from imdb import IMDb
ia = IMDb()
the_matrix = ia.get_movie('0133093')
print the_matrix['director']
for person in ia.search_person('Mel Gibson'):
print person.personID, person['name']
As you can see, we also have a shiny new web site, courtesy of Alberto Malagoli. Many thanks to him, and we hope you like it!
In this release: an urgent fix for the search queries, some new features like a "gender" field for persons in the database, improved performances restoring imdbIDs and many other fixes.
Changelog for the 4.9 version.
workaround for imdbpy2sql.py slowness
If you experience some massive slowdown of the
imdbpy2sql.py script, especially on Ubuntu 12.04, please try installing SQLAlchemy and adding the
"-o sqlalchemy" option to the command line.
enhancements for (re)storing imdbIDs
In the repository, there are already many fixes and some huge improvements in the handling of imdbIDs in the SQL database. Moreover,
Emmanuel Tabard kindly joined the development team. Welcome!