Python IMDbPY – Movies Information in XML format
In this article we will see how we can get the movies information in the XML format. Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.
In order to get this we have to do the following
1. Import the IMDbPY module
2. Create a instance of IMDB
3. Get the movie object with the help of get_movie method which requires movie ID
4. Get the XML format value here it will be in string by converting the movie object into XML using asXML method
Below is the implementation
# importing the module import imdb # creating instance of IMDb ia = imdb.IMDb() # id code = "1187043" # getting information movie = ia.get_movie(code) # printing movie name print (movie[ 'title' ]) print ( "--------------------------------" ) # converting movie object into XML file xml_file = movie.asXML() # printing some part of the XML file print (xml_file[: 150 ]) |
Output :
3 Idiots -------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0"? <!DOCTYPE movie SYSTEM "http://imdbpy.sf.net/dtd/imdbpy68.dtd" <cast infoset="main"<
Another example
# importing the module import imdb # creating instance of IMDb ia = imdb.IMDb() # id code = "4434004" # getting information movie = ia.get_movie(code) # printing movie name print (movie[ 'title' ]) print ( "--------------------------------" ) # converting movie object into XML file xml_file = movie.asXML() # printing some part of the XML file print (xml_file[: 150 ]) |
Output :
Udta Punjab -------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0"? <!DOCTYPE movie SYSTEM "http://imdbpy.sf.net/dtd/imdbpy68.dtd" <cast infoset="main"<
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