imdb-search

take-home exercise imdb scraper and search

Installation Instructions

To run the project using a virtual environment, enter the commands below on your terminal.

git clone https://github.com/akcays/imdb-search

cd imdb-search

pip install virtualenv

python3 -m venv . 

source ./bin/activate

pip install BeautifulSoup4

pip install requests

pip install lxml

To run the singlethreaded version

python3 web_scraper.py

To run the multithreaded version

python3 web_scraper_multithread.py

At this point, a movies.json file should have been created with top 1000 movies, to run the api

python3 movies_api.py

Stretch goals

• My first goal has been increasing the speed of fetching the top 1000 movies, for this I used threading module of Python to distribute the work among multiple workers/threads so that movies can load faster.

• If I had more time, my other goal would be adding more metrics, such as 'rating', I'd return the results (movie titles) for a search by descending order of their ratings.