cinemagoer/cinemagoer

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Cinemagoer (formerly IMDbPY) is a Python package for retrieving and managing IMDb data about movies, people, characters, and companies from IMDb's non-commercial downloadable TSV datasets. It provides a simple API over a local database (SQLite by default, or any SQLAlchemy-supported database) populated from the IMDb datasets.

Use cases

• query imdb movie data from python
• search for people and movies by name
• import imdb tsv datasets into a local sqlite database
• get directors, cast, and genres of a movie programmatically
• build a local movie database for an app
• analyze imdb datasets for research

When to choose

• you need programmatic access to IMDb data offline from a local database
• you want a mature Python API over the free IMDb datasets
• you need SQLite or SQLAlchemy-backed storage of movie/person data

When to avoid

• you need to parse live IMDb web pages (use cinemagoerng instead)
• you need real-time data not present in the periodic dataset dumps
• you require a license other than GPL-2.0

Facets

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database parser web-scraping search-engine sdk databases entertainment developer-tools python cross-platform imdb movies movie-database sql sqlite sqlalchemy tsv-datasets cinema data-engineering

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