This script will ask for a movie title and a year and then query IMDB for it.
Command Line IMDB Scraper
First step is to import the necessary modules.
#!/usr/bin/env python27
#Importing the modules
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import sys
import urllib2
import re
import json
#Ask for movie title
title = raw_input("Please enter a movie title: ")
#Ask for which year
year = raw_input("which year? ")
#Search for spaces in the title string
raw_string = re.compile(r' ')
#Replace spaces with a plus sign
searchstring = raw_string.sub('+', title)
#Prints the search string
print searchstring
#The actual query
url = "http://www.imdbapi.com/?t=" + searchstring + "&y="+year
request = urllib2.Request(url)
response = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(request))
print json.dumps(response,indent=2)
Enjoy it!
