/movie_recommendor

A web spider which extracts good movies.

Primary LanguagePython

movie_recommendor

It is a web spider to scrape movies and suggest them according to your preferences and google rating and likes percent. If tired of finding new good movies, can be a real life saver.

Packages required

It requires following packages of python 3:

Scrapy

python3 -m pip install scrapy

Selenium

python3 -m pip install selenium

Chrome

sudo apt install chromium-chromedriver

It also requires to download the git repo.

cd desired_folder
git clone https://github.com/devanshusingla/movie_recommendor.git

How to Use

Change into the movie_recommendor directory and select the desired options in config.user.json. For ex: you can specify genre from genres mentioned in data/genre file and movie_categories from categories mentioned in data/categories file. Then run the python script through python3 main.py

It will continue to scrape data for a while. The extracted movies can be viewed in data/movies.jl file.

Credits

Devanshu and Amit