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Scraping today's movies from my local movie theatre so I can avoid any potential popups/notifications/etc.

• BeautifulSoup4 for scraping
• TMDB's API to get movie details like genre
• occasionally use the Levenshtein distance algorithm to match movie titles - (read more here)
• store movie info in an sqlite db
• send HTML over the wire using Jinja2 for template rendering and HTMX for dynamic content updates
• if a movie has already started, we add line-through styling to that showtime
• a minimalist/neo-brutalist design style

how to run

1. python3 -m venv myvenv and source myvenv/bin/activate
2. pip3 install -r requirements.txt
3. initialize the db: python3 app/database/db_init.py
4. run the scrape module: python3 -m app.scraper.scrape
5. start the server: uvicorn app.main:app --reload
6. go to http://localhost:8000/

default content when first scraped - no movies have started yet, so none are crossed out

crossed out movies if they have already started/finished playing

fallback content if scraper has not yet run in the morning