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, -- Davide Alberani <davide.alber...@gmail.com> [GPG KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://erlug.linux.it/~da/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Imdbpy-help mailing list Imdbpy-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/imdbpy-help