vthechamp22 / find-imdb-ratings

A python mini project to fetch rating for movies using web scraping.

Find IMDB Ratings

This script is used to fetch the Ratings, genre and the platforms available to stream of the films in your films folder that match with ones on IMDb.

The data is scraped from IMDB's official website and store in a CSV file. The csv file can be used for analysis then, sorting acc to rating etc.

Input: -> Path of the directory which contains the films.

Output: -> A new csv file - 'film_ratings.csv' - which contains the ratings for the films in your directory.

P.S. - Please ask for assign before making a PR.
Creation of new issues is encouraged.

Do a git pull from the master repo before making a new Pull Request using
git remote add upstream https://github.com/utkarshbajaj/Find-IMDB-Ratings
git fetch upstream
git pull upstream master

Prerequisites

This program uses and external dependency of 'BeautifulSoup' (for web scraping), 'requests' (for fetching content of the webpage), 'pandas' (to make the csv file), 'os' (to get data from directory).
These libraries can be installed easily by using the following command: pip install -r requirements.txt

How to run the script

1. Install the requirements using the pip install -r requirements.txt command.
   
2. Type the following command: python GUI.py
   
3. Browse to the path where Films are located inside the folder
   
4. A csv file with rating will be created in the same directory as the python file.
   

Sample use of the script

Script :

Folder :

Result: (Also stored in a csv file)

Author

Utkarsh Bajaj

Contributors

• Avarindha
• Vipul Bajaj