This spider is written in python using the Scrapy framework. It is licensed under the MIT lisense. Do with it what you will. If you'd like to contribute please send me a PR.
One thing to note if you do use this project, be aware that I'm not sure of the legality of this in a professional setting, so use it at your own risk. Also be aware that you can get your ip address banned from websites if you scrap. There are ways of mitigating this risk such as adding delay between requests, which I've built into this by default, but nonetheless there is still risk.
To run this code you need to have Python 3.7 installed on your computer and you need to have Scrapy 1.7 installed. Also, included is a pipfile so you can use pip env with this project. install by running pipenv install inside the project directory.
This spider was last updated in 2019 to search for a list of movies using the IMDB search engine and pull data into a pipeline.
This data can then be exported as a CSV or as JSON using Scrapy's built in export system using scrapy crawl <spider name> -o file.csv -t csv
The MIT License
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