What is IMDbPY

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 programmers and developers to provide access to the IMDb's data to their programs.

You can also download some programs based on IMDbPY; moreover some simple example scripts are included in the package.

IMDbPY is free software (open source) and it is released under the terms of the GPL license.

SourceForge page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/imdbpy/
Freshmeat page: http://freshmeat.net/projects/imdbpy/
PyPI page: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/IMDbPY/
FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory: http://directory.fsf.org/IMDbPY.html

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What's new
(22 Sept 2008)

IMDbPY 3.7 is available!
This release contains a major improvement: thanks to the work of H. Turgut Uyar, all the parsers for the "http" data access system are now based on a DOM/XPath approach, and they should be much easier to write, read and maintain; the old set of parsers (SAX-based) is still available (for this release only, probably). For more information, please read README.newparsers.
Packagers should also read the notes in the README.txt file.

Read the complete Changelog for the 3.7 version.

What's going on
(02 Oct 2008)

In the CVS, besides fixes for some expected minor bugs in the new set of parsers, there's the initial support for SQLAlchemy (it will be maintained side-by-side with SQLObject, which will not be abandoned). If you know something about SQLAlchemy, please help.

There is a new mailing list, reserved for users support: visit imdbpy-help to subscribe.

To join the development of IMDbPY, see the development page.

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