countrymovies

phantomjs project grabbing most mentioned movies by country results from google.

If you google "countryname best films", you'll get a banner of nicely formated results and I thought it'd be interesting and useful to have those all in one page. I've additionally linked each movie to a youtube search to view the trailer.

###The final page can be found (it takes a minute to load): http://www.diegoolano.com/countries/movies.html

###Steps for how you could create the page via phantomjs and bash scripting:

1. clone code

2. in unix, go to directory and run:

while read c; do echo $c; phantomjs getmoviesbycountry.js $c; sleep 0.1; done < countrylist

3. this generates some size zero files (for countries which return no results via google) so remove them:

find . -size 0 -exec rm {} \;

4. now move all html files into "country" folder and then merge them into one big file and edit to show

mkdir country
mv *.html country
cd country/
for i in *.html; do echo "<div class='country'>$i</div>" >> movies.html; v=`cat $i`; echo "$v" >> movies.html;  done

5. the rest is just adding html/js/css to the file, and some text processing, which I did largely via vim.