IMDbPY 4.9

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

Platform-independent and written in pure Python (and few C lines), it can retrieve data from both the IMDb's web server and a local copy of the whole database.

IMDbPY package can be very easily used by developers or programmers to provide access to the IMDb's data to their programs.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

[general]:
· urls used to access the IMDb site can be configured.
· helpers function to handle movie AKAs in various
· languages (code by Alberto Malagoli).
· renamed the 'articles' module into 'linguistics'.
· introduced the 'reraiseExceptions' option, to re-raise
· evey caught exception.

[http]:
· fix for changed search parameters.
· introduced a 'timeout' parameter for connections to the web server.
· fix for business information.
· parser for the new style of episodes list.
· unicode searches handled as iso8859-1.
· fix for garbage in AKA titles.

[sql]:
· vastly improved the store/restore of imdbIDs; now it should be faster
· and more accurate.
· now the 'name' table contains a 'gender' field that can be 'm', 'f' or NULL.
· fix for nicknames.
· fix for missing titles in the crazy credits file.
· handled exceptions creating indexes, foreign keys and
· executing custom queries.
· fixed creation on index for keywords.
· excluded {{SUSPENDED}} titles.