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Cinemagoer (previously known as IMDbPY) is a Python package for retrieving and managing the data of the IMDb_ movie database about movies, people and companies.

This project and its authors are not affiliated in any way to Internet Movie Database Inc.; see the DISCLAIMER.txt_ file for details about data licenses.

.. admonition:: Revamp notice :class: note

Starting on November 2017, many things were improved and simplified:

moved the package to Python 3 (compatible with Python 2.7)
removed dependencies: SQLObject, C compiler, BeautifulSoup
removed the "mobile" and "httpThin" parsers
introduced a test suite (please help with it!_)

Main features

written in Python 3 (compatible with Python 2.7)
platform-independent
simple and complete API
released under the terms of the GPL 2 license

Cinemagoer powers many other software and has been used in various research papers. Curious about that_?

Installation

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

pip install git+https://github.com/cinemagoer/cinemagoer

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

pip install cinemagoer

Example

Here's an example that demonstrates how to use Cinemagoer:

.. code-block:: python

from imdb import Cinemagoer

create an instance of the Cinemagoer class

ia = Cinemagoer()

get a movie

movie = ia.get_movie('0133093')

print the names of the directors of the movie

print('Directors:') for director in movie['directors']: print(director['name'])

print the genres of the movie

print('Genres:') for genre in movie['genres']: print(genre)

# search for a person name people = ia.search_person('Mel Gibson') for person in people: print(person.personID, person['name'])

Getting help

Please refer to the support_ page on the project homepage_ and to the the online documentation on Read The Docs_.

The sources are available on GitHub_.

Contribute

Visit the CONTRIBUTOR_GUIDE.rst_ to learn how you can contribute to the Cinemagoer package.

License

Cinemagoer is released under the GPL license, version 2 or later. Read the included LICENSE.txt_ file for details.

NOTE: For a list of persons who share the copyright over specific portions of code, see the CONTRIBUTORS.txt_ file.

NOTE: See also the recommendations in the DISCLAIMER.txt_ file.

.. _IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/ .. _please help with it!: http://cinemagoer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/devel/test.html .. _Curious about that: https://cinemagoer.github.io/ecosystem/ .. _project homepage: https://cinemagoer.github.io/ .. _support: https://cinemagoer.github.io/support/ .. _Read The Docs: https://cinemagoer.readthedocs.io/ .. _GitHub: https://github.com/cinemagoer/cinemagoer .. _CONTRIBUTOR_GUIDE.rst: https://github.com/ethorne2/cinemagoer/blob/documentation-add-contributor-guide/CONTRIBUTOR_GUIDE.rst .. _LICENSE.txt: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cinemagoer/cinemagoer/master/LICENSE.txt .. _CONTRIBUTORS.txt: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cinemagoer/cinemagoer/master/CONTRIBUTORS.txt .. _DISCLAIMER.txt: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cinemagoer/cinemagoer/master/DISCLAIMER.txt

Cinemagoer

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