IMDb_Scraper

A fun projects made using Scrapy. The Spiders included in this are able to extract Movie, TV-Series, TV-Movies based on year and title type. A lot more to come features ahead

Run

Create and activate virtual env

Python3

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

Anaconda

>> conda create --name venv
>> conda activate venv

Dependencies

• Scrapy

Extracted information

IMDb Scraper extracts the following attributes from IMDb websites. Also, have a look at an examplary json and CSV file extracted by IMDb Scraper.

• Movie Name
• Movie ID
• Movie URL
• Poster
• Year
• Genre
• RunTime
• Certificate
• Rating
• MetaScore
• Plot
• Votes
• Gross
• Director
• Director ID
• Director URL
• Cast
• Cast ID
• Cast URL

Install dependencies

Use the package manager pip to install following

>> pip install -r requirements.txt
>> pip install scrapy

Anaconda

>> conda install scrapy -y

TitleType was the main parameter to different title alongside release year to sort the release

• feature
• tv_series
• tv_movie
• tv_episode
• tv_special
• tv_miniseries
• documentary
• video_game
• short
• video
• tv_short

Usage

>> scrapy crawl imdb_year -a title_type=feature -a year=2019

Save the output as a file

>> scrapy crawl imdb_year -a title_type=feature -a year=2019 -o output.csv

>> scrapy crawl imdb_year -a title_type=feature -a year=2019 -o output.json