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.
Revamp notice
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!)
- 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?
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
Here's an example that demonstrates how to use Cinemagoer:
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'])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.
Visit the CONTRIBUTOR_GUIDE.rst to learn how you can contribute to the Cinemagoer package.
Copyright (C) 2004-2022 Davide Alberani <da --> mimante.net> et al.
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.
