Python IMDbPY – Getting title from searched movie

In this article we will see how we can get the title of movie from the searched list of movies. We use search_movie method to find all the related movies. search_movie method returns list and each element of list work as a dictionary i.e. they can be queried by giving the key of the data, here key will be title.

Syntax : movies[0][‘title’]
Here movies is the list return by search_movie method and movies[0] refer to the first element of list.
Return : It returns string i.e title. 

Below is the implementation: 

Python3

# importing the module
import imdb

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

# name of the movie
name = "Jab Taare Utare Zameen Par"

# searching the name of the movie
search = ia.search_movie(name)

# printing whole list
print(search)

# printing the movies
for i in range(len(search)):
    print(search[i]['title'])

Output :

[Movie id:8142208[http] title:_Jab Taare Utare Zameen Par (2017)_]
Jab Taare Utare Zameen Par

Another example 

Python3

# importing the module
import imdb

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

# name of the movie
name = "Udta punjab"

# searching the name of the movie
search = ia.search_movie(name)

# printing the movies
for i in range(len(search)):
    print(search[i]['title'])

Output :

Udta Punjab
Diljit Dosanjh (Udta Punjab)