Use IMDB data to automatically populate an Obsidian template using Python

Share & showcase
1

If you’re like me and just wrote down your top 100 movies that you liked and tried Googling each movie to refresh your memory, you would know it takes ages! I wrote a Python script that automatically allows me to populate an Obsidian template for my list of movies so that I can focus on writing my thoughts about each movie.

It takes this csv list of movies:
image

And populate this template for each of the movies:

image
image1137×956 152 KB

I’ve open sourced my code here: GitHub - wjivan/obsidianmovies: IMDB metadata to markdown for Obsidian
If you know a thing or two about creating a plugin for this that would be awesome!

2 Likes
2

This seems like awesome idea. Your idea could be expanded I think.

I have added a large number of movies to my watch list on iMDb. It woild be awesome if a script could expand this list in the same way.