https://github.com/santhoshse7en/imdby

imdby is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people, characters and companies.
https://github.com/santhoshse7en/imdby

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

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/santhoshse7en/imdby
• Owner: santhoshse7en
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-05-21T02:21:01.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-05-28T07:17:52.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-18T06:19:11.628Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: beautifulsoup4, bs4, characters, imdb, imdb-api, imdb-movie, imdb-movie-database, imdb-movies, imdb-webscrapping, movies, pandas, pypi, python, scrapers, sys, time, without-api
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://santhoshse7en.github.io/imdby/
• Size: 584 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# imdby

**imdby** is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the [IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/) 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 for IMDb user reviews is included.

- 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

## Dependencies

* beautifulsoup4

* selenium

* chromedriver-binary

* vaderSentiment

* textblob

* pandas

## Installation

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

```bash

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

```

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

```bash

pip install imdby

```

## A Glance

Download it by clicking the green download button here on Github. Here's an example that demonstrates how to use imdby:

```python

# create an instance of the IMDb class

from imdb.imdb import IMDb

ia = IMDb()

# get a movie

cast = ia.full_cast_and_crew('tt4154796')

# print the names of 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)

```

## Getting help

Please refer to the the online documentation on [Read The Docs](https://imdby.readthedocs.io/).

## Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

## License

[MIT](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/)