ČSFD

CSFD API 🎬 + CSFD Export 💾 + CSFD MCP 🤖

Modern TypeScript NPM library for scraping CSFD.CZ. Scraper, API Rest Server, Exporter and MCP Server in one package. _(unofficial)_

Features • Installation • Quick Start • API Reference • CLI • MCP Server • Docker

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✨ Features

• 🎯 Type-safe - Full TypeScript support with type definitions
• 🧪 Well-tested - ~100% code coverage
• 🚀 Universal - Works in Node.js, browsers, and serverless environments
• 🐳 Docker ready - Pre-built Docker images available
• 🍺 Homebrew support - Easy globally installed CLI via Homebrew tap
• 🤖 MCP Server - Use CSFD data directly within LLMs like Claude Desktop
• 🔄 Modern API - Promise-based with async/await support
• 📦 Few dependencies - Lightweight and efficient

Supported Platforms

• Node.js (ESM & CommonJS)
• Browsers (with CORS considerations)
• Docker containers
• macOS/Linux CLI (via Homebrew)
• MCP Server (Claude Desktop, etc.)
• Serverless (Firebase Functions, AWS Lambda, CloudFlare Workers, etc.)
• Chrome Extensions
• React Native (Yes, with Expo too!)

📦 Installation

npm install node-csfd-api

yarn add node-csfd-api

pnpm add node-csfd-api

🚀 Quick Start

import { csfd } from 'node-csfd-api';

// Fetch movie details const movie = await csfd.movie(535121); console.log(movie.title); // "Na špatné straně"

// Search for content const results = await csfd.search('Tarantino'); console.log(results.movies, results.tvSeries, results.users);

// Get creator info const creator = await csfd.creator(2120); console.log(creator.name); // "Quentin Tarantino"

// Get user ratings const ratings = await csfd.userRatings('912'); console.log(ratings);

// Get user reviews const reviews = await csfd.userReviews('195357-verbal'); console.log(reviews);

📖 Table of Contents

• Movie Details
• Search
• Creators
• Charts
• User
• User Ratings
• User Reviews
• Language & Request Options
• Error Handling
• Browser Verification Cookie
• CLI Tools
• MCP Server
• Docker Support
• REST API
• Development

📚 API Reference

Movie

Retrieve comprehensive information about a movie or TV series by its ČSFD ID.

Method: csfd.movie(id: number | string, options?: CSFDOptions): Promise

The ID can be a number, a slug ('535121-na-spatne-strane') or a full ČSFD URL. The same works for creators and users.

import { csfd } from 'node-csfd-api';

// Using async/await const movie = await csfd.movie(535121);

// Alternatively, using promises csfd.movie(535121).then((movie) => console.log(movie));

🔎 Click here to see full result example

{

id: 535121, title: 'Na špatné straně', year: '2018', descriptions: [ 'Otupělý policejní veterán Ridgeman (Mel Gibson)...', 'Brett je policajt tesne ...' ], genres: [ 'Krimi', 'Drama', 'Thriller' ], type: 'film', url: 'https://www.csfd.cz/film/535121', origins: [ 'USA', 'Kanada' ], colorRating: 'good', rating: 73, ratingCount: 6654, photo: '//image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w1326/files/images/film/photos/162/980/162980090_bbffbb.jpg', trivia: ['Když Henry (Tory Kittles) se svým mladším bratrem...', 'Ve filmu se střídají...'], titlesOther: [ { country: 'USA', title: 'Dragged Across Concrete' }, { country: 'Kanada', title: 'Dragged Across Concrete' }, { country: 'Slovensko', title: 'Na zlej strane' }, { country: 'Austrálie', title: 'Dragged Across Concrete' }, { country: 'Velká Británie', title: 'Dragged Across Concrete' } ], poster: 'https://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w1080/files/images/film/posters/163/579/163579352_bf8737.jpg', creators: { directors: [ { id: 87470, name: 'S. Craig Zahler', url: 'https://www.csfd.cz/tvurce/87470-s-craig-zahler/' } ], actors: [ { id: 1, name: 'Mel Gibson', url: 'https://www.csfd.cz/tvurce/1-mel-gibson/' } ], basedOn: [], writers: [ { id: 87470, name: 'S. Craig Zahler', url: 'https://www.csfd.cz/tvurce/87470-s-craig-zahler/' } ], music: [ { id: 203209, name: 'Jeff Herriott', url: 'https://www.csfd.cz/tvurce/203209-jeff-herriott/' } ], producers: [ { id: 320006, name: 'Sefton Fincham', url: 'https://www.csfd.cz/tvurce/320006-sefton-fincham/' } ] }, vod: [ { title: 'Voyo', url: 'https://voyo.nova.cz/filmy/4604-na-spatne-strane' }, { title: 'DVD', url: 'https://filmy.heureka.cz/na-spatne-strane-dvd/#utm_source=csfd.cz&utm_medium=cooperation&utm_campaign=csfd_movies_feed' } ], tags: ['město', 'sledování'], premieres: [ { country: 'Česko', format: 'Na Blu-ray', date: '07.08.2019', company: 'Magic Box' }, { country: 'USA', format: 'V kinech', date: '22.03.2019', company: 'Lionsgate US' } ] }

Search

Search for movies, TV series, creators and users across the ČSFD database.

Method: csfd.search(query: string, options?: CSFDOptions): Promise

import { csfd } from 'node-csfd-api';

const results = await csfd.search('bart');

// Access different result types console.log(results.movies); // Array of movies console.log(results.tvSeries); // Array of TV series console.log(results.users); // Array of users

🔎 Click here to see full result example

[

{ id: 19653, title: 'Black Bart', year: '1975', url: 'https://www.csfd.cz/film/19653-black-bart/', type: 'tv-film', colorRating: 'bad', poster: 'data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7', origins: ['USA'], creators: { directors: [{ id: 87470, name: 'S. Craig Zahler', url: 'https://www.csfd.cz/tvurce/87470-s-craig-zahler/' }], actors: [{ id: 1, name: 'Mel Gibson', url: 'https://www.csfd.cz/tvurce/1-mel-gibson/' }] } } ], tvSeries: [ { id: 71924, title: 'Království', year: 1994, url: 'https://www.csfd.cz/film/71924-kralovstvi/', type: 'series', colorRating: 'good', poster: 'https://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/166/708/166708064_2da697.jpg', origins: ['Dánsko'], creators: [] } ], users: [ { id: 912, user: 'BART!', userRealName: 'Lukáš Barták', avatar: 'https://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w45h60/files/images/user/avatars/000/281/281554_1c0fef.jpg', url: 'https://www.csfd.cz/uzivatel/912-bart/' } ]

Creators

Get detailed information about a creator including their biography and filmography.

Method: csfd.creator(id: number | string, options?: CSFDOptions): Promise

import { csfd } from 'node-csfd-api';

const creator = await csfd.creator(2120); // Quentin Tarantino

console.log(creator.name); // Name console.log(creator.bio); // Biography console.log(creator.films); // Filmography console.log(creator.birthday); // Birth date // ... many more properties, see example

🔎 Click here to see full result example

{

id: 2120, name: 'Quentin Tarantino', birthday: '27.03.1963', birthplace: 'Knoxville, Tennessee, USA', photo: 'https://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w100h132crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/515/164515525_b98f8a.jpg', age: 58, bio: 'Quentin Tarantino se narodil 27. března roku 1963 v americkém Knoxville teprve šestnáctileté Connie Tarantinové. Své jméno Quentin dostal podle matčiny oblíbené televizní postavy Quinta ze seriálu "Gunsmoke". Quentinův otec byl jistý Tony Tarantino, který rodinu opustil když byl Quentin ještě malinký. Jeho dětství a dospívání ovlivnily nejen filmy, ale pop kultura obecně. Televizní seriály, komiksy, populární hudba, to vše jako mladý hltal ve velkém a stále neměl…', films: [ { id: 527699, title: 'Tenkrát v Hollywoodu', year: 2019, colorRating: 'good' }, { id: 362228, title: 'Osm hrozných', year: 2015, colorRating: 'good' }, { id: 294824, title: 'Nespoutaný Django', year: 2012, colorRating: 'good' }, { id: 117077, title: 'Hanebný pancharti', year: 2009, colorRating: 'good' }, { id: 229384, title: 'Grindhouse: Auto zabiják', year: 2007, colorRating: 'average' }, { id: 178904, title: 'Sin City - město hříchu', year: 2005, colorRating: 'good' }, { id: 136304, title: 'Kill Bill 2', year: 2004, colorRating: 'good' }, { id: 43483, title: 'Kill Bill', year: 2003, colorRating: 'good' }, { id: 8850, title: 'Jackie Brown', year: 1997, colorRating: 'good' }, { id: 7743, title: 'Čtyři pokoje', year: 1995, colorRating: 'good' }, { id: 8852, title: 'Pulp Fiction: Historky z podsvětí', year: 1994, colorRating: 'good' } ] }

Charts

ČSFD's charts of movies and series: the best and worst rated, the most favourited and the most controversial.

Method: csfd.chart(type: CSFDChartType, category: CSFDChartCategory, config?: CSFDChartConfig, options?: CSFDOptions): Promise

import { csfd } from 'node-csfd-api';

const best = await csfd.chart('movies', 'best'); // places 1–99 const worstSeries = await csfd.chart('series', 'worst', { limit: 10 }); const top300 = await csfd.chart('movies', 'best', { limit: 300 });

console.log(best[0].title); // Vykoupení z věznice Shawshank console.log(best[0].rating); // 95.4

• type: 'movies' or 'series'
• category: 'best', 'worst', 'favorite' or 'controversial'
• config.limit: how many places from the top. By default it's ČSFD's first page, places 1–99, in one request. Each further hundred takes another request, and the whole chart of 1000 places takes ten.

The favourite chart ranks by fans: its items have fans and no rating or ratingCount.

🔎 Click here to see full result example

[

{ position: 1, id: 2294, title: 'Vykoupení z věznice Shawshank', year: 1994, url: 'https://www.csfd.cz/film/2294/prehled/', type: 'film', colorRating: 'good', poster: 'https://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w1080/files/images/film/posters/162/505/162505167_735db9.jpg', origins: ['USA'], genres: ['Drama', 'Krimi'], creators: { directors: [ { id: 2869, name: 'Frank Darab