A Python script utilizing Beautiful Soup for scraping the top 100 movie titles from an archived webpage and storing them in a text file. Additionally, it can randomly select a movie title from this list.
- Data Scraping: Extracts content from a given web archive URL using Beautiful Soup.
- Text File Storage: Saves the scraped movie titles into
movies.txt. - Random Movie Selector: Picks a random movie title from the stored list.
- Beautiful Soup: For parsing HTML and XML documents.
- Requests: For making HTTP requests to web pages.
- Install Python 3.x on your system.
- Install the required libraries using pip:
pip install beautifulsoup4 requests
- Clone this repository or copy the
main.pyscript to your local machine. - Run the script with
python main.py.
- Simply run the script. It will fetch the list of movies and save them into
movies.txt. - When prompted, it will also print out a randomly selected movie title from the list.