IMDbPY is a Python package for retrieving and managing the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people and companies.
Revamp notice
Starting on November 2017, many things were improved and simplified:
- moved the package to Python 3 (compatible with Python 2.7)
- removed dependencies: SQLObject, C compiler, BeautifulSoup
- removed the “mobile” and “httpThin” parsers
- introduced a test suite (please help with it!)
Main features
- written in Python 3 (compatible with Python 2.7)
- platform-independent
- can retrieve data from both the IMDb’s web server, or a local copy of the database
- simple and complete API
- released under the terms of the GPL 2 license
IMDbPY powers many other software and has been used in various research papers. Curious about that?
Installation
Whenever possible, please use the latest version from the repository:
pip install git+https://github.com/alberanid/imdbpy
But if you want, you can also install the latest release from PyPI:
pip install imdbpy
Example
Here’s an example that demonstrates how to use IMDbPY:
from imdb import IMDb
# create an instance of the IMDb class
ia = IMDb()
# get a movie
movie = ia.get_movie('0133093')
# print the names of the directors of the movie
print('Directors:')
for director in movie['directors']:
print(director['name'])
# print the genres of the movie
print('Genres:')
for genre in movie['genres']:
print(genre)
# search for a person name
people = ia.search_person('Mel Gibson')
for person in people:
print(person.personID, person['name'])
Getting help
Please refer to the support page on the project homepage and to the the online documentation on Read The Docs.
The sources are available on GitHub.
License
Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Davide Alberani <da –> mimante.net> et al.
IMDbPY is released under the GPL license, version 2 or later. Read the included LICENSE.txt file for details.
NOTE: For a list of persons who share the copyright over specific portions of code, see the CONTRIBUTORS.txt file.
NOTE: See also the recommendations in the DISCLAIMER.txt file.
