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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Is there a way to extract IMDb reviews using IMDbPY?
I do not need the data-set, that's available in Kaggle . I want to extract a movie review from IMDb using IMDbPY or any other scraping method .
https://imdbpy.github.io/
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USA 'aka Title' returned as default?
Trying to get the Title for "Blood Oath" from 1990 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100414/ .In this example am using Jupyter, but it works the same in my .py program:
movie = ia.get_movie('0100414')
movie
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How can I pass command-line arguments in IronPython?
I am working with IronPython and have got it working somehow. Though, there seems to be no resource on passing command-line arguments to Iron Python. How can I pass command-line arguments to a python program from my C# code?
setup = new…
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How to handle exception in Python?
I'm working on getting details for list of movies from IMDB using Imdbpy library. However I'm unable to handle the generated exception.
Where am I going wrong?
Here's the code:
from imdb import IMDb
ia = IMDb()
from_id = 650
to_id = from_id +5
for …
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How do I get length of the movie using Imdbpy library?
I know I may be asking pretty silly question. But I haven't found an answer for the question.
How can I get the length of a movie using Imdbpy library?
I do see that there is duration for any movie in imdb.com but I didn't find any key or variable…
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How to retrieve IMDB user reviews using IMDBPY?
is it possible retrieve Imdb user reviews using imdbpy?if there is another way please help me out.
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IMDB to SQLite: How to create table and insert imdb data into sqlite database?
I'm working on a project where I want the select IMDB files (The files format is in *.list) that I downloaded from here into a sqlite database. Unfortunately, I'm not able to solve this issue. I'm able to create a database but can't tabulate the…
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get filmorgaphy for a chosen company with IMDBPY
From the documentation i see that companies has only 'main' and don't have 'filmography' unlike persons, but are there a way to fetch movies for the chosen company? Maybe it's possible to see the list of 'Films in Production' and 'Past Film &…
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Fetching release date of an episode using IMDBpy API in python
I want to fetch the release date of a episode
e.g GOT S03E04 - 21 Apr. 2013
I have been able to get to the ID of the episode using this API but can't seem to find my way around to release date. I know that this API fetches release year so it must…
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IMDBpy - Get Genres from the Top 20 movies
I'm trying to extracting a dataset with the top 20 movies and each genres and actors. For that I'm trying with the following code:
top250 = ia.get_top250_movies()
limit = 20;
index = 0;
output = []
for item in top250:
for genre in…
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Ratings within Demographic using IMDBPy
Is any way to get the movie ratings distribution by demographics using imdbpy? For example, I can get this data
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780504/ratings
with the following code
import imdb
i = imdb.IMDb(accessSystem='http')
movie =…
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how to Importing modules python
I'm learning about how to import libraries from directories and I've stumbled upon an error I can't seem to figure out. I'm using the IMDBpy python library in a folder called lib. Below, I am importing the module which no longer returns any errors,…
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imdbpy2sql full run fails with "except getopt.error" for IMDBPy
I'm a former developer but haven't really used Python before. I'm trying to run imdbpy2sql to get the full IMDB into a MySQL database before the ftp files go away.
Python is installed. SQLObject is installed. From the command line, I start from the…
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Getting different movie info from script than from python shell
I have following script to output the cast of a movie to a text document:
import imdb
ia = imdb.IMDb()
movie = ia.get_movie(0111161)
cast = movie['cast']
text_file = open("Cast.txt",…
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503 error when downloading data from imdb api
I am trying to download a plot for almost 25 000 movies with the usage of imdbpy module for python. To speed up, I'm using Pool function from Multiprocessing module. However after almost 100 requests the 503 error occurs with a following message:…
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