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

# Written in pure Python (and few C lines)

# Platform-independent

# Can retrieve data from both the IMDb's web server and a local copy of the whole database

# Released under the terms of the GPL 2 license

			#!/usr/bin/env python
 
 from imdb import IMDb
 ia
			= IMDb()
 
 the_matrix = ia.get_movie('0133093')

			print the_matrix['director']
 
 for person in
			ia.search_person('Mel Gibson'):
     print
			person.personID, person['name']
		

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#NEWS

16 Jun 2012: IMDbPY 4.9 released

With the usual hurry, here it is IMDbPY 4.9.

As you can see, we also have a shiny new web site, courtesy of Alberto Malagoli. Many thanks to him, and we hope you like it!

In this release: an urgent fix for the search queries, some new features like a "gender" field for persons in the database, improved performances restoring imdbIDs and many other fixes.
Changelog for the 4.9 version.

#WHAT'S GOIN' ON

14 Dec 2012: need for help
Once again, IMDb changed a lot of their web pages, especially the search results. We need help from developers to update IMDbPY; see this thread.

16 Jun 2012: celebrating the new release!
Be happy, a shiny new version of IMDbPY is out!

27 May 2012: workaround for imdbpy2sql.py slowness
If you experience some massive slowdown of the imdbpy2sql.py script, especially on Ubuntu 12.04, please try installing SQLAlchemy and adding the "-o sqlalchemy" option to the command line.

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