/imdbpy

IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people, characters and companies. This is a git clone of the official Mercurial repository.

Primary LanguagePython

IMDbPY

IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people, characters and companies.

Main features

  • written in pure Python (and few, optional, C lines)
  • platform-independent
  • can retrieve data from both the IMDb's web server and a local copy of the whole database
  • a simple and complete API
  • released under the terms of the GPL 2 license
  • IMDbPY powers many other softwares and has been used in various research papers. Curious about that?

Code example

from imdb import IMDb
ia = IMDb()

# print the director(s) of a movie
the_matrix = ia.get_movie('0133093')
print the_matrix['director']

# search for a person
for person in ia.search_person('Mel Gibson'):
    print person.personID, person['name']

License

IMDbPY is released under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 (or later) license.