IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about both movies and people.
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 programmers and developers to provide access to the IMDb's data to their programs.
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
General:
· the 'local' data access system is gone. See README.local.
· the imdb.parser.common package was removed, and its code integrated in imdb.parser.sql and in the imdbpy2sql.py script.
· fixes for the installer.
· the helpers module contains the fullSizeCoverURL function, to convert a Movie, Person or Character instance (or a URL in a string) in an URL to the full-size version of its cover/headshot. Courtesy of Basil Shubin.
· used a newer version of msgfmt.py, to work around a hideous bug generating locales.
· minor updates to locales.
· updated the DTD to version 4.2.
HTTP:
· removed garbage at the end of quotes.
· fixed problems parsing company names and notes.
· keys in character's quotes dictionary are now Movie instances.
· fixed a bug converting entities char references (affected BeautifulSoup).
· fixed a long-standing bug handling & with BeautifulSoup.
· top250 is now correctly parsed by BeautifulSoup.
SQL:
· fixed DB2 call for loading blobs/cblobs.
· information from obsolete files are now used if and only if they refer to still existing titles.
· the --fix-old-style-titles argument is now obsolete.
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