Python IMDbPY – Retrieving Person using Person ID

IMDbPY is a Python package for retrieving information from the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. To retrieve information about a person using their IMDb ID, you can use IMDbPY’s IMDb() class. Here’s how to do it:

First, make sure you have IMDbPY installed. You can install it using pip:

pip install IMDbPY

Now, you can use the following code to retrieve information about a person by their IMDb ID:

from imdb import IMDb

# Create an instance of the IMDb class
ia = IMDb()

# Replace 'nm0000243' with the IMDb ID of the person you want to retrieve
person_id = 'nm0000243'

# Use the get_person method to retrieve information about the person
person = ia.get_person(person_id)

# Print the person's information
print(f"Name: {person['name']}")
print(f"Birthdate: {person['birth date']}")
print(f"Birthplace: {person['birth notes']}")  # birthplace may be stored in 'birth notes' field
print(f"Biography: {person['mini biography']}")

# You can access more information about the person by exploring the 'person' dictionary

The code above, we create an instance of the IMDb class, and then we use the get_person() method to retrieve information about the person with the specified IMDb ID ('nm0000243' in this example). You can replace this IMDb ID with the one you are interested in.

The person object contains various attributes such as the person’s name, birth date, birthplace, and a mini-biography. You can access additional information about the person by exploring the attributes of the person object.

Make sure you have an active internet connection when running this code, as IMDbPY fetches data from the IMDb website.