How can I get user (self) rated movies/series data from IMDB (mostly python)?

Question

I want to retrieve reviews that I have given to movies/series on IMDB app/website under my account.

Does IMDB expose any such API?

I tried accessing the URL mentioned in the screenshot. But looks like I need the token?

How to get IMDB token?

I went through https://github.com/alberanid/imdbpy but looks like there are no such API's to get user reviewed data.

Can anyone please guide me in the right direction?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 24 '20 at 16:31

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I guess that's what you are looking for: http://www.omdbapi.com IMDB api.

answered May 24 '20 at 16:31

Chems Eddine

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Thanks for providing the info. But I found another way out. I've pasted the answer. Have a great day. – Ambarish May 30 '20 at 20:35
I don't see "User API" on that site, so this is not valid answer. – MiroJanosik Jun 08 '23 at 09:01

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 27 '20 at 21:27

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I tried a different way altogether and it worked,

import requests
import browsercookie
import bs4
url = 'https://www.imdb.com/user/ur<user_id>/ratings?ref_=nv_usr_rt_4'
cj = browsercookie.chrome()
res = requests.get(url, cookies=cj)
res.raise_for_status()
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text, "html.parser")

answered May 27 '20 at 21:27

Ambarish

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Just login to your account from google chrome browser to IMDB, before running this code. And update the userid field with your user ID (its usually a 8 digit integer). – Ambarish May 30 '20 at 20:32
Yeah, but imdb does not expose API's to get user given ratings, if so please do let me know... – Ambarish May 30 '20 at 22:57

How can I get user (self) rated movies/series data from IMDB (mostly python)?

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