https://github.com/aish2002/Movie-Info-Telegram-Bot

A telegram bot which scrapes IMDb website to get details on movies and TV shows
https://github.com/aish2002/Movie-Info-Telegram-Bot

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A telegram bot which scrapes IMDb website to get details on movies and TV shows

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/aish2002/Movie-Info-Telegram-Bot
• Owner: aish2002
• Created: 2021-01-28T06:43:06.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-07-10T15:29:23.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-27T14:35:14.198Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: bot, python, telegram-bot, webscraping
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 27.3 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Movie Info Telegram Bot

## Description

A telegram Bot made using python which scrapes IMDb website and has the following functionalities

1. Replies to a movie name with genre and rating of the movie

2. Replies to a genre with a list of top movies and tv shows belonging to that genre

## Setup Instructions

1. Install required packages:

       pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Create a bot in telegram:

       1. Go to @BotFather and click /start and type /newbot and give it a name. 

       2. Choose a username and get the token 

3. Paste the token in a .env file 

4. Run the python script to start the bot

5. Type /start command to start conversation with the chatbot.

6. Type /name  to get the genre and Rating of the movie. The bot replies with atmost three results.

7. Type /genre \ to get a list of movies and TV shows belonging to that genres