Movie Details Collector

• MODEC collects and copies of your selected motion picture's basic details to your target Excel sheet

• Automatically opens the sheet
• If selected:
  • According to the selected poster size: html page will be generated and opened in a new browser tab
  • Searches for the movie on the selected, non-English movie site
• Using The Movie Database API and IMDb link or movie ID
• Inspired by my previous project: I aM D bee

Requirements

Python and Modules

Install packages\dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Separately

Python 3 - used: 3.11

• https://www.python.org/

Pyperclip

• https://pypi.org/project/pyperclip/

Requests

• https://pypi.org/project/requests/

Openpyxl

• https://pypi.org/project/openpyxl/

Others

The Movie Database API key

• Register and request an API key at The Movie Database API
• It is 100% FREE
• Save the API key in the api_key.txt file

Excel

• Any excel app installed on your system (MS Excel, LibreOffice Calc)

Target Excel Sheet

• Recommended: docs\ Movies_New_Record.xlsx

OS

• Windows (tested on 10)
• Linux (tested on Mint 21):
  • Window icon will not be displayed
  • Excel sheet will not open automatically
  • The checkbox text placement can be off, solution:
    • Change the font style to Arial in settings_db.json \ skins \ [every skin] \ font_style
  • Pyperclip module: "On Linux, this module makes use of the xclip or xsel commands, which should come with the os. Otherwise run “sudo apt-get install xclip” or “sudo apt-get install xsel” (Note: xsel does not always seem to work.) Otherwise on Linux, you will need the gtk or PyQt4 modules installed. "

Guide

Steps

• Copy your selected motion picture's IMDb link or ID to your clipboard
• Add the target excel sheet in MODEC
• Set the non-mandatory paramaters as you wish (3 checkboxes, roll-down menus)
• Click Save&Start

Directors

• For TV Series, TV Mini Series the Director value will not be populated in the Excel sheet
• Most of the time even 1 season is directed by multiple directors

Posters in new tab

• The generated posters.html will be opened in a new browser tab
• Poster`s width size estimates:
  • Small ~ 200px - 4/row
  • Medium ~ 500px - 2/row
  • Large ~ original = 1000px < - 1/row

Look for native title

• Searches for the movie on the selected, non-English movie site:
  • Uses the title and the release year of the movie
  • Adds it to the end of the selected search link
  • Opens it in a new browser tab

Quit after run

• Automatically exit after the engine function is executed (data collection and writing, poster in new tab, ..)

Target sheet path - Mandatory

• Recommended: docs\Movies_New_Record.xlsx
• You are able to add the location of the sheet
• If you are using your own sheet:
  • No merged cells for the Directors, Stars values (more than one cell can be used in the same column)

Modules used, which are part of Python 3.11

• datetime
• json
• os
• pathlib
• platform
• sys
• tkinter
• webbrowser

Thank you all who worked on the modules listed in this document!

Thank you The Movie Database team!