GET episodes/{id}

tvmaze.com:tvmaze-api

Summary: Get episode
Operation ID: getEpisode
Auth: none

Retrieve detailed information about a specific episode by its TVmaze episode ID. Returns episode name, season/episode numbers, air date, runtime, summary, and images. Use this when you have an episode ID and need complete episode metadata.

Original spec description

Retrieve all primary information for a given episode.

Usage Tips

- Episode IDs are different from show IDs - Returns 404 for invalid episode IDs - 'show' field contains minimal parent show info - Summary field contains HTML

Parameters (2)

embed (string, query, optional)

Embed related resources (show)

id (integer, path, required)

TVmaze episode ID

Examples (3)

TitleTypeURLAction
Get episode by ID (early episode) curl https://api.tvmaze.com/episodes/1
Get episode by ID (mid-range episode) curl https://api.tvmaze.com/episodes/1000
Get episode by ID (recent episode) curl https://api.tvmaze.com/episodes/50000

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-03-23 10:39:09.972821 200 103ms
2026-03-23 10:33:15.946534 200 112ms
2026-03-23 09:33:19.160296 200 89ms

Response Changes

WhenOldNew
2026-03-23 10:33:15.946534 5bf4c65a3655 816916af0d57
2026-03-23 10:39:09.972821 816916af0d57 2823da12579e