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itsmehemant7 / PyMovieDb

A Simple IMDb API for Python
MIT License
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Not working! #4

Closed iamgojoof6eyes closed 1 year ago

iamgojoof6eyes commented 1 year ago

Sometimes, get_by_name() doesn't work. It returns no results even for famous movies like Deadpool, and Avengers Endgame.

itsmehemant7 commented 1 year ago

@iamgojoof6eyes PyMovieDb is based on web scraping, show some mercy to the main website i.e imdb.com... IMDB will not return desired response if you make a lot of requests simultaneously without any delay. Just keep some delay (like humans do) between requests. Tip: If you are using it with Django or Flask i.e. web app then (must) use cache to store the results (store the result if you got a 200 status code from API) for a few minutes.