imdbpy | Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data | Database library
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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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- Applies the diff files to the Imdb list
- Build a movie from a string .
- Parse the title and episode metadata .
- This function is used to find the ka subtitles .
- main function for nmmv files
- Runs the main script .
- Parse an ElementTree node .
- Build a person .
- Create a catalog entry from a . po file .
- Build a title from a dictionary .
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QUESTION
So I am trying to use the IMDBpy module to connect a list of programs to their respective Genres. First I am trying to get a new list of their IMDB IDs to, from there, get their corresponding Genre. Unfortunately I am unable to iterate through my list of programs and generate a new list of corresponding IDs. Somehow my function gets stuck at the first iteration. What am I missing in my definition?
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Answered 2020-Jul-21 at 10:01I mean change your for-loop code to this :
QUESTION
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 through https://github.com/alberanid/imdbpy but looks like there are no such API's to get user reviewed data.
Can anyone please guide me in the right direction?
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Answered 2020-May-24 at 16:31I guess that's what you are looking for: http://www.omdbapi.com IMDB api.
QUESTION
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:
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Answered 2020-May-16 at 08:50You have to consider that movie.get('casts') will return a list of Person objects, and not a dictionary with the 'name' key.
Another (minor) thing I notice is that you get the movieID of the first result and then fetch the movie again. This may be omitted using the ia.update method.
A working example (that still assumes a lot of things, like the fact that a search will give you at least one result):
QUESTION
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 .
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Answered 2020-Feb-08 at 12:18While it is not obvious from the imdbpy docs. You can always check the attributes of variable by checking the keys of the variables. Not all information that you are looking for is not immediately available when you scrape a movie using imdbpy. In your case you want to get the reviews. So you have to add them. We can see in the infoset, that there are three different types of reviews; 'reviews', 'external reviews', and 'critic reviews'. The keys that are associated with these are not added yet. The example below shows how it is done.
QUESTION
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. IMDbPY does contain plot summaries, in addition to plot synopses and keywords for plots in the form of the plot, synopsis, and keywords keys of the movie class/dictionary.
I can get the plot for individual keys by making an API call: ia.get_movie(movie_index[2:])['plot'][0] where I use [2:] because the first 2 characters of the index are 'tt' in the public dataset and [0] because there are many plot summaries so I am taking the first one from IMDbPY.
However, to get 10,000 plot summaries, I would need to make 10,000 API calls which would take me 7.5 hours, assuming each API call takes 2.7 seconds (which is what I found using tqdm). So a solution to this is to let it run overnight. Are there any other solutions? Also, is there a better way of doing this than my current way of creating a dictionary with the keys as movie index (e.g. tt0111161 for "Shawshank Redemption") and the values as plots and then converting that dictionary to a dataframe? Any insight is appreciated. My code is below:
ANSWER
Answered 2019-Feb-28 at 22:15First of all, consider that doing so many queries in so little time may be considered against their terms of service: https://www.imdb.com/conditions
However, 10.000 queries to a major web site is not that much to create any real problem, especially if you wait few seconds between each call just for being nicer (it will take longer, but that should not be a big deal in your case - but again see above regarding the license, that you must respect).
I can suggest two different options:
- use the old dataset, that is free to use for personal and non-commercial usage and IMDbPY is able to parse; the drawback is that the data is a little outdated (end of 2017): https://imdbpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/ptdf.html
- use an alternative source, like https://www.omdbapi.com/ or https://www.themoviedb.org/ which should have public APIs and more permissive licenses.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the main authors of IMDbPY
QUESTION
I am completely noob at handling exceptions and I've been learning to work with IMDbPy. I wanted to catch the exception if a user enters an invalid ID. I tried
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Answered 2019-Sep-26 at 21:08The raised exception is of type IOError, which is one of the Python built-in exceptions and you're only catching IMDbDataAccessError which is not a parent of IOError.
You can catch them separately (example with ZeroDivisionError instead of IOError), like:
QUESTION
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: Service Temporarily Unavailable. After 10-15 minutes I can process again but after approximately 20 requests the same error occurs again.
I am aware that it might be a simple block from the api to prevent too many calls however I can't find any info about maximum number of requests per time unit on the web.
Do you have any idea how to process so many calls without being shutdown? Moreover, do you know where I can find the documentation of imdb api?
Best
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Answered 2017-Aug-17 at 21:29Please, don't do it.
Scraping is forbidden by IMDb's terms of service, and IMDbPY was never intended to be used to mass-scrape the web site: in fact it's explicitly designed to fetch a single movie at a time.
In theory IMDbPY can manage the plain text data files they distribute, but unfortunately they recently changed both the format and the content of the data.
IMDb has no APIs that I know of; if you have to manage such a huge portion of their data, you have to get a licence.
Please consider the use of http://www.omdbapi.com/
QUESTION
I'm working on getting details for list of movies from IMDB using Imdbpy library. However I'm unable to handle the generated exception.
Can anyone please let me know where am I going wrong?
Here's the code:
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Answered 2019-Mar-21 at 09:56Actually you are handling the exception, you just decided to handling it without doing anything.
Your code thanks to the exception handling continues executing and among the errors there are also the correct lines:
QUESTION
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 to get the length of the movie using Imdbpy.
I have gone through the documentation, but it didn't help out.
I know we can scrap the length of the movie using requests and beautifulsoup libraries. But I was looking for an efficient way to do it using Imdbpy.
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Answered 2019-Mar-03 at 13:30No worries.
I should be looking for runtimes key in movie dictionary. BTW I didn't find this in documentation.
QUESTION
i want to retrieve plot keywords for specific movie id using IMDBPY from IMDb .any idea? i just know that
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Answered 2018-Nov-04 at 09:37You need to add one more parameter that's info='keywords' to get the keywords of a movie.
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