austincap / pycritic

Python Metacritic API. Screen scraping based

Pycritic

A Python Metacritic API. Web scraping based.

What is this?

A simple Python module that works as a Metacritic API. It uses the BeautifulSoup and the Requests library.

Pycritic is under development and hasn't been tested enough (just in Python 2.7.3 for now).

Comming Soon ™

• Support for all categories
• Search

How to use it

Based on demo.py:

# If you have included pycritic.py in your project
import pycritic

# For now Pycritic just works with Metacritic URLs
scraper = pycritic.Scraper()
resource = scraper.get("http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/fallout-new-vegas")

print resource.name
# >> Fallout New Vegas
print resource.date
# >> Oct 19, 2010
print resource.metascore
# >> 84
print resource.userscore
# >> 8.0
print resource.description
# >> The latest game in the post-nuclear RPG series is being developed by many members of the Fallout 1 and 2  team at Obsidian Entertainment using the Fallout 3 engine.

License

Pycritic is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more details