In this article we will see how we can get the released year of movie from the movie object, we can get movie object with the help of search_movie and get_movie method to find movies.
search_movie method returns list and each element of list work as a dictionary similarly get_movie method return a movie object which work as dictionary i.e. they can be queried by giving the key of the data, here key will be year.
Syntax : movie[‘year’]
Here movie is the imdb Movie object
Return : It returns integer which is the release year
Below is the implementation
# importing the module import imdb # creating instance of IMDb ia = imdb.IMDb() # getting the movie with id search = ia.get_movie("0111161") # getting movie year year = search['year'] # printing movie name and year print(search['title'] + " : " + str(year)) |
Output :
The Shawshank Redemption : 1994
Another example
# importing the module import imdb # creating instance of IMDb ia = imdb.IMDb() # getting the movie with name search = ia.search_movie("3 Idiots") # getting movie year year = search[0]['year'] # printing movie name and year print(search[0]['title'] + " : " + str(year)) |
Output :
3 Idiots : 2009
