imdb.py

#!/usr/bin/python

"""
Find IMDB id of a given movie searching by title.
Works with all languages, not just English like
all the IMDB-python libs I've found on the internet.
"""

__author__ = '3mpty'

import urllib
import requests

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

import re

IMDB_FIND_URL = "http://www.imdb.com/find?&s=all&%s"


def find_imdb_id_from_title(title):
    url = IMDB_FIND_URL % urllib.urlencode({"q":title})

    html = requests.request("GET", url).text
    bs = BeautifulSoup(html)
    href = bs.find("div", {"id":"main"}).find("td", {"class":"result_text"}).find("a").get("href")
    imdb_id = re.match(".*/(tt\d+)/.*", href).group(1)

    return imdb_id

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print find_imdb_id_from_title("matrix (1999)")