AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga
Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!
Very close - 16
Episode
video game developer
Very close - 17
wiki hosting service and domain
Very close - 18
streaming media service
Very close - 19
ReelShort: Every Second Is Drama
Dive into ReelShort, your must-watch online theater for HD short dramas and vertical stories. From werewolf and billionaire romances to mafia tales and campus love, we've got your quick fix for movies and TV series.
Very close - 20
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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
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 23 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