#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
get_movie.py
Usage: get_movie "imdbID"
Show some info about the movie with the given imdbID (e.g. '0133093'
for "The Matrix".
"""
import sys
# Import the IMDbPY package.
try:
import imdb
except ImportError:
print 'You bad boy! You need to install the IMDbPY package!'
sys.exit(1)
if len(sys.argv) != 2:
print 'Only one argument is required:'
print ' %s "imdbID"' % sys.argv[0]
sys.exit(2)
imdbID = sys.argv[1]
i = imdb.IMDb()
out_encoding = sys.stdout.encoding or sys.getdefaultencoding()
try:
# Get a Movie object with the data about the movie identified by
# the given imdbID.
movie = i.get_movie(imdbID)
except imdb.IMDbError, e:
print "Probably you're not connected to Internet. Complete error report:"
print e
sys.exit(3)
if not movie:
print 'It seems that there\'s no movie with imdbID "%s"' % imdbID
sys.exit(4)
# XXX: this is the easier way to print the main info about a movie;
# calling the summary() method of a Movie object will returns a string
# with the main information about the movie.
# Obviously it's not really meaningful if you want to know how
# to access the data stored in a Movie object, so look below; the
# commented lines show some ways to retrieve information from a
# Movie object.
print movie.summary().encode(out_encoding, 'replace')
# Show some info about the movie.
# This is only a short example; you can get a longer summary using
# 'print movie.summary()' and the complete set of information looking for
# the output of the movie.keys() method.
#print '==== "%s" / imdbID: %s ====' % (movie['title'], imdbID)
# XXX: use the IMDb instance to get the IMDb web URL for the movie.
#imdbURL = i.get_imdbURL(movie)
#if imdbURL:
# print 'IMDb URL: %s' % imdbURL
#
# XXX: many keys return a list of values, like "genres".
#genres = movie.get('genres')
#if genres:
# print 'Genres: %s' % ' '.join(genres)
#
# XXX: even when only one value is present (e.g.: movie with only one
# director), fields that can be multiple are ALWAYS a list.
# Note that the 'name' variable is a Person object, but since its
# __str__() method returns a string with the name, we can use it
# directly, instead of name['name']
#director = movie.get('director')
#if director:
# print 'Director(s): ',
# for name in director:
# sys.stdout.write('%s ' % name)
# print ''
#
# XXX: notice that every name in the cast is a Person object, with a
# currentRole instance variable, which is a string for the played role.
#cast = movie.get('cast')
#if cast:
# print 'Cast: '
# cast = cast[:5]
# for name in cast:
# print ' %s (%s)' % (name['name'], name.currentRole)
# XXX: some information are not lists of strings or Person objects, but simple
# strings, like 'rating'.
#rating = movie.get('rating')
#if rating:
# print 'Rating: %s' % rating
# XXX: an example of how to use information sets; retrieve the "trivia"
# info set; check if it contains some data, select and print a
# random entry.
#import random
#i.update(movie, info=['trivia'])
#trivia = movie.get('trivia')
#if trivia:
# rand_trivia = trivia[random.randrange(len(trivia))]
# print 'Random trivia: %s' % rand_trivia
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