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

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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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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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How do I get the gender of a person (IMDbpy)

How do I get gender of a person in a movie using IMDbPy? (I mainly want to find out if they're an actor or actress) I know it's in their database or something but I don't know how to get it, right now I'm using a separate gender api but it's…
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how to retrieve plot keywords for specific movie id using imdbpy from imdb

i want to retrieve plot keywords for specific movie id using IMDBPY from IMDb .any idea? i just know that from imdb import IMDb ia = IMDb() # get a movie and print its name the_matrix = ia.get_movie('0133094') print(the_matrix)
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IMDBPy installing mysqlclient fails - Python 2.7 Windows

I'm a former developer, but haven't done much with Python to date. I'm trying to get the full IMDB database into a MySQL server before the text files go poof. I now know IMDBPy requires Python 2.7 (thanks David!) so I am on a clean machine with Py…
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How can I get soundtrack information with iMDBpy?

I'm use the imdbpy package to retrieve movies info, but I can't seem to get the soundtrack information. I've checked and the movie that I'm using as a test (Toystory) has a soundtrack on the iMDb website, and soundtrack is on ia.get_movie_infoset(),…
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getting error with default examples - imdbpy

Installed imdbpy and tried running the default examples mentioned on -http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/support.html, but I am unable to run them successfully. Program: # Create the object that will be used to access the IMDb's database. ia =…
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Error returned when running imdbpy2sql.py with MySQL database

I am working on getting IMDbPY installed and working and I have come to a point where I am working on pulling in all of the data from the flat (text) files in to a (MySQL) database. When I run the appropriate command: imdbpy2sql.py -d /tmp/IMDB/ -u…
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IMDbPY throws an error when trying to fetch episodes of a TV series

The code to fetch the episodes of a tv series through Cinemagoer (previously IMDbPY) is not working, even if I directly pick up an example code from the documentation. This doesn't seem to work for any TV series. I have tried reinstalling various…
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Creating an autocomplete search form (probably w/ jQuery) using a comprehensive (huge) movie title list (Django project) from IMDBPy

I am in the early stages of retrieving IMDB data via the Python package IMDBPy (their site) (proj github). I have been referring to this nice IMDBPy implementation for help with aspects of what I'm doing here. Several of the queries that I'm using…
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How to get the top 10 movies of a given genre with IMdbpy?

I am using IMdbpy and I want to extract the top ten movies from a given genre. I have written following code: code = "0133093" # getting information series = ia.get_movie(code) # getting gerne of the series genre = series.data['genres'] Based…
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How do I stop generating nested tuples when I make a dictionary from a dictionary of film data?

can anyone help with a creating a dictionary from a dictionary? I have built an API call to IMDB (using imdbpy) so I can retrieve a dictionary of movie info - including the name of the main actor of the film. This API call works fine. But when I…
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app takes too long to show search results

I'm building a movie search app in flask using imdbpy package. It is a simple app where you type movie name and it shows you movies/tv shows with that name. Everything is working fine except it takes too long to show search results (about 45…
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How can I get user (self) rated movies/series data from IMDB (mostly python)?

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…
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Imdbpy get parents guide

I'm trying to get the parents guide from movies and TV-shows using Imdbpy, but I can't figure out how. I can see some refrences to "Parents guide" in the source code, so I hope it can be done with Imdbpy. Can someone help me or point me in the…
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