santhoshse7en / IMDb-id-Scraper

Simple IMDb id Scraper using Python

IMDb id Scraper

IMDb id [Internet Movie Database identifier] - is an identifier for the IMDb [with prefix 'tt', 'nm', 'co', 'ev', 'ch' or 'ni'] followed by se7en numerical digits. This python script displays the top suggestions from the IMDb site and takes user input to scrape the IMDb id for the selected option.

Dependencies

Use the package manager pip to install following

pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install requests
pip install argparse

Usage

Download it by clicking the green download button here on Github. You only need to parse argument of name you want to search in IMDb.

python main.py --name 'rajini'

or 

python main.py -n 'rajini'

Output

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

MIT