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Created January 28, 2022 17:28
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Outputs a list of IMDB top 250 movies
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IMDB.py
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
URL = "https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/"
response = requests.get(URL)
scraped = response.text
mysoup = BeautifulSoup(scraped, "html.parser")
movies = mysoup.find_all(name="td", class_="titleColumn")
movie_titles = [movie.getText().strip().replace("\n", " ") for movie in movies]
for n in range(0, 250):
print(f"{re.sub(' +', ' ',movie_titles[n])}")
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