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'])