imdby

imdby is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, person, characters, companies, events and news.

Source	Link
PyPI:	https://pypi.org/project/imdby/
Repository:	https://github.com/santhoshse7en/imdby/
Documentation:	https://santhoshse7en.github.io/imdby_doc/

Main features

• imdby is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, person, characters, companies, events and news.

• Sentiment Analysis included for IMDb user reviews.

• written in Python 3 (compatible with Python 2.7)

• platform-independent

• can retrieve data from both the IMDb's web server, or a local copy of the database

• simple and complete API

Installation

Whenever possible, please use the latest version from the repository:

pip install git+https://github.com/santhoshse7en/imdby

But if you want, you can also install the latest release from PyPI:

pip install imdby

Example

Here’s an example that demonstrates how to use imdby:

# create an instance of the IMDb class
from imdb.imdb import IMDb

# create an instance of the IMDb class
ia = IMDb()

# get a movie
cast = ia.full_cast_and_crew('tt4154796')

# print the directors of the movie
print('Directors:')
for director in cast.directors:
    print(director)

# search for a person name
people = ia.search_person('Simon Baker')
print(people.person_id, people.person_name)