https://github.com/vipulbunny/oscar-web-scraper
This project is a web scraper that extracts data from the Wikipedia page listing Academy Award-winning films. It collects information such as the film's name, the year it won an Oscar, the number of awards received, and the number of nominations. The extracted data is processed and stored in a structured Pandas DataFrame for further analysis.
https://github.com/vipulbunny/oscar-web-scraper
beautifulsoup4 pandas pandas-dataframe python requests webscraping
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This project is a web scraper that extracts data from the Wikipedia page listing Academy Award-winning films. It collects information such as the film's name, the year it won an Oscar, the number of awards received, and the number of nominations. The extracted data is processed and stored in a structured Pandas DataFrame for further analysis.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/vipulbunny/oscar-web-scraper
- Owner: VIPULbunny
- Created: 2025-01-30T17:48:11.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-01-30T17:50:27.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-06-01T13:55:35.126Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: beautifulsoup4, pandas, pandas-dataframe, python, requests, webscraping
- Language: Python
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- Size: 2.93 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# 🎬 Oscar-Web-Scraper
## 📌 Description
Oscar-Web-Scraper is a Python-based web scraping project that extracts data from the Wikipedia page listing **Academy Award-winning films**. The script retrieves details such as:
- 🎥 **Film Name**
- 📅 **Year of Award**
- 🏆 **Number of Awards Won**
- 🎖 **Number of Nominations**
The scraped data is stored in a **Pandas DataFrame**, making it easy for analysis and visualization.
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## 🛠 Tech Stack
- **Python** 🐍
- `BeautifulSoup` – For web scraping
- `Requests` – For fetching web content
- `Pandas` – For data processing
- `Matplotlib & Seaborn` – For data visualization (optional)
---
## 🚀 Installation & Usage
### 🔹 Prerequisites
Ensure you have **Python 3.x** installed along with the required libraries:
```bash
pip install numpy pandas matplotlib seaborn beautifulsoup4 requests
```
### 🔹 Clone the Repository
```bash
git clone https://github.com/your-username/Oscar-Web-Scraper.git
cd Oscar-Web-Scraper
```
### 🔹 Run the Script
```bash
python oscar_scraper.py
```
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## 📊 Sample Output
```
Film Year Awards Nominations
1363 Nomadland 2020 3 6
1364 CODA 2021 3 3
1365 Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022 7 11
```
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## 📌 Features
✅ **Automated Web Scraping** – Extracts Oscar-winning movie data from Wikipedia.
✅ **Data Cleaning** – Removes unnecessary HTML tags and structures the data.
✅ **Pandas Integration** – Stores data in a structured format for further analysis.
✅ **Easy to Use** – Just run the script and get the latest Oscar-winning films.
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## 📝 License
This project is licensed under the **MIT License**.
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## 👨💻 Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit a pull request or open an issue.
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## ⭐ Support
If you found this project useful, give it a ⭐ on GitHub!