https://github.com/bbelderbos/own_movie_site

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bbelderbos/own_movie_site
• Owner: bbelderbos
• Created: 2016-02-23T00:37:57.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-02-23T21:16:00.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-23T02:12:21.362Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: HTML
• Size: 66.4 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Your own movie site in less than one minute with OMDb API and Python

* copy and paste top 250 movies from [imdb](http://www.imdb.com/chart/top) and put in file called inimdb-top-rated.txt file (or take another movie list source, but the better the source/spelling/accuracy, the better the result)

    ```html

    $ head  imdb-top-rated.txt 

      1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)  9.2   

      2. The Godfather (1972)   9.2   

      3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)  9.0   

      4. The Dark Knight (2008)   8.9   

      5. Pulp Fiction (1994)  8.9   

    ```

    

* normalize the data to title,year:

    ```html

    $ grep -v "^ *$" imdb-top-rated.txt |perl -pe 's/ *\d+\.\s+(.*)\s+.*\((\d+)\).*/\1,\2/g' > movielist.txt

    $ wc -l movielist.txt

        250 movielist.txt

    $ head movielist.txt

    The Shawshank Redemption,1994

    The Godfather,1972

    The Godfather: Part II,1974

    The Dark Knight,2008

    Pulp Fiction,1994

    Schindler's List,1993

    12 Angry Men,1957

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,2003

    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,1966

    Fight Club,1999

    ```html

    

* run the python script that queries [omdb](http://omdbapi.com/) for movie info returning a nice html page, 2% not found, but a movie html page in less than 1 minute :) 

    ```html

    $ time python your_moviedb.py movielist.txt

    ERR2: cannot find movie: Old Boy (year: 2003)

    ERR2: cannot find movie: Érase una vez en América (year: 1984)

    ERR2: cannot find movie: M (year: 1931)

    ERR2: cannot find movie: Nader y Simin, una separación (year: 2011)

    ERR2: cannot find movie: Relatos salvajes (year: 2014)

    Done, 245 processed, created static html movie page: topmovies.html

    real 0m13.348s

    user 0m0.755s

    sys 0m0.420s

    ```

* see example output by opening topmovies.html output file in the browser