ttufts/imdb-pie

Python IMDB client using the IMDB json web service made available for their iOS app.

ImdbPie

Python IMDB client using the IMDB json web service made available for their iOS app.

Installation

To install imdbpie, simply:

pip install imdbpie

How To Use

Create an instance of ImdbPie

from imdbpie import Imdb
imdb = Imdb()
imdb = Imdb(anonymize=True) # to proxy requests

# Creating an instance with caching enabled
# Note that the cached responses expire every 2 hours or so.
# The API response itself dictates the expiry time)
imdb = Imdb(cache=True)

Search for a title by its title

>>> imdb.search_for_title("The Dark Knight")
[{'title': "The Dark Knight", 'year':  "2008", 'imdb_id': "tt0468569"},{'title' : "Batman Unmasked", ...}]

Search for person by their name

>>> imdb.search_for_person("Christian Bale")
[{'imdb_id': 'nm0000288', 'name': 'Christian Bale'},{'imdb_id': 'nm7635250', ...}]

Find a title by its imdb_id

>>> title = imdb.get_title_by_id("tt0468569")
>>> title.title
"The Dark Knight"
>>> title.rating
8.1
>>> title.certification
"PG-13"

Find a person by their imdb_id

>>> person = imdb.get_person_by_id("nm0000151")
>>> person.name
"Morgan Freeman"
>>> person.imdb_id
"nm0000151"

Find a title trailer poster

>>> title = imdb.get_title_by_id("tt1210166")
>>> title.trailer_image_urls
["http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BODM1NDMxMTI3M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDAzODY1Ng@@._V1_.jpg",...]

Find the top 250 movies ever

>>> imdb.top_250()
[{'title': 'The Shawshank Redemption', 'year': '1994', 'type': 'feature', 'rating': 9.3,...}, ...]

Get the current popular shows

>>> imdb.popular_shows()
[{'title': 'Glee', 'year': "2009", 'imdb_id': 'tt1327801'}, {'title': "Dexter", ...}]

Check if a title exists

>>> imdb.title_exists('tt1327801')
True

Get images for a person

Returns a list of image objects with the following attributes (caption, url, width, height)

>>> imdb.get_person_images("nm0000033")
[<Image: u'Alfred Hitchcock'>, <Image: u'"Psycho" Dir. Alfred Hitchcock 1960 Paramount'>,...]

Get images for a title

Returns a list of image objects with the following attributes (caption, url, width, height)

>>> imdb.get_title_images("tt0468569")
[<Image: u'Morgan Freeman and Frank Darabont in The Shawshank Redemption'>,...]

Get reviews for a title

Returns a list of Review objects with the following attributes (username, text, date, rating, summary, status, user_location, user_score, user_score_count)

>>> imdb.get_title_reviews("tt0468569", max_results=15)
[<Review: u'Why do I want to wri'>, <Review: u'Can Hollywood, usua'>,...]

Example: Get a title's credit information and check categorisation

title = imdb.get_title_by_id("tt1210166")
for person in title.credits:
    # check if they are a writer
    if person.token == 'writers':
        print(person.name + ' is a writer')
    else:
        print(person.name + ' is not a writer')

Requirements

1. Python 2 or 3
2. See requirements.txt

Running the tests

pip install -r test_requirements.txt
py.test src/tests