omdb.py

Python wrapper around The Open Movie Database API (a.k.a. OMDb API): http://omdbapi.com/

NOTE: This library and its author are not endorsed by or affiliated with OMDbAPI.com.

Installation

Using pip:

pip install omdb

Dependencies

• requests >= 2.0.1

API

Each omdb.py method supports the same parameters as the OMDb API.

Paramters

OMDb API Param	omdb.py Param	Value	Description
s	search	string (optional)	title of media to search for
i	imdbid	string (optional)	a valid IMDb ID
t	title	string (optional)	title of media to return
y	year	year (optional)	year of media
page	page	page (optional)	page to return
Season	season	season (optional)	season number
Episode	episode	episode (optional)	episode number
type	media_type	string (optional)	media type to return (one of movie, episode, or series)
plot=full	fullplot=True	full	include extended plot
plot=short	fullplot=False	short	include short plot (default)
tomatoes=true	tomatoes=True	true (optional)	add Rotten Tomatoes data to response

NOTE: By default all OMDb API responses are formatted as JSON. However, OMDb API also supports responses formatted as XML. Since omdb.py will handle JSON to dict conversion automatically, it's generally not necessary (nor is it supported by the main ombd.py methods) to return XML formatted responses. But this can be accomplished by directly using omdb.request:

import omdb

# must use OMDb API parameters
res = omdb.request(t='True Grit', y=1969, r='xml')
xml_content = res.content

Methods

All methods are accessible via:

import omdb

# omdb.<method>

Method	Description	Returns
get(**params)	Generic request to OMDb API (requires keyword argument passing of all parameters).	dict
search(search, **params)	Search by string.	list
search_movie(search, **params)	Search movies by string.	list
search_episode(search, **params)	Search episodes by string.	list
search_series(search, **params)	Search series by string.	list
imdbid(imdbid, **params)	Get by IMDB ID	dict
title(title, **params)	Get by title	dict
set_default(key, default)	Set default request parameter	None

Client

Instead of using the omdb module to access the OMDb API, one can create an OMDBClient instance:

from omdb import OMDBClient

client = OMDBClient(apikey=API_KEY)

Class Methods	Description	Returns
get(**omdb_params)	Generic request to OMDb API which can be used for any type of query.	list or dict
request(**omdbapi_params)	Lower-level request to OMDb API which accepts URL query parameters supported by OMDb API.	request.Response
set_default(key, default)	Set default request parameter.	None

API Data

API data returned from the OMDb API is returned as a dictionary with their fields converted from CamelCase to underscore_case.

Search Model Fields

OMDb API Field	omdb.py Field
Title	title
Year	year
Type	type
imdbID	imdb_id

Get Model Fields (tomatoes=False)

OMDb API Field	omdb.py Field
Title	title
Year	year
Type	type
Actors	actors
Awards	awards
Country	country
Director	director
Genre	genre
Episode	episode
Episodes	episodes
Season	season
SeriesID	series_id
Language	language
Metascore	metascore
Plot	plot
Poster	poster
Rated	rated
Ratings	ratings
Released	released
Response	response
Runtime	runtime
Writer	writer
imdbID	imdb_id
imdbRating	imdb_rating
imdbVotes	imdb_votes

Get Model Fields (tomatoes=True)

OMDb API Field	omdb.py Field
Title	title
Year	year
Type	type
Actors	actors
Awards	awards
Country	country
Director	director
Genre	genre
Episode	episode
Season	season
SeriesID	series_id
Language	language
Metascore	metascore
Plot	plot
Poster	poster
Rated	rated
Ratings	ratings
Released	released
Runtime	runtime
Writer	writer
imdbID	imdb_id
imdbRating	imdb_rating
imdbVotes	imdb_votes
BoxOffice	box_office
DVD	dvd
Production	production
Website	website
tomatoConsensus	tomato_consensus
tomatoFresh	tomato_fresh
tomatoImage	tomato_image
tomatoMeter	tomato_meter
tomatoRating	tomato_rating
tomatoReviews	tomato_reviews
tomatoRotten	tomato_rotten
tomatoUserMeter	tomato_user_meter
tomatoUserRating	tomato_user_rating
tomatoUserReviews	tomato_user_reviews

Usage

General Import

import omdb

Note

All functions below support a timeout keyword argument that will be forwarded to the underlying requests.get function call. You can also set a global default using omdb.set_default('timeout', <timeout>) that will be used when timeout is not explicitly provided.

API Key

Usage of the OMDb API currently requires an API key. Set the OMDb API key with omdb.set_default or when creating a new omdb.OMDBClient instance:

# if using the module level client
omdb.set_default('apikey', API_KEY)

# if creating a new client instance
client = omdb.OMDBClient(apikey=API_KEY)

omdb.get()

# include full plot and Rotten Tomatoes data
omdb.get(title='True Grit', year=1969, fullplot=True, tomatoes=True)

# set timeout of 5 seconds for this request
omdb.get(title='True Grit', year=1969, fullplot=True, tomatoes=True, timeout=5)

omdb.search()

# search by string
omdb.search('True Grit')
omdb.search('True Grit', timeout=5)
omdb.search('true', page=2)

omdb.search_movie()

# search movies by string
omdb.search_movie('True Grit')
omdb.search_movie('True Grit', timeout=5)
omdb.search_movie('true', page=2)

omdb.search_episode()

# search episodes by string
omdb.search_episode('True Grit')
omdb.search_episode('True Grit', timeout=5)
omdb.search_episode('true', page=2)

omdb.search_series()

# search series by string
omdb.search_series('True Grit')
omdb.search_series('True Grit', timeout=5)
omdb.search_series('true', page=2)

omdb.imdbid()

# get by IMDB id
omdb.imdbid('tt0065126')
omdb.imdbid('tt0065126', timeout=5)

omdb.title()

# get by title
omdb.title('True Grit')
omdb.title('True Grit', timeout=5)

omdb.set_default()

# include tomatoes data by default
omdb.set_default('tomatoes', True)
omdb.title('True Grit') == omdb.title('True Grit', tomatoes=True)

# set a global timeout of 5 seconds for all HTTP requests
omdb.set_default('timeout', 5)

omdb.request()

# lower level API request
omdb.request(t='True Grit', y=1969, plot='full', tomatoes='true', timeout=5)

Returns:

A requests.Response object.

Errors and Exceptions

Under the hood, omdb.py uses the requests library. For a listing of explicit exceptions raised by requests, see Requests: Errors and Exceptions.

By default requests will not raise an Exception when an HTTP response's status code is not 200. However, omdb.py WILL raise an requests.exceptions.HTTPError error for any response with a non-200 status code.