IMDB Movie Scraper
Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is used for extracting data from websites. USE CASES Find how many films have a specified rating Check if a particular actor was included in the cast of a movie Get list of movies shot at a particular place Count movies released in a particular year The Components of a Web Page When we visit a web page, our web browser makes a request to a web server. This request is called a GET request, since we're getting files from the server. The server then sends back files that tell our browser how to render the page for us. In this project we are performing the GET request at http://www.imdb.com/chart/top .The files fall into a few main types: HTML -- contain the main content of the page. CSS -- add styling to make the page look nicer. JS -- Javascript files add interactivity to web pages. Images -- image formats, such as JPG and PNG allow web pages to show pictures. After our browser receives all the files, it r...
