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Cinemagoer 2023.05.01 released

What's new in release 2023.05.01 (1922)

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#424: parse the "fullcredits" page for persons (courtesy of DLu)
#443: fix parser for plot summary (courtesy of Saleh Dehqanpour)
#448: always transform ratings to float
various other parsers fixed
Posted by Davide Alberani 2023-05-01 Labels: cinemagoer imdb movies cinema series db

Cinemagoer 2022.12.27 released

This version fixes a lot of recent bugs searching and parsing movie and person pages.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2022-12-27

Cinemagoer 2022.12.04 released

This version fixes a lot of recent bugs searching and parsing movie and person pages.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2022-12-04

IMDbPY 2021.04.18

Release 2021.04.18 of IMDbPY is now available, with multiple bugfixes and improvements.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2021-04-18 Labels: movie cinema actor actress film database imdb db tv series python imdbpy

IMDbPY 2020.09.25

Release 2020.09.25 of IMDbPY is now available, with multiple bugfixes and improvements.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2020-09-25 Labels: imdb imdbpy movies tv series cinema

IMDbPY 6.8

In the release 6.8 (codename "Apollo 11") of IMDbPY, multiple parsers were added and fixes; the new search_movie_advanced method allows advanced movie searches.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2019-07-20 Labels: imdbpy imdb movies database db cinema tv series python

IMDbPY 6.7

In the release 6.7 (codename "Game of Thrones") of IMDbPY, multiple parsers were fixes.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2019-05-19 Labels: imdbpy imdb database movies cinema actor actress db

IMDbPY 6.6

In the release 6.6 of IMDbPY, multiple parsers were fixes, problems with the certificates solved and AKAs are parsed from the new dataset.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2018-08-05 Labels: imdb database imdbpy sql movie cinema python

IMDbPY 6.5

IMDbPY 6.5 is out! In this release, some fixes a new major improvements: the http parsers are now based on piculet, and the documentation was converted to sphinx format. Download it from https://imdbpy.sourceforge.io/

Posted by Davide Alberani 2018-04-15

IMDbPY 6.4.1

IMDbPY 6.4.1 removes some forgotten debug code. Download it from https://imdbpy.sourceforge.io/

Posted by Davide Alberani 2018-03-16 Labels: imdb imdbpy python library cinema movies dataset

IMDbPY 6.4

IMDbPY 6.4 is out! In this release, fixes for the search parsers. Download it from https://imdbpy.sourceforge.io/

Posted by Davide Alberani 2018-03-14 Labels: imdb database cinema movies cast infoset db imdbpy python

IMDbPY 6.3

IMDbPY 6.3 is out! In this release, support for the new dataset and a lot of fixes for the new web pages of IMDb. Download it from https://imdbpy.sourceforge.io/

Posted by Davide Alberani 2018-02-27 Labels: imdb movie database dataset cinema python library

IMDbPY 6.2

IMDbPY 6.2 is available; this version introduce some important bugfixes and the ability to install the package without SQLAlchemy.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2017-11-19 Labels: 6.2

IMDbPY 6.0

IMDbPY 6.0 is available; this is the first release to support Python 3 (a Python 2 version is available in the "imdbpy-legacy" branch).
Besides this, we removed the "mobile" data access system and the dependencies from SQLObject, a C compiler and BeautifulSoup.
Also, a testsuite was introduce.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2017-11-12

IMDbPY 5.1 released

After a long time, a new version of IMDbPY!
Many problems are still open, so if you want to help the development, join this project.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2016-11-18 Labels: imdb imdbpy new-release

IMDbPY 5.0 released

In this release: many fixes to stay aligned with the IMDb web site.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2014-05-04

IMDbPY 4.9 released

IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage all the data of the IMDb movie database.

In this release: an urgent fix for the search queries, some new features like a "gender" field for persons in the database, improved performances restoring imdbIDs and many other fixes.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2012-06-16

IMDbPY 4.8.1 released

Believe it or not, some debug strings were let in the code and the installer of the locales was wrong, so 4.8.1 is already here. :-)

Posted by Davide Alberani 2011-11-02

IMDbPY 4.8 released

IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage all the data of the IMDb movie database.

In this release, a lot of bug fixes and a new web sites! http://imdbpy.sf.net/

Some problems are still open, so if you want to help the development, contact us.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2011-11-01

IMDbPY 4.7 released

IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage all the data of the IMDb movie database.

This is a transitional release, after the recent redesign of the IMDb pages.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2011-01-23

IMDbPY 4.6 released

IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage all the data of the IMDb movie database.

In this release, a lot of minor fixes and some overall improvements.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2010-06-20

IMDbPY is moving to Mercurial

We're moving our source code to a Mercurial repository; see more information here: http://imdbpy.sf.net/?page=download#hg

Posted by Davide Alberani 2010-03-08

IMDbPY 4.5.1

IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage all the data of the IMDb movie database.

In this release, fixes for the ill-fated 4.5 release. :-)

Posted by Davide Alberani 2010-03-01

IMDbPY 4.5 released

IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage all the data of the IMDb movie database.

In this release, important fixes to access the remote data and some improvements to the local database.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2010-02-28

IMDbPY 4.4 released

IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage all the data of the IMDb movie database.

In this release, a huge number of bugs were fixed and many parsers were made more robust.

Posted by Davide Alberani 2010-01-06