Person biography not working (please urgent i need it for my bachelor thesis)

[elenado01]

Issue description

I'm trying to obtain the biography of a person, but all of them raise an error. It is strange, since i ran the same code a few months ago and the biographies from the actors were available. Does anyone know if it is a general issue with the package or is it just me?

Version of Cinemagoer, Python and OS

NOTICE: please always try the latest version from the repository before submitting a bug.

• Python: python3 -V or, if you are using Python 2, python -V
• Cinemagoer: python3 -c 'import imdb ; print(imdb.VERSION)' or, if you are using Python 2, python -c 'import imdb ; print(imdb.VERSION)'
• OS: python -c 'import platform ; print(platform.uname())'

Steps to reproduce the issue

if possible, provide a minimal code to reproduce the problem

#!/usr/bin/env python
from imdb import Cinemagoer
# create an instance of the Cinemagoer class
ia = Cinemagoer()

person = ia.get_person('0000401')
person['biography']

What's the expected result?

• before the infoset2keys showed this:
  {'main': ['headshot', 'filmography', 'imdbID', 'name'],
  'biography': ['headshot',
  'nick names',
  'birth name',
  'height',
  'mini biography',
  'trade mark',
  'trivia',
  'quotes',
  'salary history',
  'birth date',
  'birth notes']}

What's the actual result?

• {'main': ['headshot', 'filmography', 'imdbID', 'name'], 'biography': []}

Additional details

[DirkWuerdemann]

Hi all, I have the same Issue. When I read the the actress nm0726257 Katja Riemann I got in the last Version (2022.12.04) a Key "mini biography" and also values for "trivia". This is not available any more in version 2023.05.01. Same for "birth date", "birth name" and "birth notes"

[alberanid]

Yep, I can confirm that they changed again and again and again the format of the web pages.

I'm in a hurry, so I've just committed a quick fix for just for 'mini biography'.

Please upgrade with pip install git+https://github.com/cinemagoer/cinemagoer (be sure that imdb.VERSION is '2023.07.01')

Sooner or later I'll try to fix all the other information.

[txtsd]

I took a look at the code in personParser.py but the XPaths and related piculet-specific code looks non-trivial to rectify for a person reading it for the first time.

Birth and Death dates, specifically, are not stored in time elements anymore, but are two li>as.