IMDbPY is a Python package for retrieving and managing the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people and companies.

• 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
• released under the terms of the GPL 2 license

IMDbPY 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/alberanid/imdbpy

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

pip install imdbpy

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

from imdb import IMDb

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

# 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.

Copyright (C) 2004-2021 Davide Alberani <da --> mimante.net> et al.

IMDbPY 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.