Your own movie site in less than one minute with OMDb API and Python

• copy and paste top 250 movies from imdb and put in file called inimdb-top-rated.txt file (or take another movie list source, but the better the source/spelling/accuracy, the better the result)

  $ head  imdb-top-rated.txt 
    1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)  9.2   
    2. The Godfather (1972)   9.2   
    3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)  9.0   
    4. The Dark Knight (2008)   8.9   
    5. Pulp Fiction (1994)  8.9   

• normalize the data to title,year:

  $ grep -v "^ *$" imdb-top-rated.txt |perl -pe 's/ *\d+\.\s+(.*)\s+.*\((\d+)\).*/\1,\2/g' > movielist.txt
  
  $ wc -l movielist.txt
      250 movielist.txt
  
  $ head movielist.txt
  The Shawshank Redemption,1994
  The Godfather,1972
  The Godfather: Part II,1974
  The Dark Knight,2008
  Pulp Fiction,1994
  Schindler's List,1993
  12 Angry Men,1957
  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,2003
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,1966
  Fight Club,1999
  ```html

• run the python script that queries omdb for movie info returning a nice html page, 2% not found, but a movie html page in less than 1 minute :)

  $ time python your_moviedb.py movielist.txt
  ERR2: cannot find movie: Old Boy (year: 2003)
  ERR2: cannot find movie: Érase una vez en América (year: 1984)
  ERR2: cannot find movie: M (year: 1931)
  ERR2: cannot find movie: Nader y Simin, una separación (year: 2011)
  ERR2: cannot find movie: Relatos salvajes (year: 2014)
  Done, 245 processed, created static html movie page: topmovies.html
  
  real 0m13.348s
  user 0m0.755s
  sys 0m0.420s

• see example output by opening topmovies.html output file in the browser