71.8M listings
Every country's schedule under one key, one shape and one set of ids.
GET /v1/now
What every channel in a country is showing this minute, with the next programme after it.
MIT, no lock-in
Every lab tool reads only the public API with your own key, so it runs on the free key.
Working normally
Checked every minute from outside our own servers.
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Sign in with Google and your free key is made straight away on your account page. It is shown once, so copy it then; we keep only a fingerprint of it. No card is needed.
Quick start: https://tvguideapi.com/documentation/quick-start
In the Authorization header, as a bearer token: Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY. Every endpoint is on api.tvguideapi.com; the quick start has a first call ready to copy.
Authentication: https://tvguideapi.com/documentation/authentication
Yesterday and today, on listings, now and next, and channels, in every country. 50 calls a day, reset at 00:00 UTC. Shows, films and events come back empty until you upgrade.
Plans and prices: https://tvguideapi.com/pricing
No. Every key, free ones included, reads the real guide.
Quick start: https://tvguideapi.com/documentation/quick-start
Calls past your daily or monthly allowance get 429 quota_exceeded with the time it resets. Going over the per-minute rate gets 429 rate_limited with a Retry-After header. Nothing is ever billed for going over.
Rate limits: https://tvguideapi.com/documentation/rate-limits
We cannot: only its fingerprint is kept. Rotate it on your account page instead. You get a new key at once and the old one keeps working for 24 hours, so you can deploy the new one first.
Your keys: https://tvguideapi.com/account
One on the Free key and Live, two on Archive, five on Complete.
Plans and prices: https://tvguideapi.com/pricing
Every time is UTC, written as ISO 8601 with a Z, such as 2026-10-12T19:00:00Z. Convert to your viewer's zone on your side.
Times and days: https://tvguideapi.com/documentation/times-and-days
On Archive and Complete, listings go back to 2010 and episodes back to 1908. The Free key and Live read from yesterday.
Plans and prices: https://tvguideapi.com/pricing
Some providers list channels they publish no schedule for. Open a ticket with the channel's name and country and we will look for another source.
Channels by country: https://tvguideapi.com/channels
We compare every source carrying a channel, every day. A schedule out of line with the others is corrected or left out, and summer-time changes are handled per zone. If you still see one, open a ticket with the channel and the time.
Where the data comes from: https://tvguideapi.com/documentation/sources
Any time from your account. An upgrade opens at once on the same key; a move down applies at the end of the period you have paid for. Yearly billing costs ten months.
Plan and billing: https://tvguideapi.com/account/billing
Account, Plan and billing, then Card, invoices, cancel. Access runs to the end of the period you have paid for; the unused part is not refunded.
Plan and billing: https://tvguideapi.com/account/billing
DEVELOPERDATA.NET. For any question about a charge, see developerdata.net/support: https://developerdata.net/support?tab=charge.
Refunds: https://tvguideapi.com/refunds
Through the refund form: https://tvguideapi.com/support/new/refund, a ticket with Billing chosen. Refunds are for our own mistakes, as the refunds page sets out.
Refunds: https://tvguideapi.com/refunds
Add the MCP server https://tvguideapi.com/mcp to any MCP client that can send a header, with your key as the bearer token. Ask it what is on, and it answers from the guide.
Claude and agents: https://tvguideapi.com/documentation/claude-and-agents
Yes: /skill.md: https://tvguideapi.com/skill.md teaches an agent every endpoint, and /llms.txt: https://tvguideapi.com/llms.txt lists the documentation.
Agent skills: https://tvguideapi.com/documentation/agent-skills-index
Yes, in your own apps, sites and screens. Reselling or republishing the data itself, as a feed or API of your own, is not allowed.
Terms: https://tvguideapi.com/terms
Account, Plan and billing, Delete my account. Your keys stop at once and your account is deleted within 30 days; billing records stay as the law requires.
Privacy: https://tvguideapi.com/privacy
Not answered here? Open a ticket: a person answers, usually within a working day.