An API for media database APIs which allows you to search for metadata using a simple, common interface
Project description
mapi
mapi (Metadata API) is a python library which provides a high-level interface for media database providers, allowing users to efficiently search for television and movie metadata using a simple interface.
Installation
$ pip install mapi
Examples
Searching for a television show by series using TVDb
Here is a fairly straight forward example, say we just want to get a listing of episodes from Rick and Morty season 2:
>>> from mapi.providers import TVDb >>> client = TVDb() # API Key taken from environment variables >>> results = client.search(series='Rick and Morty', season=2) >>> for result in results: >>> print(result) Rick and Morty - 02x01 - A Rickle in Time Rick and Morty - 02x02 - Mortynight Run Rick and Morty - 02x03 - Auto Erotic Assimilation Rick and Morty - 02x04 - Total Rickall Rick and Morty - 02x05 - Get Schwifty Rick and Morty - 02x06 - The Ricks Must Be Crazy Rick and Morty - 02x07 - Big Trouble in Little Sanchez Rick and Morty - 02x08 - Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate Rick and Morty - 02x09 - Look Who's Purging Now Rick and Morty - 02x10 - The Wedding Squanchers
Mapi searches yield Metadata objects, which themselves are just MutableMappings which can be treated like regular old Python dictionaries. That being said, they overwrite __str__ so that they get prettily printed as seen above. This can easily be overridden, however. Say we would rather use a SxxExx format:
>>> from mapi.providers import TVDb >>> client = TVDb() # API Key taken from environment variables >>> result = client.search(series='Adventure Time', season=5, episode=3) >>> print(next(result).format('<$series - >< - S$season><E$episode - >< - $title>')) Adventure Time - S05E03 - Five More Short Graybles
You can read more about the format method in the source documentation.
Searching for a movie by title and year using IMDb
Okay, so no we want to look up some movies. We can search for using a specific year, by an upper range using ‘-year’, by a lower range using ‘year-’, or between a range of years using ‘year-year’. Lets use the latter to get a listing of Star Trek movies from the 90s. As it turns out, there’s a lot.
>>> from mapi.providers import IMDb >>> client = IMDb() >>> results = client.search(title='Star Trek', year='1990-1999') >>> for i, result in enumerate(results, 1): >>> print('%d) %s' % (i, result)) >>> if i > 9: break 1) Star Trek: Voyager (1995) 2) Star Trek: First Contact (1996) 3) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) 4) Star Trek: Generations (1994) 5) Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) 6) Star Trek: The Experience - The Klingon Encounter (1998) 7) Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek - The Next Generation (1994) 8) Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond (1996) 9) Ultimate Trek: Star Trek's Greatest Moments (1999) 10) Star Trek: A Captain's Log (1994)
Searches return a generator, so by breaking on 10, we only ask for what we need, reducing the bandwidth and time required for the request.
Looking up by ID
If you just want to lookup metadata using an API Provider’s ID code, you can do that too:
>>> from pprint import pprint >>> from mapi.providers import TMDb >>> client = TMDb() >>> results = client.search(id_tmdb=9340) # Using TMDb ID >>> pprint(dict(next(results))) {'date': '1985-06-06', 'id_tmdb': '9340', 'media': 'movie', 'synopsis': 'A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in ' "his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, " 'Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth ' 'Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of ' 'Pirate One-Eyed Willie.', 'title': 'The Goonies'}
Some APIs, like TMDb, allow you to search by an IMDb ‘tt-const’ as well:
>>> results = client.search(id_imdb='tt0089218') # Using IMDb ID >>> pprint(dict(next(results))) {'date': '1985-06-06', 'id_tmdb': 9340, 'media': 'movie', 'synopsis': 'A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in ' "his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, " 'Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth ' 'Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of ' 'Pirate One-Eyed Willie.', 'title': 'The Goonies'}
Handling a search gone awry
Not all searches yield results; maybe you had a typo, maybe the data just isn’t there, either way theres no need to fret, this can be handled gracefully using exception handling:
>>> from mapi.providers import TMDb >>> client = TMDb() >>> try: >>> print(next(client.search(id_imdb='invalid_id'))) >>> except MapiNotFoundException: >>> print('Nothing found :(') None found :(
Usage Details
Provider Configuration
TVDb and TMDb require an API key to successfully be initialized
These can be provided using environment variables; API_KEY_TMDB and API_KEY_TVDB, respectively
These can also be provided as api_key, a parameter to the provider classes.
Searching
The following table describes the permissible fields which may be used for a given search query. Extra fields are simply ignored.
Field |
API |
Type |
Description |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
id_imdb |
IMDb, TMDb, TVDb |
str |
IMDb movie id key |
|
id_tmdb |
TMDb |
str / int |
TMDb movie id key |
|
id_tvdb |
TVDb series id key |
str / int |
TVDb season id key |
|
title |
IMDb, TMDb |
str |
Feature’s title |
|
year |
IMDb, TMDb |
str / int |
Feature’s release year |
|
series |
TVDb |
str |
Series’ name |
|
season |
TVDb |
str / int |
Series’ airing season |
|
episode |
TVDb |
str / int |
Series’ airing episode |
Results
Each provider is guaranteed to return the following fields for a successful search as strings. Notice that they are largely the fields as the search parameters– in fact, you can even next search calls within each other if you so desire.
Field |
API |
Description |
---|---|---|
id_imdb |
IMDb |
IMDb movie id key |
id_tmdb |
TMDb |
TMDb movie id key |
id_tvdb |
TVDb |
TVDb season id key |
title |
IMDb, TMDb |
Feature’s title |
date |
ALL |
Media’s release date (YYYY-MM-DD) |
synopsis |
ALL |
Media synopsis |
media |
ALL |
Media type; either ‘movie’ or ‘television’ |
series |
TVDb |
Series’ name |
season |
TVDb |
Series’ airing season |
episode |
TVDb |
Series’ airing episode |
License
MIT. See license.txt for details.
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