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 to get movie rating from a list?
I'm using IMDbPY and I'd like to output the rating from a specific country. But right now I'm getting all the ratings for all countries.
Here's my Code:
from imdb import IMDb
ia = IMDb()
theMatrix =…

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imdbpy Getting activity of actors/actresses from a list
I was wondering if someone could help me get a list of all the actor's actress's filmography from a single show?
full_cast = ia.get_movie('0203259', 'full credits')
full_cast = full_cast['cast']
full_cast
I can get the filmography of one person…

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How do I show results from an api in flask
I'm creating a movie database and I'm pulling my data from import imdbpy.
I'm currently stuck on my post route that allows the user to enter in a title, I would like for my database to return title, actor and plot.
The system should show the first…

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Attribute Error in Django,when using IMDbpy
I am trying to use the IMDbpy library in my django projects,but it raises an Attribute Error.
I tried all the solutions available on the internet,but none seem to work,could you please help me with this?
The Error:
moviesDB =…

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My program uses IMDBpy is there a way i can use this program without manually installing IMDBpy before using it?
I've written a program on python that I want to give out to my friends but at the moment to use the program you have to install IMDBpy in the terminal using "pip install imdbpy".
Is there anyway I can integrate this command into my program so they…

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Code Processing Too Many Values in PySimpleGUI
I have been making an app which lets the users check-boxes. Depending on what boxes they check it will display different information. I decided to use PySimpleGUI for this project. I made 6 check-boxes and one text input which I want the user to be…

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How can I use web scraping or IMDbPY to be able to get the link of an actor's Instagram account?
I'm writing a program that gives information on actors and actresses, but I'm looking for a way to be able to get the Instagram link of the specified actor?
My code just asks for the actor or actresses name, (then it first searches for the id) then…

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How to get name from movie.get('casts') function
Hi I am trying to make a database using IMDbPY library. But when I try to get name with get('cast').
How can I fix it? Code is below:
from imdb import IMDb
ia = IMDb()
def getmovieID( movie_name ):
movie = ia.search_movie(movie_name)[0] # a…

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Is there a way to only get the content of the critic review in imdbpy
I just want to get the content part of the critic review in imdbpy without the rest of it is there a way to do this? or do I have to go through the text myself?

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How do I update a specific parameter of a function, every time a bot runs?
I am writing a bot using gspread and IMDbPy. The script right now takes input(a movie title), it then grabs the movie ID, finds the movie's rating on IMDB.com, then posts the rating onto a spreadsheet into a specific cell.
There is a function named…

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How can I retrieve a given number of movies under a given genre using imdbpy?
I am starting using imdbpy and I am interesting in a way to implement a method with the following specifications:
Inputs:
numberToRetrieve (number of movies to retrive back)
movieGenre (the genre of movies by example:'horror')
Output:
List of…

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Unknown Error grabbing movie information with IMDbPY
I'm developing a bot that will grab information about a specific movie from IMDb with the IMDbPY API. The error I think I'm having is with the 'get_movie()' method in the IMDb() class.
As seen in my code, I have no problem with grabbing the movieID…

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How to scrape movies information from the IMDB website?
I am new with Python and trying to scrape IMDB. I am scraping a list of 250 top IMDB movies and want to get information on each unique website for example the length of each movie.
I already have a list of unique URLs. So, I want to loop over this…

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imdbpy and setuptools - dependency problem
Currently I'm working on one of my first python projects so sorry in advance if some problems seems to be a bit too simple... Anyway.
My simple project uses imdbpy - Python package to access the IMDb's database (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/IMDbPY/).…

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Getting 10,000 Movie Plots with IMDbPY
I'm using IMDbPY in conjunction with the publicly available IMDb datasets (https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/) to create a custom dataset with pandas. The public datasets contain a lot of great info, but don't contain plot info as far as I can see.…

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