Moive Decider using Python 🎥🐍

This project will be focused on creating a program that helps users decide on a movie to watch by providing recommendations based on the top 50 most popular movies for a year that the user inputs. The program will utilize Python and BeautifulSoup to implement algorithms for movie selection and user interaction, ultimately offering a convenient tool for movie enthusiasts to make informed decisions on what to watch.

Road Map 🗺️

This section is to plan out the sub-functions needed to make the whole program work

Starter Steps

1. Create the enviroment

   • Install BeautifulSoup and set it up
   • Install a HTML Parser

2. Get Local URL and use BeautifulSoup with basic tasks

   • Host a Local HTML file
   • Search for the data in the HTML file

3. Scrape Movie Data

   • Extract movie information (i.e. titles, ratings, and release years) from the URL.
   • Store the scraped data

4. Implement User Input Functionality

   • Develop a function to allow user input for a specific year
   • Validate user input to ensure it corresponds to a valid year within the specified range

5. Debug

6. Display Movie Recommendations:

   • List the top 50 movie recommendations to the user
   • Develop a function that allows the user to select the movie and provide the link to that IMDb page

7. Add comments

8. Improve Code

   • Increase readability
   • Optimize performance