Python IMDbPY – Getting role of person in the movie

In this article we will see how we can get the role of person the movie, we know movie object act similar to dictionary. IMDb data base has lot of information i.e details about the persons work in the movie and what was there role in that movie.

In order to the role of the person we have to do the following –
1. Get the movie object with the help of get_movie method 
2. Get the cast details from the movie object 
3. Get the role of desired person with the help of currentRole method 
4. Show the result 

Below is the implementation 

Python3

# 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
cast = movie['cast']

# printing actor name
print(cast[0])

# getting role
role = cast[0].currentRole

# printing role
print(role)

Output :

Aamir Khan
Ranchoddas 'Rancho' Shyamaldas Chanchad / Phunsukh Wangdu

Another example 

Python3

# 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
cast = movie['cast']

# printing actor name
print(cast[0])

# getting role
role = cast[0].currentRole

# printing role
print(role)

Output :

Shahid Kapoor
Tommy Singh