imdbpie 5.7.1

5.7.1 (2026-07-06)

• Handle IMDb have both 7 and 8 digit titles

5.7.0 (2026-04-05)

• Added Python 3.14 support

• Added support for the new AWS library to handle the authentication

• Removed unsupported methods that got blocked by the Web Application Firewall (WAF) of the API.

• Updated dependencies to latest

5.6.5 (2023-04-18)

• Packaging fixes.

5.6.4 (2023-04-18)

• Fix for JSON parsing from the API.

• Fix for title_exists method raising 403 error.

5.6.3 (2018-10-13)

• Bugfix for handing of national characters within search methods.

5.6.2 (2018-07-09)

• Bugfix for issue in ImdbFacade.get_title where TypeError would raise if the Title did not have any genres.

5.6.1 (2018-06-17)

• Bugfix for issue in ImdbFacade.get_title where with titles which no do yet have credits information would cause KeyError to raise.

5.6.0 (2018-06-09)

• Adds runtime attribute to ImdbFacade.

5.5.0 (2018-05-27)

• Adds get_title_auxiliary method to client.

• Adds ImdbFacade facade for API.

5.4.5 (2018-04-29)

• Packaging documentation updates.

5.4.4 (2018-04-17)

• Python 2.x setup.py bugfix.

• Bugfix for title_exists method returning None.

• Bugfix for get_title raising an incorrect exception when redirection title.

5.4.3 (2018-04-05)

• Updates license.

5.4.2 (2018-04-05)

• Fixes missing setuptools dependency for pypi display of markdown formatted files.

5.4.1 (2018-04-05)

• Packaging documentation fixes.

5.4.0 (2018-03-18)

• Bugfix for incorrect AttributeError message showing when undefined attrs called on client class.

• Adds get_title_top_crew method.

5.3.0 (2018-02-27)

• Adds get_title_plot_taglines method.

• Adds get_title_news method.

• Adds get_title_trivia method.

• Adds get_title_soundtracks method.

• Adds get_title_goofs method.

• Adds get_title_technical method.

• Adds get_title_companies method.

• Adds get_title_episodes_detailed method.

5.2.0 (2018-01-11)

• Updates get_title to call “/auxiliary” as “/fulldetails” endpoint now returns an error.

• Adds get_title_quotes method.

• Adds get_title_ratings method.

• Adds get_title_connections method.

• Adds get_title_awards method.

• Adds get_title_plot_synopsis method.

• Adds get_title_versions method.

• Adds get_title_releases method.

• Adds get_title_similarities method.

• Adds get_title_videos method.

• Adds get_name_videos method.

• Adds get_name_filmography method.

• Adds response status code to ImdbAPIError exception message.

5.1.0 (2018-01-10)

• Adds get_title_genres method.

5.0.0 (2018-01-10)

• Fixes client to work with new API.

• Renames most of methods on Imdb class.

• Changes all methods on Imdb to return raw JSON resource dictionary rather than Python objects.

• Removes params from Imdb __init__ method (user_agent, proxy_uri, verify_ssl, api_key, cache, anonymize).

• Adds clear_cached_credentials method to Imdb class.

4.4.2 (2018-01-03)

• Fixes bug when searching with non alphanumeric characters, second attempt.

4.4.1 (2017-12-27)

• Fixes bug when searching with non alphanumeric characters.

4.4.0 (2017-12-24)

• Fixes search_for_person and search_for_title methods, which were broken because XML api used by the client was removed, migrated to using search suggestions api used by the website itself.

• Adds optional session param to client init method, used to specify requests.Session.

• All client methods will raise ValueError if invalid imdb_id param given.

4.3.0 (2017-08-10)

Added

• Added Imdb.popular_movies to retrieve current popular movies.

4.2.0 (2016-09-29)

Added

• Person.photo_url has been added. It returns a string (url) or None.

4.1.0 (2016-07-26)

• Changed Title and other objects to use less memory.

• Added notice of deprecation of caching in version 5.0.0.

• Added Imdb.get_episodes to retrieve Title Episode information.

4.0.2 (2015-08-08)

Added - Added cache_expiry parameter to Imdb class, to specify cache expiry in seconds.

Changes

• Internal caching changed you use 3rd party package cachecontrol.

Removed

• Imdb class no longer takes a cache_dir parameter.

3.0.0 (2015-06-12)

Changed

• All methods on Imdb will raise imdbpie.exceptions.HTTPError if a bad request to the API or resource is not found (“Errors should never pass silently”).

• Imdb.get_title_reviews now has param max_results to limit number of reviews returned.

2.1.0 (2015-05-03)

Added - Added verify_ssl kwarg option to Imdb object. Allows for controlling of ssl cert verification on all requests made.

2.0.1 (2015-03-30)

Added

• Title.plot_outline has been added. It returns a string.

2.0.0 (2015-03-12)

Added

• Imdb.search_for_person has been added. It returns a list of dicts.

• Imdb.get_title_plots has been added. It returns a list of strings.

• Title.trailer_image_urls returns a list of trailer urls (string).

• Imdb.get_person_by_id has been added. It returns a Person object.

Changed

• Title.plots returns a list of full plots.

• Title.trailers returns a list of dicts (keys: “url”, “format”).

• Title.runtime returns runtime in seconds now instead of hours.

• Person.role is now Person.roles and returns a list rather than a string.

• Imdb.person_images has been renamed to Imdb.get_person_images.

• Imdb.title_reviews has been renamed to Imdb.get_title_reviews and parameter limit has also been removed.

• Imdb.title_images has been renamed to Imdb.get_title_images.

• Imdb.find_by_title has been renamed to Imdb.search_for_title.

• Imdb.find_movie_by_id has been renamed to Imdb.get_title_by_id and parameter json has been removed.

• Imdb.movie_exists has been renamed to Imdb.title_exists.

Removed

• Imdb.validate_id has been removed.

• Title.plot_outline has been removed.

• Title.trailer_img_url has been removed.

1.5.6 (2014-12-07)

• No notes, release made before changelog inception.