First set up an alias for the command:
alias imdbtool="python /path/to/imdbplugin.py"
Show all info about file X-Men.First.Class
imdbtool -t /path/to/X-Men.First.Class.2011.720p.BrRip.264.YIFY.mp4
Show all info about 1969 version of 'Sherlock'
imdbtool -t /path/to/Sherlock.1924.avi
Show best guess for a misspelled name
imdbtool -t "Ture git"
Print movie's rating
imdbtool -t Cars | sed -n '/^imdbrating/{n;p;}'
Download movie's poster
imdbtool -t Cars | wget `sed -n '/^poster/{n;p;}'`
Show info by IMDb id
imdbtool -i tt0103064
Example to get ratings for all movies in current directory (it will use directory and file names as movie titles):
Save following code to file get_ratings.sh (make sure to update the path in line 3):
ls -1 |
while read title; do
res=`python /path/to/imdbtool.py -t "$title"`
rating=`echo "$res" | sed -n '/^imdbrating/{n;p;}'`
restitle=`echo "$res" | sed -n '/^title/{n;p;}' | sed s/*//g`
year=`echo "$res" | sed -n '/^year/{n;p;}'`
echo "$title * $restitle * $year * $rating"
done
Then execute the saved command to fetch all the ratings: ./get_ratings.sh > ratings.txt
(it'll take a while to retrieve all the data). Then you can open the ratings.txt file to see the movie ratings, or you can sort the movies by ratings to pick the best one to watch: < ratings.txt sort -t* -k4 -r
- requires Python 2.7+ (or earlier with installed argparse package)
- thanks to creator of this [great site called OM-D-BAPI][omdbapi]
I was aware of [this existing tool][fetcher] but unfortunately it was broken at the time I tried it. My implementation relies on the third-party API that handles up to 2 million queries a day, so it's safe to assume that it's author will be keeping it up to date. On the other hand, IMDb has jumped onto the douchebag bandwagon and issued a cease and desist order to the creator of the IMDBAPI, so it might stop working any time.