Python IMDbPY – Getting genres of the series

In this article we will see how we can get the genres of the series, genres are basically category to divide a series for example romantic, drama, action etc.

In order to get the genres of the movie we have to do the following – 1. Get the series details with the help of get_movie method 2. As this object will act as dictionary therefore we have to filter the object 3. Get the main data of object with the help of data method which will return dictionary 4. Get the genres details from the dictionary

Below is the implementation 

Python3

# importing the module
import imdb

# creating instance of IMDb
ia = imdb.IMDb()

# id
code = "6473300"

# getting information
series = ia.get_movie(code)

# getting genre of the series
genre = series.data['genres']

# printing the object i.e name
print(series)

# print the genre
print(genre)

Output :

Sacred Games
['Action', 'Crime', 'Drama', 'Thriller']

Another example 

Python3

# importing the module
import imdb

# creating instance of IMDb
ia = imdb.IMDb()

# id
code = "6473300"

# getting information
series = ia.get_movie(code)

# getting genre of the series
genre = series.data['genres']

# printing the object i.e name
print(series)

# print the genre
print(genre)

Mirzapur
['Action', 'Crime', 'Drama', 'Thriller']