Python script for determining the total time you've spent watching movies and TV shows based on your IMDb ratings.

timespent.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2

user_id = {{USER_ID_HERE}}
ratings_url = "http://www.imdb.com/user/" + user_id + "/ratings"
total_runtime = 0

def get_ratings_page(url):
    print("fetching: " + url)
    response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
    html = response.read()
    return html

def get_movies(page):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(page, 'html.parser')
    
    items = 0
    time = 0

    # find all list elements
    for movie in soup.find_all("div", { "class" : "list_item" }):

        # find the description element within each list item
        desc_element = movie.find("div", { "class" : "item_description" })
        if desc_element:

            # increase the count of found items
            items += 1

            # find the span element that contains the runtime (in minutes)
            min_element = desc_element.find("span")
            if min_element:

                # parse out the actual minutes
                min_text = min_element.string.replace("(", "").replace(" mins.)", "")

                # convert the string into an int
                minutes = int(min_text)

                # ignore TV shows (less than 60 min)
                if (minutes > 60):
                    time += minutes

    # no items found
    if items == 0:
        return 0

    # add the time for the page to the total_runtime var
    global total_runtime
    total_runtime += time

    return items    

def get_all_movies(url):

    num_items = 0

    # loop until no more pages
    while (True):

        page_url = url + "?start=" + str(num_items)
        page_html = get_ratings_page(page_url)

        items_found = get_movies(page_html)
        if items_found == 0:
            break
        else:
            num_items += items_found + 1

    # calculate hours and minutes
    global total_runtime
    hours = total_runtime / 60
    minutes = total_runtime % 60

    # calculate days (!!!)
    if hours > 24:
        days = hours / 24
        hours = hours % 24
        print("\ntotal running time = {}d {}h {}m".format(days, hours, minutes))
        
    else:
        print("\ntotal running time = {}h {}m".format(hours, minutes))
    

get_all_movies(ratings_url)

I signed up to Github to thank you and ask if you could explain how to run it.

Hey! I doubt this is working anymore, but youd update USER_ID on Line 4 and then run it from the command line.

I have zero knowledge of coding/programming.
I created an account here just to post this.
Can somebody explain me how to use this (explain me like I'm 5)