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IMDb Automated Recommendation Scraper

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

demo

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