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* What's new in the next release
[http]
- #358: access the "actress" key with "actor"
- #390: fix i18n titles now being written between parenthesis (courtesy of Raphaël Droz)
- #467: fix movies trivia parser (courtesy of Anthony Lipphardt)
- #470: add parser for movie stars (courtesy of Jesús Cea)
- #472: fix for metascore on critic reviews (courtesy of theotherp)
- #350: avoid empty names in XML output (courtesy of reubot)
- #478: fix top/bottom chart parsers
* What's new in release 2023.05.01 (1922)
[http]
- #424: parse the "fullcredits" page for persons (courtesy of DLu)
- #443: fix parser for plot summary (courtesy of Saleh Dehqanpour)
- #448: always transform ratings to float
- various other parsers fixed
* What's new in release 2022.12.27 (Turist)
[http]
- #419: more fixes for movie searches
- #426: support 308 Permanent Redirect HTTP code
- better handling of locales
- fixes for python2.7
* What's new in release 2022.12.04 (John Wick)
[http]
- #232: add get_showtimes() method (courtesy of Kostya Farber)
- #388: add 'videos' key to extract movie trailer links
- #391: add parental guide advisory votes (courtesy of salehdeh76)
- #395: fix for some wrongly-formatted titles (courtesy of tsaklidis)
- #396: raise exception on resize image (courtesy of tsaklidis)
- #398: fix for production status
- #415: change User-Agent to a more complete form
- #419: fix movie and person searches
- #420: introduce a contributor guide (courtesy of Elizabeth Thorne)
- #421: fixes for person parsers
* What's new in release 2022.02.11 (the Cinemagoer Strikes Back release)
[http]
- #373: include TV shows in get top 50 by genre
- #378: update documentation
[s3]
- #378: rename s32imdbpy.py to s32cinemagoer.py
* What's new in release 2022.01.25 (the Cinemagoer release)
[general]
- #238: by default, exceptions are raised
- #315: include all script in the ./bin directory
- #318: fix kind of tv mini series in search results
- #369: do not rebuild locales running setup.py clean
- #371: support for 8-digit imdbIDs
- #378: renamed to cinemagoer
[http]
- #308: fix movie connections parser
- #319: parse review rating
- #327: do not strip new lines
- #329: improve localized and original title
- #330: fix for tv series for seasons not found
- #331: fix kind of tv mini series in search results
- #342: parse all information from full credits
- #343: fix for mpaa and certificates from parental guide page
- #344: extract advisories from parental guide page
- #346: collect raw info from country code
- #348: fix for series with no episodes
- #349: relevant keywords
- #357: add support for TV Special
- #366: fix full-size image links
- #372: support fox box office charts
* What's new in release 2021.04.18 (Black Sails)
[general]
- #289: Serbian translations
- #290: update Portuguese translations
- #291: allow direct access to filmography keys
- #299: add pagination to get_movie_list (courtesy of Stein van Broekhoven)
- #300: any iterable can be used as season_nums parameter of update_series_seasons
- #305: fix ability to set logging level
- #310: fix build of locales .mo files
- #312: extract localized title
[sql]
- #287: fix missing logger
* What's new in release 2020.09.25 (The Umbrella Academy)
[general]
- #112: switch to a calendar versioning scheme
- #242: introduce the "imdbID" key with the actual imdbID for movies and persons
- #247: use html escape
- #257: fix exception formatting string (courtesy of miigotu)
- #262: remove obsolete Feature key from setup.py
- #265: imdb.helpers.resizeImage function to manipulate image URLs
- #267: update regex to support imdbIndex without a year
- #275: update che path for Creator
- #284: use derived loggers (courtesy of jsynowiec)
- #282: use correct escape sequence for regular expressions (courtesy of Karthikeyan Singaravelan)
[http]
- #134: fix movie awards parser
- #228: fix goofs parser
- #229: introduce the "original title" key
- #230: get_keyword method is now paginated
- #234: parse person awards (thanks to Volkan Yalcin)
- #237: fix quotes parser
- #241: introduce recommendations parser
- #244: fix parser for persons filmography
- #245: ability to fetch information about a single season
- #260: parsers for top rated tv show, top rated indian movies, most popular tv shows and movies
- #273: ability to parse movie lists (courtesy of Stein van Broekhoven)
[sql]
- #270: introduce a progress bar importing s3 dataset (courtesy of Sam Grayson)
- #278: fix access to s3 tables
* What's new in release 6.8 "Apollo 11" (20 Jul 2019)
[http]
- #224: introduce the search_movie_advanced(title, adult=None, results=None, sort=None, sort_dir=None) method
- #145: names are stored in normal format (Name Surname)
- #225: remove obsolete cookie
- #182: box office information
- #168: parse series and episode number searching for movies
- #217: grab poster from search
- #218: extract MPAA rating
- #220: extract actor headshot from full credits
* What's new in release 6.7 "Game of Thrones" (19 May 2019)
[general]
- #180: include tests in source package
- #188: avoid missing keys in search results
[http]
- #144: fix parser for currentRole and notes
- #189: use HTTPS insted of HTTP
- #192: fix list of AKAs and release dates
- #200: fix keywords parser
- #201: fix encoding doing searches
- #210: fix TV series episode rating and votes
[sql]
- #176: correctly handle multiple characters
[s3]
- #163 and #193: fix import in MySQL
- #193: handle the new format of title.principals.tsv.gz
- #195: show progress, importing data (with --verbose)
* What's new in release 6.6 "Stranger Things" (05 Aug 2018)
[general]
- #154: exclude docs and etc directories from packaging
- introduce 'https' as an alias for 'http'
- #151: the 'in' operator also considers key names
- #172: fix for ASCII keys in XML output
- #174: improve XML output
- #179: introduce Travis CI at https://travis-ci.org/alberanid/imdbpy
[http]
- #149: store person birth and death dates in ISO8601 format
- #166: fix birth and death dates without itemprop attributes
- #160: fix series seasons list
- #155 and #165: ignore certificate to prevent validation errors
- #156: fix tech parser
- #157: full-size headshot for persons
- #161: fix string/unicode conversion in Python 2.7
- #173: raw akas and raw release dates fields
- #178: fix mini biography parser
[s3]
- #158: fetch and search AKAs
- update the goodies/download-from-s3 script to use the datasets.imdbws.com site
* What's new in release 6.5 "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead" (15 Apr 2018)
[general]
- converted the documentation to Sphinx rst format
[http]
- fix title parser for in-production movies
- parsers are based on piculet
- improve collection of full-size cover images
* What's new in release 6.4 "Electric Dreams" (14 Mar 2018)
[http]
- remove obsolete parsers
- remove Character objects
- fix for search parsers
* What's new in release 6.3 "Altered Carbon" (27 Feb 2018)
[general]
- documentation updates
- introduced the 'imdbpy' CLI
- s3 accessSystem to access the new dataset from IMDb
[http]
- fixes for IMDb site redesign
- Person parser fixes
- users review parser
- improve external sites parser
- switch from akas.imdb.com domain to www.imdb.com
- fix for synopsis
- fix for tv series episodes
[s3]
- ability to import and access all the information
* What's new in release 6.2 "Justice League" (19 Nov 2017)
[general]
- introduce check for Python version
- SQLAlchemy can be disabled using --without-sqlalchemy
- fix #88: configuration file parser
- update documentation
[http]
- fixed ratings parser
- moved cookies from json to Python source
* What's new in release 6.1
- skipped version 6.1 due to a wrong release on pypi
* What's new in release 6.0 "Life is Strange" (12 Nov 2017)
[general]
- now IMDbPY is a Python 3 package
- simplified the code base: #61
- remove dependencies: SQLObject, BeautifulSoup, C compiler
- introduced a tox testsuite
- fix various parsers
* What's new in release 5.1 "Westworld" (13 Nov 2016)
[general]
- fix for company names containing square brackets.
- fix XML output when imdb long name is missing.
- fixes #33: unable to use --without-sql
[http]
- fix birth/death dates parsing.
- fix top/bottom lists.
- Persons's resume page parser (courtesy of codynhat)
- fixes #29: split color info
- parser for "my rating" (you have to use your own cookies)
[sql]
- sound track list correctly identified.
- fixes #50: process splitted data in order
- fixes #53: parser for movie-links
* What's new in release 5.0 "House of Cards" (02 May 2014)
[general]
- Spanish, French, Arabic, Bulgarian and German translations.
- Introduced the list of French articles.
- fix for GAE.
- download_applydiffs.py script.
- fixed wrong handling of encoding in episode titles
- renamed README.utf8 to README.unicode
[http]
- fixed searches (again).
- search results are always in English.
- updated the cookies.
- support for obtaining metacritic score and URL.
- fixed goofs parser.
- fixed url for top250.
- fixes for biography page.
- fix for quotes.
- better charset identification.
- category and spoiler status for goofs.
- changed query separators from ; to &.
- fix for episodes of unknown seasons.
- new cookie.
[mobile]
- fixed searches.
[sql]
- fix for MSSQL
* What's new in release 4.9 "Iron Sky" (15 Jun 2012)
[general]
- urls used to access the IMDb site can be configured.
- helpers function to handle movie AKAs in various
languages (code by Alberto Malagoli).
- renamed the 'articles' module into 'linguistics'.
- introduced the 'reraiseExceptions' option, to re-raise
evey caught exception.
[http]
- fix for changed search parameters.
- introduced a 'timeout' parameter for connections to the web server.
- fix for business information.
- parser for the new style of episodes list.
- unicode searches handled as iso8859-1.
- fix for garbage in AKA titles.
[sql]
- vastly improved the store/restore of imdbIDs; now it should be faster
and more accurate.
- now the 'name' table contains a 'gender' field that can be 'm', 'f' or NULL.
- fix for nicknames.
- fix for missing titles in the crazy credits file.
- handled exceptions creating indexes, foreign keys and
executing custom queries.
- fixed creation on index for keywords.
- excluded {{SUSPENDED}} titles.
* What's new in release 4.8.2 "The Big Bang Theory" (02 Nov 2011)
[general]
- fixed install path of locales.
[http]
- removed debug code.
* What's new in release 4.8 "Super" (01 Nov 2011)
[general]
- fix for a problem managing exceptions with Python 2.4.
- converted old-style exceptions to instances.
- enanchements for the reduce.sh script.
- added notes about problems connecting to IMDb's web servers.
- improvements in the parsers of movie titles.
- improvements in the parser of person names.
[http]
- potential fix for GAE environment.
- handled the new style of "in production" information.
- fix for 'episodes' list.
- fix for 'episodes rating'.
- fix for queries that returned too many results.
- fix for wrong/missing references.
- removed no more available information set "amazon
reviews" and "dvd".
- fix for cast of tv series.
- fix for title of tv series.
- now the beautiful parses work again.
[httpThin]
- removed "httpThin", falling back to "http".
[mobile]
- fix for missing headshots.
- fix for rating and number of votes.
- fix for missing genres.
- many other fixes to keep up-to-date with the IMDb site.
[sql]
- fix for a nasty bug parsing notes about character names.
- fixes for SQLite with SQLOjbect.
* What's new in release 4.7 "Saw VI" (23 Jan 2011)
[http]
- first fixes for the new set of parsers.
- first changes to support the new set of web pages.
- fix for lists of uncategorized episodes.
- fix for movies with multiple countries.
- fix for the currentRole property.
- more robust handling for vote details.
[mobile]
- first fixes for the new set of parsers.
[sql]
- the tables containing titles and names (and akas) now
include a 'md5sum' column calculated on the "long imdb canonical title/name".
* What's new in release 4.6 "The Road" (19 Jun 2010)
[general]
- introduced the 'full-size cover url' and 'full-size headshot'
keys for Movie, Person and Character instances.
- moved the development to a Mercurial repository.
- introduced the parseXML function in the imdb.helpers module.
- now the asXML method can exclude dynamically generated keys.
- rationalized the use of the 'logging' and 'warnings' modules.
- the 'update' method no longer raises an exception, if asked for
an unknown info set.
[http/mobile]
- removed new garbage from the imdb pages.
- support new style of akas.
- fix for the "trivia" page.
- fixes for searches with too many results.
[sql]
- fixes for garbage in the plain text data files.
- support for SQLite shipped with Python 2.6.
* What's new in release 4.5.1 "Dollhouse" (01 Mar 2010)
[general]
- reintroduced the ez_setup.py file.
- fixes for AKAs on 'release dates'.
- added the dtd.
* What's new in release 4.5 "Invictus" (28 Feb 2010)
[general]
- moved to setuptools 0.6c11.
- trying to make the SVN release versions work fine.
- http/mobile should work in GAE (Google App Engine).
- added some goodies scripts, useful for programmers (see the
docs/goodies directory).
[http/mobile]
- removed urllib-based User-Agent header.
- fixes for some minor changes to IMDb's html.
- fixes for garbage in movie quotes.
- improvements in the handling of AKAs.
[mobile]
- fixes for AKAs in search results.
[sql]
- fixes for bugs restoring imdbIDs.
- first steps to split CSV creation/insertion.
* What's new in release 4.4 "Gandhi" (06 Jan 2010)
[general]
- introduced a logging facility; see README.logging.
- the 'http' and 'mobile' should be a lot more robust.
[http]
- fixes for the n-th set of changes to IMDb's HTML.
- improvements to perfect-match searches.
- slightly simplified the parsers for search results.
[mobile]
- fixes for the n-th set of changes to IMDb's HTML.
- slightly simplified the parsers for search results.
[sql]
- movies' keywords are now correctly imported, using CSV files.
- minor fixes to handle crap in the plain text data files.
- removed an outdate parameter passed to SQLObject.
- made imdbpy2sql.py more robust in some corner-cases.
- fixes for the Windows environment.
* What's new in release 4.3 "Public Enemies" (18 Nov 2009)
[general]
- the installer now takes care of .mo files.
- introduced, in the helpers module, the functions keyToXML and
translateKey, useful to translate dictionary keys.
- support for smart guessing of the language of a movie title.
- updated the DTD.
[http]
- fixed a lot of bugs introduced by the new IMDb.com design.
- nicer handling of HTTP 404 response code.
- fixed parsers for top250 and bottom100 lists.
- fixed a bug parsing AKAs.
- fixed misc bugs.
[mobile]
- removed duplicates in list of genres.
[sql]
- fixed a bug in the imdbpy2sql.py script using CSV files;
the 'movie_info_idx' and 'movie_keyword' were left
empty/with wrong data.
* What's new in release 4.2 "Battlestar Galactica" (31 Aug 2009)
[general]
- the 'local' data access system is gone. See README.local.
- the imdb.parser.common package was removed, and its code integrated
in imdb.parser.sql and in the imdbpy2sql.py script.
- fixes for the installer.
- the helpers module contains the fullSizeCoverURL function, to convert
a Movie, Person or Character instance (or a URL in a string)
in an URL to the full-size version of its cover/headshot.
Courtesy of Basil Shubin.
- used a newer version of msgfmt.py, to work around a hideous bug
generating locales.
- minor updates to locales.
- updated the DTD to version 4.2.
[http]
- removed garbage at the end of quotes.
- fixed problems parsing company names and notes.
- keys in character's quotes dictionary are now Movie instances.
- fixed a bug converting entities char references (affected BeautifulSoup).
- fixed a long-standing bug handling & with BeautifulSoup.
- top250 is now correctly parsed by BeautifulSoup.
[sql]
- fixed DB2 call for loading blobs/cblobs.
- information from obsolete files are now used if and only if they
refer to still existing titles.
- the --fix-old-style-titles argument is now obsolete.
* What's new in release 4.1 "State Of Play" (02 May 2009)
[general]
- DTD definition.
- support for locale.
- support for the new style for movie titles ("The Title" and no
more "Title, The" is internally used).
- minor fix to XML code to work with the test-suite.
[http]
- char references in the &#xHEXCODE; format are handled.
- fixed a bug with movies containing '....' in titles. And I'm
talking about Malcolm McDowell's filmography!
- 'airing' contains object (so the accessSystem variable is set).
- 'tv schedule' ('airing') pages of episodes can be parsed.
- 'tv schedule' is now a valid alias for 'airing'.
- minor fixes for empty/wrong strings.
[sql]
- in the database, soundex values for titles are always calculated
after the article is stripped (if any).
- imdbpy2sql.py has the --fix-old-style-titles option, to handle
files in the old format.
- fixed a bug saving imdbIDs.
[local]
- the 'local' data access system should be considered obsolete, and
will probably be removed in the next release.
* What's new in release 4.0 "Watchmen" (12 Mar 2009)
[general]
- the installer is now based on setuptools.
- new functions get_keyword and search_keyword to handle movie's keywords
(example scripts included).
- Movie/Person/... keys (and whole instances) can be converted to XML.
- two new functions, get_top250_movies and get_bottom100_movies, to
retrieve lists of best/worst movies (example scripts included).
- searching for movies and persons - if present - the 'akas' keyword
is filled, in the results.
- 'quotes' for movies is now always a list of lists.
- the old set of parsers (based on sgmllib.SGMLParser) are gone.
- fixed limitations handling multiple roles (with notes).
- fixed a bug converting somethingIDs to real imdbIDs.
- fixed some summary methods.
- updates to the documentation.
[http]
- adapted BeautifulSoup to lxml (internally, the lxml API is used).
- currentRole is no longer populated, for non-cast entries (everything
ends up into .notes).
- fixed a bug search for too common terms.
- fixed a bug identifying 'kind', searching for titles.
- fixed a bug parsing airing dates.
- fixed a bug searching for company names (when there's a direct hit).
- fixed a bug handling multiple characters.
- fixed a bug parsing episode ratings.
- nicer keys for technical details.
- removed the 'agent' page.
[sql]
- searching for a movie, the original titles are returned, instead
of AKAs.
- support for Foreign Keys.
- minor changes to the db's design.
- fixed a bug populating tables with SQLAlchemy.
- imdbpy2sql.py shows user time and system time, along with wall time.
[local]
- searching for a movie, the original titles are returned, instead
of AKAs.
* What's new in release 3.9 "The Strangers" (06 Jan 2009)
[general]
- introduced the search_episode method, to search for episodes' titles.
- movie['year'] is now an integer, and no more a string.
- fixed a bug parsing company names.
- introduced the helpers.makeTextNotes function, useful to pretty-print
strings in the 'TEXT::NOTE' format.
[http]
- fixed a bug regarding movies listed in the Bottom 100.
- fixed bugs about tv mini-series.
- fixed a bug about 'series cast' using BeautifulSoup.
[sql]
- fixes for DB2 (with SQLAlchemy).
- improved support for movies' aka titles (for series).
- made imdbpy2sql.py more robust, catching exceptions even when huge
amounts of data are skipped due to errors.
- introduced CSV support in the imdbpy2sql.py script.
* What's new in release 3.8 "Quattro Carogne a Malopasso" (03 Nov 2008)
[http]
- fixed search system for direct hits.
- fixed IDs so that they always are str and not unicode.
- fixed a bug about plot without authors.
- for pages about a single episode of a series, "Series Crew" are
now separated items.
- introduced the preprocess_dom method of the DOMParserBase class.
- handling rowspan for DOMHTMLAwardsParser is no more a special case.
- first changes to remove old parsers.
[sql]
- introduced support for SQLAlchemy.
[mobile]
- fixed multiple 'nick names'.
- added 'aspect ratio'.
- fixed a "direct hit" bug searching for people.
[global]
- fixed search_* example scripts.
- updated the documentation.
* What's new in release 3.7 "Burn After Reading" (22 Sep 2008)
[http]
- introduced a new set of parsers, active by default, based on DOM/XPath.
- old parsers fixed; 'news', 'genres', 'keywords', 'ratings', 'votes',
'tech', 'taglines' and 'episodes'.
[sql]
- the pure python soundex function now behaves correctly.
[general]
- minor updates to the documentation, with an introduction to the
new set of parsers and notes for packagers.
* What's new in release 3.6 "RahXephon" (08 Jun 2008)
[general]
- support for company objects for every data access systems.
- introduced example scripts for companies.
- updated the documentation.
[http and mobile]
- changes to support the new HTML for "plot outline" and some lists
of values (languages, genres, ...)
- introduced the set_cookies method to set cookies for IMDb's account and
the del_cookies method to remove the use of cookies; in the imdbpy.cfg
configuration file, options "cookie_id" and "cookie_uu" can be set to
the appropriate values; if "cookie_id" is None, no cookies are sent.
- fixed parser for 'news' pages.
- fixed minor bug fetching movie/person/character references.
[http]
- fixed a search problem, while not using the IMDbPYweb's account.
- fixed bugs searching for characters.
[mobile]
- fixed minor bugs parsing search results.
[sql]
- fixed a bug handling movieIDs, when there are some
inconsistencies in the plain text data files.
[local]
- access to 'mpaa' and 'miscellaneous companies' information.
* What's new in release 3.5 "Blade Runner" (19 Apr 2008)
[general]
- first changes to work on Symbian mobile phones.
- now there is an imdb.available_access_systems() function, that can
be used to get a list of available data access systems.
- it's possible to pass 'results' as a parameter of the imdb.IMDb
function; it sets the number of results to return for queries.
- fixed summary() method in Movie and Person, to correctly handle
unicode chars.
- the helpers.makeObject2Txt function now supports recursion over
dictionaries.
- cutils.c MXLINELEN increased from 512 to 1024; some critical
strcpy replaced with strncpy.
- fixed configuration parser to be compatible with Python 2.2.
- updated list of articles and some stats in the comments.
- documentation updated.
[sql]
- fixed minor bugs in imdbpy2sql.py.
- restores imdbIDs for characters.
- now CharactersCache honors custom queries.
- the imdbpy2sql.py's --mysql-force-myisam command line option can be
used to force usage of MyISAM tables on InnoDB databases.
- added some warnings to the imdbpy2sql.py script.
[local]
- fixed a bug in the fall-back function used to scan movie titles,
when the cutils module is not available.
- mini biographies are cut up to 2**16-1 chars, to prevent troubles
with some MySQL servers.
- fixed bug in characters4local.py, dealing with some garbage in the files.
* What's new in release 3.4 "Flatliners" (16 Dec 2007)
[general]
- *** NOTE FOR PACKAGERS *** in the docs directory there is the
"imdbpy.cfg" configuration file, which should be installed in /etc
or equivalent directory; the setup.py script *doesn't* manage its
installation.
- introduced a global configuration file to set IMDbPY's parameters.
- supported characters using "sql" and "local" data access systems.
- fixed a bug retrieving characterID from a character's name.
[http]
- fixed a bug in "release dates" parser.
- fixed bugs in "episodes" parser.
- fixed bugs reading "series years".
- stricter definition for ParserBase._re_imdbIDmatch regular expression.
[mobile]
- fixed bugs reading "series years".
- fixed bugs reading characters' filmography.
[sql]
- support for characters.
[local]
- support for characters.
- introduced the characters4local.py script.
* What's new in release 3.3 "Heroes" (18 Nov 2007)
[general]
- first support for character pages; only for "http" and "mobile", so far.
- support for multiple characters.
- introduced an helper function to pretty-print objects.
- added README.currentRole.
- fixed minor bug in the __hash__ method of the _Container class.
- fixed changes to some key names for movies.
- introduced the search_character.py, get_character.py and
get_first_character.py example scripts.
[http]
- full support for character pages.
- fixed a bug retrieving some 'cover url'.
- fixed a bug with multi-paragraphs biographies.
- parsers are now instanced on demand.
- accessSystem and modFunct are correctly set for every Movie, Person
and Character object instanced.
[mobile]
- full support for character pages.
[sql]
- extended functionality of the custom queries support for the
imdbpy2sql.py script to circumvent a problem with MS SQLServer.
- introducted the "--mysql-innodb" and "--ms-sqlserver" shortcuts
for the imdbpy2sql.py script.
- introduced the "--sqlite-transactions" shortcut to activate
transaction using SQLite which, otherwise, would have horrible
performances.
- fixed a minor bug with top/bottom ratings, in the imdbpy2sql.py script.
[local]
- filtered out some crap in the "quotes" plain text data files, which
also affected sql, importing the data.
* What's new in release 3.2 "Videodrome" (25 Sep 2007)
[global]
- now there's an unique place where "akas.imdb.com" is set, in the
main module.
- introduced __version__ and VERSION in the main module.
- minor improvements to the documentation.
[http]
- updated the main movie parser to retrieve the recently modified
cast section.
- updated the crazy credits parser.
- fixed a bug retrieving 'cover url'.
[mobile]
- fixed a bug parsing people's filmography when only one duty
was listed.
- updated to retrieve series' creator.
[sql]
- added the ability to perform custom SQL queries at the command
line of the imdbpy2sql.py script.
- minor fixes for the imdbpy2sql.py script.
* What's new in release 3.1 "The Snake King" (18 Jul 2007)
[global]
- the IMDbPYweb account now returns a single item, when a search
returns only one "good enough" match (this is the IMDb's default).
- updated the documentation.
- updated list of contributors and developers.
[http]
- supported the new result page for searches.
- supported the 'synopsis' page.
- supported the 'parents guide' page.
- fixed a bug retrieving notes about a movie's connections.
- fixed a bug for python2.2 (s60 mobile phones).
- fixed a bug with 'Production Notes/Status'.
- fixed a bug parsing role/duty and notes (also for httpThin).
- fixed a bug retrieving user ratings.
- fixed a bug (un)setting the proxy.
- fixed 2 bugs in movie/person news.
- fixed a bug in movie faqs.
- fixed a bug in movie taglines.
- fixed a bug in movie quotes.
- fixed a bug in movie title, in "full cast and crew" page.
- fixed 2 bugs in persons' other works.
[sql]
- hypothetical fix for a unicode problem in the imdbpy2sql.py script.
- now the 'imdbID' fields in the Title and Name tables are restored,
updating from an older version.
- fixed a nasty bug handling utf-8 strings in the imdbpy2sql.py script.
[mobile]
- supported the new result page for searches.
- fixed a bug for python2.2 (s60 mobile phones).
- fixed a bug searching for persons with single match and no
messages in the board.
- fixed a bug parsing role/duty and notes.
* What's new in release 3.0 "Spider-Man 3" (03 May 2007)
[global]
- IMDbPY now works with the new IMDb's site design; a new account is
used to access data; this affect a lot of code, especially in the
'http', 'httpThin' and 'mobile' data access systems.
- every returned string should now be unicode; dictionary keywords are
_not_ guaranteed to be unicode (but they are always 7bit strings).
- fixed a bug in the __contains__ method of the Movie class.
- fix in the analyze_title() function to handle malformed episode
numbers.