Python IMDB client using the IMDB json web service made available for their iOS app.
To install imdbpie, simply:
pip install imdbpiefrom 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})
# Specify optional cache directory, the default is '/tmp/imdbpiecache'
imdb = Imdb({'cache': True, 'cache_dir': '/tmp/imdbpie-cache-here'})imdb.find_by_title("The Dark Knight") => [{'title' : "The Dark Knight", 'year' : "2008", 'imdb_id' : "tt0468569"}, {'title' : "Batman Unmasked", ...}]movie = imdb.find_movie_by_id("tt0468569")
movie.title => "The Dark Knight"
movie.rating => 8.1
movie.certification => "PG-13"movie = imdb.find_movie_by_id("tt1210166")
movie.trailer_url => "http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BODM1NDMxMTI3M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDAzODY1Ng@@._V1_.jpg"imdb.top_250() => [{'title': 'The Shawshank Redemption', 'year': '1994', 'type': 'feature', 'rating': 9.3,...}, ...]imdb.popular_shows() => [{'title' : "Glee", 'year' : "2009", 'imdb_id' => "tt1327801"}, {'title' : "Dexter", ...}]Returns either True or False
imdb.movie_exists('tt1327801') => Trueimdb.validate_id('tt1000') => tt0001000Returns a list of image objects with the following attributes (caption, url, width, height)
images = imdb.person_images("tt0468569")Returns a list of image objects with the following attributes (caption, url, width, height)
images = imdb.title_images("tt0468569")Returns a list of Review objects with the following attributes (username, text, date, rating, summary, status, user_location, user_score, user_score_count)
reviews = imdb.title_reviews("tt0468569")movie = imdb.find_movie_by_id("tt1210166")
for person in movie.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'1. Python 2 or 3
2. Python requests - python-requests.org
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