SBS on Demand Australia Scraper

Scrapes movie data from SBS on Demand into a JSON file

Installation

git clone https://github.com/muhashi/sbs-on-demand-scraper.git
cd sbs-on-demand-scraper
pip install -r requirements
python script.py --help

Usage

python script.py --help

This will display the (very few) options

usage: python script.py [-h] -o OUTPUT [-d DELAY]

Scrape SBS on Demand and save to JSON file

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Name of file to output JSON
  -d DELAY, --delay DELAY
                        Delay between requests in ms. Default is 1000ms

Output

The output format depends on what SBS's API returns, but here is an example of what the current output looks like:

[
  {
    "id": "123ecf45-dad9-58a4-8f40-3a45de6892dd",
    "entityType": "MOVIE",
    "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze",
    "slug": "teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-ii-the-secret-of-the-",
    "description": "The turtles team up with a news reporter against Shredder, who wants to create mutant monsters using the same radioactive material that created them.",
    "genres": [
      "Children",
      "Fantasy",
      "Adventure",
      "Film",
      "Action Adventure"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English"
    ],
    "textTracks": [
      {
        "localeID": "en",
        "language": "English",
        "type": "SUBTITLE"
      }
    ],
    "availability": {
      "start": "2022-09-04T14:00:00Z",
      "end": "2023-08-31T13:59:59Z"
    },
    "hasAudioDescription": false,
    "classificationID": "PG",
    "images": [
      {
        "id": "2fc6d6a8-ea0d-5fb0-a644-2859d69331e2",
        "category": "2:3|960|1440|BANNER"
      }
    ],
    "distributors": [
      {
        "id": "137",
        "name": "Umbrella Entertainment"
      }
    ],
    "duration": "PT1H24M53S",
    "mpxMediaID": 2062068291765,
    "releaseYear": 1991
  },
  ...
]