IMDb Automated Recommendation Scraper

This is an automated web scraper written in node, using puppeteer.

Features

• Logs into the user's account, searches and rates a given movie/show.

• Adds all similar movies to watchlist (skips if they're already added/rated).

• Scrapes data from all the similar movies.

• Sharing a movie quote from the recently watched movie to Twitter.

• Stores the scraped data in JSON format.

• Also creates and opens an HTML page, showing what movies to watch next, sorted by IMDb rating.

• Stylize the HTML page using CSS or by using a templating language like handlebars.

• Convert to PDF.

• Showing where you can watch the recommended movies. (Decider.com)

• Email the recommendations to the user.

Usage

• Clone the repository.

• Open the base directory of the repository.

• Run the following command in terminal:

  npm install

• Create a credentials.JSON in the activity folder file with your IMDb account email and password as follows:

    {
        "email": "YOUR_EMAIL_ID_HERE",
        "password": "YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE",
        "password2": "TWITTER_PASSWORD_HERE",
        "adminEmail": "MAILER_ID_HERE",
        "adminPassword": "MAILER_PASSWORD_HERE"
    }

  Note: IMDb account and Twitter account should have same email id, otherwise you'll have to make changes in the code.

• Open a terminal in the activity folder and run the following command:

  node recommend.js credentials.json "MOVIE_TITLE_HERE" YOUR_RATING_HERE