Coverage and cinema search
Search supported UK cinemas and understand how provider coverage is reported.
Use GET /v1/cinemas?search=Liverpool to match cinema names, localities, and
postcodes. chainId can narrow any search.
For proximity search, provide either:
postcodeandradiusKm; orlatitude,longitude, andradiusKm.
search, postcode, and coordinates are mutually exclusive. Radius searches
are capped at 100 km.
CinemaData discovers venues independently from schedules. A cinema can therefore remain discoverable when it has no current screenings. An empty schedule is accepted only when the provider exposes an explicit empty state; missing or broken markup is treated as a failed collection and the previous valid snapshot is retained.
Provider coverage is activated only after source-use review, recorded conformance tests, and anomaly checks pass. Coverage documentation never treats a blocked provider or an unreviewed source as live data.