Hi Moritz,

Thanks for this suggestion.

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 10:54:58PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Source: imdbpy
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi Ana,
> one of IMHO the coolest features of imdbpy (the possibility to create a local 
> DB using
> the data dumps provided on https://datasets.imdbws.com) is currently quite 
> hidden.
> 
> How about updating the package description to something like
> 
> -----------
> IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of
> the IMDb movie database about both movies and people.
> It can be very easily used by programmers and developers to provide
> access to the IMDb's data to their programs, both by fetching data from
> the IMDB website and by building a local SQL database using the datasets
> provided for download by IMDb.
> -----------
> 
> and installing s32imdbpy.py to /usr/bin (IMHO it's a little more than a mere
> example).

This sounds good to me.

> It doesn't seem adequate to depend on all the Python modules needed
> to create a local DB, but if you're interested I'd be happy to write up
> something like README.Debian.local-DB which describes the steps/dependencies
> for a local DB installation.

I'm pretty OK with all this, but it's not something I'll add in the top
of my TODO list.
I have given you commit rights to https://salsa.debian.org/ana/imdbpy/
so feel free to commit directly there or send a patch, as you prefer!

Cheers,

Ana

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