Python IMDbPY – Searching a person
IMDbPY is a Python package which is used to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb. In this article we will see how we can search a person with the given name in the IMDb data base, we can do to this with the help of search_person method.
Syntax : imdb_object.search_person(name)
Argument : It takes string as argument, which is the name of person related to film industry.
Return : It return list, items in list have same or similar name to the searched name.
Below is the implementation
Python3
# importing the module import imdb # creating instance of IMDb ia = imdb.IMDb() # name of the person name = "Akshay Kumar" # searching the name of the person search = ia.search_person(name) # printing the result for i in search : print (i) |
Output :
Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar Parija Akshay Kumar Saxena Akshay Kumar Pradhan Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar Patil Lakshay Kumar Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar Lakshay Kumar Akshay Kumar Ahitan Akshay Kumar Rahi Akshay Kumar Boral Akshaykumar Patil Akshay Kumar Sharma
Another example os searching a person
Python3
# importing the module import imdb # creating instance of IMDb ia = imdb.IMDb() # name of the person name = "Neil nitin mukesh" # searching the name of the person search = ia.search_person(name) # printing the result print (search) |
Output :
[Person id:1778703[http] name:_Neil Nitin Mukesh_, Person id:1042471[http] name:_Nitin Mukesh (II)_, Person id:5068738[http] name:_Naman Nitin Mukesh_, Person id:0611482[http] name:_Nitin Mukesh (I)_]
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