IMDB Movie Info CRAWLER

movie_info.py

import re
import requests
import urllib
import json

# MOVIE_NAME = 'The Other Dream Team'

BASE_URL = 'http://www.imdbapi.com/?'
NAME_LIST = file('movies.txt','r')

def get_movie_info(movi_name):
	query = {'i': '', 't': movi_name ,'tomatoes':'true'}
	part = urllib.urlencode(query)
	url = BASE_URL+part
	response = requests.get(url)
	output  = json.dumps(response.content, separators=(',',':'))
	movie_info = {}
	info_list = ['Plot','Title','Director','tomatoRating', 'Rating']
	for info in info_list:
		if info == 'Rating':
					movie_info['IMDB Rating'] = get_and_clean_data(info, output)
		movie_info[info] = get_and_clean_data(info, output)
 
	return movie_info
	
def get_and_clean_data(tag,data):
	try:
            temp_data = data.split(tag)[1].split(",")[0]
	    data = re.sub(r':\\"+','',temp_data).replace('\\"','')
	except IndexError,e:
            print "Error Occured! %s" %e
	    return ""	
	
       return data	
	
def get_movi_name(name_list):
	for name in name_list:
		print "Getting Movi %s " % name
		print get_movie_info(name)
		
	return
	
if __name__=='__main__':
	# get_imdb_id('The Pianist')
	get_movi_name(NAME_LIST)