Python IMDbPY – Searching a person
Last Updated :
18 Jan, 2022
IMDbPY is a Python package which is used to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb. In this article we will see how we can search a person with the given name in the IMDb data base, we can do to this with the help of search_person method.
Syntax : imdb_object.search_person(name)
Argument : It takes string as argument, which is the name of person related to film industry.
Return : It return list, items in list have same or similar name to the searched name.
Below is the implementation
Python3
import imdb
ia = imdb.IMDb()
name = "Akshay Kumar"
search = ia.search_person(name)
for i in search :
print (i)
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Output :
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar Parija
Akshay Kumar Saxena
Akshay Kumar Pradhan
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar Patil
Lakshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar
Lakshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar Ahitan
Akshay Kumar Rahi
Akshay Kumar Boral
Akshaykumar Patil
Akshay Kumar Sharma
Another example os searching a person
Python3
import imdb
ia = imdb.IMDb()
name = "Neil nitin mukesh"
search = ia.search_person(name)
print (search)
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Output :
[Person id:1778703[http] name:_Neil Nitin Mukesh_, Person id:1042471[http] name:_Nitin Mukesh (II)_, Person id:5068738[http] name:_Naman Nitin Mukesh_, Person id:0611482[http] name:_Nitin Mukesh (I)_]
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