IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people, characters and companies.

• written in pure Python (and few, optional, C lines)
• platform-independent
• can retrieve data from both the IMDb's web server and a local copy of the whole database
• a simple and complete API
• released under the terms of the GPL 2 license
• IMDbPY powers many other softwares and has been used in various research papers. Curious about that?

from imdb import IMDb
ia = IMDb()

# print the director(s) of a movie
the_matrix = ia.get_movie('0133093')
print the_matrix['director']

# search for a person
for person in ia.search_person('Mel Gibson'):
    print person.personID, person['name']

IMDbPY is released under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 (or later) license.