Get movies

Use this action to get all movies in your Radarr library, including their details and status.

This action returns its result in a response variable, which you can use in later steps of the same automation or script, for example to build a notification listing your monitored movies.

Using this action from the user interface

If you prefer building automations and scripts visually, Home Assistant walks you through this action step by step. You pick what to target, tweak a few options, and save. No YAML knowledge required.

To get the movies from an automation or a script:

1. Go to Settings > Automations & scenes.
2. Open an existing automation or script, or select Create automation > Create new automation.
3. If you’re setting up a new automation, add a trigger in the When section. Scripts don’t need a trigger. They run when something else calls them.
4. In the Then do section, select Add action.
5. From the search box, search for and select Radarr: Get movies.
6. Select the Radarr entry to get the movies from. This is the Radarr connection you set up in Home Assistant. If you added more than one Radarr server, pick the one whose library you want.
7. In the Response variable field, enter a name to store the movie data in, such as movies. You’ll use this name to read the movies in later steps.
8. Select Save.

This action does not support targets. In the UI, you are not prompted to choose an area, device, entity, or label.

Options in the UI

Using this action in YAML

If you work directly in YAML, or you want to know exactly what Home Assistant does under the hood, this section has the technical reference. It lists the field names you use in YAML, their types, and which ones are required.

In YAML, refer to this action as radarr.get_movies. Store the result in a response variable so you can use it in later steps:

action: radarr.get_movies
data:
  entry_id: 01234567890abcdef1234567890abcde
response_variable: movies

This fetches all movies in your Radarr library.

Options in YAML

Response data

The response contains a movies mapping, keyed by movie title. Each movie includes the following fields:

• id: The internal Radarr movie ID.
• title: The movie title.
• year: The release year.
• tmdb_id: The Movie Database (TMDB) ID.
• imdb_id: The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) ID.
• status: The movie status, such as released or announced.
• monitored: Whether the movie is monitored.
• has_file: Whether the movie file exists.
• size_on_disk: The size of the movie files in bytes.
• path: The path where the movie is stored.
• movie_file_count: The number of movie files.
• images: A mapping of image URLs by type, such as poster or fanart.

A shortened example of the response looks like this:

movies:
  The Amateur:
    id: 3
    title: The Amateur
    year: 2025
    tmdb_id: 1087891
    imdb_id: tt0899043
    status: released
    monitored: true
    has_file: true
    size_on_disk: 0
    path: /data/media/movies/The Amateur (2025)
    movie_file_count: 0
    images:
      poster: https://www.example.com/poster.jpg
      fanart: https://www.example.com/fanart.jpg

Try it yourself

Ready to test this? Open Developer tools > Actions, search for this action, fill in the fields, and select Perform action. You see what happens on your actual entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service. [Learn more] without writing a line of YAML.

Still stuck?

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Related actions

These actions work well alongside this one:

• Get queue: Gets all movies currently in the Radarr download queue with their progress and details.