IMDb Web Scraper

This repository contains a Python script for scraping data from IMDb charts. The script allows you to retrieve information from various IMDb charts, including:

• Top 250 Movies
• Most Popular Movies
• Top 250 TV Shows
• Most Popular TV Shows
• Lowest Rated Movies
• Top Rated English Movies

Info

The script extracts the title, year, and IMDb rating for each entry in the specified chart. It then writes the information to a ‘.csv’ file in the current directory.

Please note that the script skips any Movies/TV shows that do not have a rating in the charts.

Setup

To set up the IMDb web scraping script, follow these steps:

1. Initialize a Python virtual environment:

python -m venv venv

2. Activate the virtual environment:

# Windows:
.\venv\Scripts\activate
# Linux:
source venv/bin/activate

3. Update the pip package manager:

# Windows:
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
# Linux:
pip install pip -U

4. Install the required pip packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Usage:

python3 main.py
# or
py main.py