Access systems
Cinemagoer supports different ways of accessing the IMDb data:
Fetching data directly from the web server.
Getting the data from a SQL database that can be created from the downloadable data sets provided by the IMDb.
access system |
aliases |
data source |
---|---|---|
(default) ‘http’ |
‘https’ ‘web’ ‘html’ |
imdb.com web server |
‘s3’ |
‘s3dataset’ |
downloadable dataset after Dec 2017 |
‘sql’ |
‘db’ ‘database’ |
downloadable dataset until Dec 2017 |
Note
Since release 3.4, the imdbpy.cfg
configuration file is available,
so that you can set a system-wide (or per-user) default. The file is
commented with indication of the location where it can be put,
and how to modify it.
If no imdbpy.cfg
file is found (or is not readable or
it can’t be parsed), ‘http’ will be used the default.
See the S3 datasets and Old data files documents for more information about SQL based access systems.