usermarekdrag / movie-scraper

This script scrapes the Multikino website and retrieves a list of movie titles that are currently playing in a specified city on a specified showing date.

Movie Scraper

This script scrapes the Multikino website and retrieves a list of movie titles that are currently playing in a specified city on a specified showing date.

Usage

1. Set the CHROMEDRIVER_PATH variable to the path of your ChromeDriver executable.
2. Set the city variable to the name of the city where the cinema is located.
3. Set the showing_date variable to the date in format DD-MM-YYYY for which movie titles are to be retrieved.
4. Run the script.

The script will output a list of movie titles.

Dependencies

• contextlib
• selenium
• beautifulsoup4

Good programming practices

• The script defines constants at the top of the file and uses them throughout the script. This makes it easier to change the values in the future.
• The script defines a context manager for the ChromeDriver instance to ensure that the driver is properly closed after use.
• The script defines a function with a clear and concise docstring that explains its purpose, arguments, and return value.
• The script uses a try-except block to handle exceptions that may occur during scraping.
• The script prints a descriptive error message when an exception occurs.
• The script uses descriptive variable names to make the code easier to read and understand.

Further development

This script can be further developed and integrated into the MovieMate backend project available at https://github.com/UserMarekDrag/MovieMate-backend. For example, the script can be modified to scrape other websites for movie titles, and the retrieved data can be stored in a database to be used by the MovieMate backend. Additionally, the script can be integrated into a cron job to regularly update the movie titles available on the website.