A lightweight Python library for The Movie Database (TMDb) API. The TMDb API is a resource for developers to integrate movie, TV show and cast data along with posters or movie fan art. themoviedb.org is a free and community edited database.
Register an account: https://www.themoviedb.org/account/signup
Check out the API documentation: https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/getting-started/introduction
tmdbv3api is available on the Python Package Index (PyPI) at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tmdbv3api
You can install tmdbv3api using pip.
$ pip install tmdbv3api
The first step is to initialize a TMDb object and set your API Key.
from tmdbv3api import TMDb
tmdb = TMDb()
tmdb.api_key = 'YOUR_API_KEY'Alternatively, you can export your API key as an environment variable.
$ export TMDB_API_KEY='YOUR_API_KEY'Other configuration settings include defining your language and enabling debug mode, for example:
tmdb.language = 'en'
tmdb.debug = TrueThen to communicate with TMDb, create an instance of one of the objects and call that instances methods. For example, to retrieve movie recommendations for a given movie id:
from tmdbv3api import Movie
movie = Movie()
recommendations = movie.recommendations(movie_id=111)
for recommendation in recommendations:
print(recommendation.title)
print(recommendation.overview)Get the list of popular movies on The Movie Database. This list refreshes every day.
movie = Movie()
popular = movie.popular()
for p in popular:
print(p.id)
print(p.title)
print(p.overview)
print(p.poster_path)Get the primary information about a movie.
m = movie.details(343611)
print(m.title)
print(m.overview)
print(m.popularity)Search for movies by title.
search = movie.search('Mad Max')
for res in search:
print(res.id)
print(res.title)
print(res.overview)
print(res.poster_path)
print(res.vote_average)Get the similar movies for a specific movie id.
similar = movie.similar(777)
for result in similar:
print(result.title)
print(result.overview)Search for TV shows by title.
tv = TV()
show = tv.search('Breaking Bad')
for result in show:
print(result.name)
print(result.overview)Get the similar TV shows for a specific tv id.
similar = tv.similar(1396)
for show in similar:
print(show.name)
print(show.overview)Get the details of TV season for a specific tv id.
season = Season()
show_season = season.details(1396, 1)
print(show_season.air_date)
print(len(show_season.episodes))Get the general person information for a specific id.
person = Person()
p = person.details(12)
print(p.name)
print(p.biography)Discover movies by different types of data like average rating, number of votes, genres and certifications.
# What movies are in theatres?
discover = Discover()
movie = discover.discover_movies({
'primary_release_date.gte': '2017-01-20',
'primary_release_date.lte': '2017-01-25'
})
# What are the most popular movies?
movie = discover.discover_movies({
'sort_by': 'popularity.desc'
})
# What are the most popular kids movies?
movie = discover.discover_movies({
'certification_country': 'US',
'certification.lte': 'G',
'sort_by': 'popularity.desc'
})Discover TV shows by different types of data like average rating, number of votes, genres, the network they aired on and air dates.
# What are the most popular TV shows?
show = discover.discover_tv_shows({
'sort_by': 'popularity.desc'
})
# What are the best dramas?
show = discover.discover_tv_shows({
'with_genres': 18,
'sort_by': 'vote_average.desc',
'vote_count.gte': 10
})Login to your account and add some movie recommendations to your TMDb watchlist.
from tmdbv3api import Account
from tmdbv3api import Authentication
from tmdbv3api import TMDb, Movie
USERNAME = "YOUR_USERNAME"
PASSWORD = "YOUR_PASSWORD"
tmdb = TMDb()
tmdb.api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"
auth = Authentication(username=USERNAME, password=PASSWORD)
account = Account()
details = account.details()
print("You are logged in as %s. Your account ID is %s." % (details.username, details.id))
print("This session expires at: %s" % auth.expires_at)
movie = Movie()
s = movie.search("Gangs of New York")
first_result = s[0]
recommendations = movie.recommendations(first_result.id)
for recommendation in recommendations:
print("Adding %s (%s) to watchlist." % (recommendation.title, recommendation.release_date))
account.add_to_watchlist(details.id, recommendation.id, "movie")You can run the tests via the command line. You must export your TMDb API key as an environment variable. From the command line run:
$ export TMDB_API_KEY='YOUR_API_KEY'Then run:
$ python -m unittest discover tests/