Python IMDbPY - Searching a movie

Python IMDbPY – Searching movies matching with keyword

Last Updated : 25 Apr, 2025

In this article we will see how we can find movies that have similar keyword. Keyword is a word (or group of connected words) attached to a title (movie / TV series / TV episode) to describe any notable object, concept, style or action that takes place during a title. The main purpose of keywords is to allow visitors to easily search and discover titles.
In order to get movies that have similar keywords we use get_keyword method.

Syntax : imdb_object.get_keyword(keyword)
Argument : It takes string as argument i.e keyword
Return : It return list of movies object

Below is implementation.

Python3

# importing the module
import imdb
 
# creating instance of IMDb
ia = imdb.IMDb()
 
# keyword
keyword = "marvel"
 
# searching keyword
search = ia.get_keyword(keyword)

# printing the search 
print(len(search))
print(search[0])

Output :

50
Thor: Love and Thunder

Another example

Python3

# importing the module
import imdb
 
# creating instance of IMDb
ia = imdb.IMDb()
 
# keyword
keyword = "heaven"
 
# searching keyword
search = ia.get_keyword(keyword)

# printing the search 
print(len(search))
print(search[0])

Output :

50
The Good Place (2016–2020))

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