On May 04, Roman Gaufman <hacke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there no way to get a list of just actors mentioned on the main
> page for the movie?
If you're fetching the data from the web, you can use other
data access systems (beyond the default "http" - which uses the
"combined" page as its main source of information) to fetch
less data: both "mobile" and "httpThin" uses the "maindetails"
page.
"httpThin" uses the same parser of "http" (it just fetches the
main details page) while "mobile" is a different parser, tailored
for systems with little CPU/bandwidth resources.
E.g.:
from imdb import IMDb
ia = IMDb('httpThin') # or "mobile"
movie = ia.search_movie('12 Angry Men')[0] # gets the first result.
ia.update(movie) # updates the information.
print len(movie['cast']) # will print 12, and not 16 as "http".
It goes without saying that some information present in "combined"
are not present in "maindetails", so it's up to you to decide if
you need them or not.
HTH,
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