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Find IMDb Rating

Reads the names of film files from a local directory, searches IMDb for each title, scrapes the rating and genre, and writes the results to filmrat…

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Find IMDb Rating

Reads the names of film files from a local directory, searches IMDb for each title, scrapes the rating and genre, and writes the results to film_ratings.csv.

Example

Enter the path where your films are: /home/user/films
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title=inception
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title=the+dark+knight
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title=interstellar

After the script finishes, film_ratings.csv is written with columns Film Name, Rating, and Genre:

Film Name,Rating,Genre
Inception,8.8," Sci-Fi, Thriller"
The Dark Knight,9.0," Action, Crime, Drama"
Interstellar,8.6," Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi"

How to run on localhost

pip install beautifulsoup4 requests pandas
python Find_imbd_rating.py

Dependencies