Questions tagged [imdb]

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information related to films, television programs, and video games. This includes actors, production crew personnel, and fictional characters featured in these three visual entertainment media.

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information related to films, television programs, and video games. This includes actors, production crew personnel, and fictional characters featured in these three visual entertainment media.

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web scraping in imdb using R

I want to find the link to the top 250 movies in imdb. I decided to find a common pattern by viewing the HTML source code. I found "chttp" but I am not sure if it will get me anywhere. How can I find a pattern to construct the links upon…
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importing imdb data by imdbpy still is not finished after 20 hours

I am trying to import imdb's data using IMDbPY which I downloaded from this link: https://bitbucket.org/alberanid/imdbpy The problem is that I ran imdbpy2sql yesterday and still after 21 hours it is not finished! and also it has a lot of warnings…
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How do I get the IMDB url from IMDBPy?

I've been using IMDBpy to collect information about movies with python. While for the most part it works great, I can't figure out how to get it to tell me the IMDB url of the movie returned from a search. Is it even possible with IMDBpy? Thanks a…
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Error while processing input value, sending via JSON

I've got following code, which should get the value of a input field, send the value to imdbapi.org and process the JSON sent back. I included a element showing the value of the input field, but with some strings it cuts off the string. See this…
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Why when I make http request to "imdb.com" I get a 403 Error?

I want to do like a movie manager. And I wanted to provide my Java Application only the url of the movie on imdb and it automaticly get the producers name and other things. It's working with other sites, bue with this one, instead of the HTML, I get…
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To add IMDB rating to my android application

I have created an app whic has a few shows and movies. I wish to add IMDB ratings of any particular movie or show since IMDB ratings are quite accepted by people. How to i do it?
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how can get info from IMDB in C#

i need a IMDB API for get all info from IMDB now : Does IMDB provide an API for this, or any third party APIs available? except http://www.imdbapi.com/ ==>>because no summaries/description ( i need summaries ) pleas help thanks a lot
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How does the IMDB search work so fast?

There is a search box in header navigation bar (http://www.imdb.com/) and when I type 2 (or 3) letters fast, for less than half a second, I can see 6 results coming out!!?? Does anyone have any idea how can one search a large amount of data and get…
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Collecting all movie reviews from IMDb from certain dramas

I am trying to collect data from IMDb using python but I can't manage to get all the reviews. I have the following code that works but dosent give all the reviews available : from imdb import IMDb ia = IMDb() ia.get_movie_reviews('13433812')…
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SCRAPY scraping imdb website using Xpath expression

getting everything as none in output cannot figure out the issue in the code Scraping details of top 1000 rated movies on imdb Link :- https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?count=100&groups=top_1000&sort=user_rating CODE # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import…
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How to integrated/combined/merged MovieLens and IMDb datasets?

Movie.csv of the MovieLens dataset contains only the MovieId, title, and genre features. But I'd like to add more features (and merge with movie.csv) like director and cast information. How can I do this? May I ask for suggestions to be informed…
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Is there a way to retrieve an episode count & dates from an actor that played multiple roles?

To be clearer : I would like to retrieve in how many episodes of a serie an actor appeared (with the dates) as it's displayed in IMDB. I'm using the Doctor Who page as an example In this case, I would like to know that Matt Smith appeared in 46…
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Extracting Character Roles from Tom Holland's IMDB Page using BeautifulSoup

I extracted the following data from Tom Holland's IMDB page and defined it as "movie_contents": [
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rvest::html_nodes returns a partial list (only a few items)

Using the rvest package, I am trying to scrape names of actors/actresses from IMDB page for the film JFK (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102138/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ql_1). SelectorGadget says that the place I want to look to find the names is…
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Cannot make sense of keras.datasets.imdb

I have two problems: First off, the documentation for tf.keras.datasets.imdb.get_word_index says Retrieves the dictionary mapping word indices back to words. While in fact it's the…
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