Python IMDbPY – Retrieving role played by actor from the movie details

In this article we will see how we can retrieve the role played by the actor in a given movie from the movie information, movie id is the unique id given to each movie by IMDb. We can use search_movie method to search the movies by their name but it gives many movies as they have same names therefore retrieving a movie by its id is a better option. It is not compulsory that all actor information will be there and what role they have played it varies from movie to movie. In order to search a movie by its id we use get_movie method. and for getting actors list we use movie[‘cast’] where movie is the movie object

Syntax to get role played by actor : role = cast[n].notes Here cast is the list returned by movie[‘cast]

Below is the implementation. 

Python3

# importing the module
import imdb

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

# ID
code = "1187043"

# getting movie
movie = ia.get_movie(code)

# printing movie object
print(movie)

print("===============")

# getting cast
cast = movie['cast']

# actor name from cast
actor = cast[35]
print(actor)

# role played
role = actor.notes

print(role)

Output :

3 Idiots
===============
Vaidyanathan
(as Prof. Vaidyanathan)

Another example 

Python3

# importing the module
import imdb

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

# ID
code = "0075860"

# getting movie
movie = ia.get_movie(code)

# printing movie object
print(movie)

print("===============")

# getting cast
cast = movie['cast']

# actor name from cast
actor = cast[1]
print(actor)

# role played
role = actor.notes

print(role)

Output :

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
===============
François Truffaut
(as Francois Truffaut)