This is great, thanks for your help!
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:14 AM, Davide Alberani
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Nov 09, Andrew Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for IMDbPy, it is very useful.
>
> Hello, and thank you!
>
> > How do you get the picture of a movie's cover, or a thumbnail of the
> > movie's cover?
>
> If present, the url is accessible through movie['cover url'].
> Beware that it could be missing, so you must first test it with
> something like:
> if 'cover url' in movie:
> ...
>
> After that, you can use the urllib module to fetch the image itself.
>
> To provide a complete example, something like that should do the trick:
> import urllib
> from imdb import IMDb
>
> ia = IMDb(#yourParameters)
> movie = ia.get_movie(#theMovieID)
>
> if 'cover url' in movie:
> urlObj = urllib.urlopen(movie['cover url'])
> imageData = urlObj.read()
> urlObj.close()
> # now you can save imageData in a file (open it in binary mode).
>
> In the same way, a person's headshot is stored in person['headshot'].
>
> Things to be aware of:
> - covers and headshots are available only fetching the data from the
> web server (via the 'http' or 'mobile' data access systems), and not
> in the plain text data files ('sql' or 'local').
> - using the images, you must respect the terms of the IMDb's policy;
> see http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/docs/DISCLAIMER.txt
> - the images you'll get will vary in size; you can use the python-imaging
> module to rescale them, if needed.
>
> --
> Davide Alberani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [PGP KeyID: 0x465BFD47]
> http://erlug.linux.it/~da/ <http://erlug.linux.it/%7Eda/>
>
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