This script opens the IMDb page that corresponds to the currently playing media file, whether a film or a specific TV episode.

It does this by extracting/guessing the relevant metadata from the file name (using guessit), finding it on IMDb, and then opening the page in a new tab on your default browser.

Scene/release-type file names are supported.

The script is tested on Windows and Linux, and should work on any platform with the dependencies correctly installed.

You need Python 3 installed and in path, as well as the modules guessit and cinemagoer. The latest git version of cinemagoer should be used:

pip install guessit
pip install git+https://github.com/cinemagoer/cinemagoer

The script won't load for any mpv build below v0.33.1 (Apr 05, 2021). Since that release includes security fixes, you should upgrade to the newest version anyways. Note that the default repos of Debian/Ubuntu are often outdated.

Copy the contents of this repo into a folder inside the scripts folder of your mpv configuration directory (See mpv's manual).

For example, installing can be done like this:

# Linux:
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/ctlaltdefeat/mpv-open-imdb-page ~/.config/mpv/scripts/mpv-open-imdb-page
# Windows:
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/ctlaltdefeat/mpv-open-imdb-page %APPDATA%/mpv/scripts/mpv-open-imdb-page
# To update (in Linux, Win is analogous):
git -C ~/.config/mpv/scripts/mpv-open-imdb-page pull
# To update dependencies:
pip install --upgrade guessit git+https://github.com/cinemagoer/cinemagoer

By default, the script binds itself to Ctrl+i. You can change the binding by editing the last line in the main.lua script file or in mpv's input.conf like this:

Ctrl+i script-binding open-imdb-page