IMDbScraper

This Project aims to facilitate gathering data on IMDb.

Features:

• Movie Title;
• Release Year;
• Age Rating;
• Genres;
• Duration;
• Rating;
• MetaScore;
• Customizable Output

Requirements:

• beautifulsoup4 – for parsing HTML
• lxml - the html parser
• requests – for making HTTP requests to retrieve webpage content.
• pandas – for storing and saving the data to a CSV or Excel file.
• openpyxl – required for saving to Excel format.

How to use:

1. Provide your urls: provide a list of movie urls to scrape.
2. Run the script.
3. Save the data: you can choose between csv and excel.

Notes:

• Rate Limiting: The algorithm has a builtin cooldown to avoid sending too many requests in a short period of time ann getting your ip blocked by IMDb.
• Always Changing Website: Due to IMDb's constant updating of their website, the elements and classes may change, requiring your attention before executing the program.