IMDbPY 3.8

Without fear to compete in popularity with the American vote,
I've released IMDbPY 3.8!

The main news, is the support for BOTH SQLObject (default) and
SQLAlchemy.  SQLAlchemy is still in beta, so test it and help,
if you can.

As usual: http://imdbpy.sf.net/

Bye,
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Get a movie cover picture/thumbnail

Hello,

Thanks for IMDbPy, it is very useful.

Question:

How do you get the picture of a movie's cover, or a thumbnail of the
movie's cover?

Thanks,
Andy

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Re: Get a movie cover picture/thumbnail

On Nov 09, Andrew Kelley <superjoe30@...> wrote:

> Thanks for IMDbPy, it is very useful.

Hello, and thank you!

> How do you get the picture of a movie's cover, or a thumbnail of the
> movie's cover?

If present, the url is accessible through movie['cover url'].
Beware that it could be missing, so you must first test it with
something like:
   if 'cover url' in movie:
       ...

After that, you can use the urllib module to fetch the image itself.

To provide a complete example, something like that should do the trick:
  import urllib
  from imdb import IMDb

  ia = IMDb(#yourParameters)
  movie = ia.get_movie(#theMovieID)

  if 'cover url' in movie:
      urlObj = urllib.urlopen(movie['cover url'])
      imageData = urlObj.read()
      urlObj.close()
      # now you can save imageData in a file (open it in binary mode).

Re: Get a movie cover picture/thumbnail

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imdb id - how do i get that information quicker from the web ?

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Re: imdb id - how do i get that information quicker from the web ?

On Nov 11, ori cohen <orioric@...> wrote:

> i made a little script to go over all the movies in the titles table
> and update their imdb ID, ignoring tv series and video games etc..
> the list is 400,000 in size. its taking quite a while for each file
> to get the imdb id, because its taking it from the web.
> 
> is there a quicker way of doing that?

For sure there is, but please: don't do it.
A thing is using IMDbPY for a light-weighted usage (fetching a
movie/person ID here and there, when needed), another is exploiting
their web site to fetch every single movie page in the database.

See the links in http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/docs/DISCLAIMER.txt
for an overview of IMDb's policies.

The movie/person/whateverIDs are not present in the plain text data
files distributed by IMDb, and so IMDbPY is forced to fabricate
them (and as you have noticed they don't match with the "real" imdbIDs
used by the IMDb web site); anyway, there's no real need to have a
complete map between titles and imdbIDs for personal usage.
Moreover, titles are changed/updated/fixed, and so the map will be
(partially) wrong in no time.

Thanks,
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