IMDB scraper

Build a web scraper using Python from HTML web pages, and create a DataFrame with pandas.

Scrape data from IMDb’s Top 1,000 movies

There are 50 movies on each page.

Features

In order to get all the necessary information about each movie, the crawler GET information from each page and go to the next page until all the data is obtained.

Final Data

Sample Data

Extract the following fields for each movie.

• title: name of the movie
• year: the year that movie created
• time: length of the movie in minutes
• imdb_rating: the movie’s IMDb rating
• metascore: the movie’s Metascore rating
• votes: number of votes that movie achieved
• us_gross: the amount of cost for the movie in million-dollar

Always consider that maybe all the information is not available to scrape. Code should not stop or break for these cases if data is missing.

How to use

Requirements

The script uses the following packages:

• jupyterlab
• pandas
• beautifulsoup4
• requests

setup

install the required packages:

if you want to use virtual env, create it using the following commands:

python3 -m venv .venv
source ./.venv/bin/activate

To install the required packages:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Running the script

You can either use the jupyter notebook or script to get your data. To run the script, activate your virtualenv and run the following command:

python imdb_scraper.py