IMDb Scraper

Table of Contents

• Description
• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• Example
• Contributing
• License

Description

The IMDB Scraper is a Python script that allows you to scrape movie data from the IMDb website. It retrieves information such as movie titles, ratings, cast members, and saves it in a structured format for further analysis or use.

Features

1. Scrapes movie data from IMDb
2. Retrieves movie titles, ratings, directors, and cast members
3. Saves data in a structured format JSON format

Installation

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/Leomv55/IMDB-movie-scrapper.git
2. Navigate to the project folder: cd IMDB-movie-scrapper
3. Install the required dependencies: pip3 install pipenv && pipenv install

Usage

1. Run the script: pipenv run python main.py "<query>", where <query> is the movie title you want to search for.
2. The script will scrape the data and save it in output dir.
3. To run the tests: pipenv run python tests.py

Example

Sample output:

[
    {
        "title": "The Matrix",
        "release_date": "1999",
        "ratings": "8.7",
        "directors": [
            "Lana Wachowski",
            "Lilly Wachowski"
        ],
        "cast": [
            "Keanu Reeves",
            "Laurence Fishburne",
            "Carrie-Anne Moss"
        ],
        "plot_summary": "When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence."
    },...
]

Recording:

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you have any suggestions, bug reports, or feature requests, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Contact

For any questions or inquiries, please contact leomv3@gmail.com.