Python 2 code to extract movie details from fandango.com

fandango.py

from lxml import html, etree
import datetime
import requests
import re
import os
import sys
import unicodecsv as csv
import argparse
import json
from exceptions import ValueError


def parse(location, showdate):
    print "Fetching Locations.."
    searchedLocation = location
    searchedDate = showdate
    movie_listings = []

    # Cookies for searching theater location
    cookie = {
        'akamai_generated_location': '{"zip":"""","city":"CLIFTON","state":"NJ","county":"PASSAIC","areacode":"""","lat":"40.8800","long":"-74.1446","countrycode":""""}'
    }
    # Headers to get location details from their auto complete query
    location_headers = {
        'referer': 'https://www.fandango.com/',
        'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.84 Safari/537.36',
        'x-requested-with': 'XMLHttpRequest'
    }
    # Location autocomplete API endpoint
    location_url = 'https://www.fandango.com/napi/home/autocompleteDesktopSearch/' + searchedLocation
    data = {
        'zipCode': '',
        'city': '',
        'state': '',
        'date': str(searchedDate),
        'page': 1,
        'favTheaterOnly': False,
        'limit': 30,
        'offset': 0,
        'isdesktop': True
    }
    # Retrieving available locations
    location_response = requests.get(location_url, cookies=cookie, headers=location_headers).json()
    locations = location_response.get('resultsByType',{}).get('locations',{}).get('items',{})

    if locations:
        # Selecting first location from available locations
        searched_location = locations[0]
        searched_location_url = searched_location.get('link')
        location_name = searched_location.get('name')
        state = searched_location.get('state')
        # Getting city from location name, city is necessary to get theater lists if you are passing location as input
        city = location_name.split(',')[0].strip() if ',' in location_name else None

        if city and state:
            data['city'] = city
            data['state'] = state
        else:
            # city,state is not necessary if you are passing zipcode as input
            data['zipCode'] = location_name

        # Headers for getting theater listing for the searched location
        theater_headers = {
            'accept': '*/*',
            'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
            'accept-language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9,ml;q=0.8',
            'referer': searched_location_url,
            'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.75 Safari/537.36',
            'x-requested-with': 'XMLHttpRequest'
        }
        movie_url = 'https://www.fandango.com/napi/theaterswithshowtimes'

        # Fetching Movie details for search location
        print "Fetching movie details"
        try:
            movie_response = requests.get(movie_url, params=data, headers=location_headers).json()
        except:
            print "Failed to get movie details"

        all_theaters = movie_response.get('theaters')
        if all_theaters:
            # Iterating through each each theater
            for theater in all_theaters:
                theater_name = theater.get('name')
                address = theater.get('address1')
                city = theater.get('city')
                state = theater.get('state')
                zipcode = theater.get('zip')
                theater_address = address + ' ' + city + ' ' + state + ' ' + zipcode
                all_movies = theater.get('movies')
                # Iterating through each movie in a thaater
                if all_movies:
                    for movie in all_movies:
                        # cleaning data
                        movie_name = movie.get('title').strip()
                        duration = str(movie.get('runtime'))
                        genre = ','.join(' '.join(movie.get('genres')).split()).strip()
                        movie_rating = movie.get('rating')
                        star_rating = str(movie['stars']['totalRating']
                                          ['stars']['points']).strip()

                        movie_data = {
                            "Theatre_Name": theater_name,
                            "Theatre_Address": theater_address,
                            "Movie_Name": movie_name,
                            "Show_Date": searchedDate,
                            "Movie_Rating": movie_rating,
                            "Star_Rating": star_rating,
                            "Duration": duration,
                            "Genre": genre,
                            "Location_or_Zipcode": searchedLocation
                        }
                        movie_listings.append(movie_data)
                else:
                    print "No movies in %s"%(theater_name)

            return movie_listings

        else:
            print "No theaters found"
    else:
        print "No location found"

if __name__ == "__main__":

    ''' eg-:python fandango.py 20001 2017-12-31 '''

    argparser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    argparser.add_argument('location', help='theater location (zipcode or city+state)', type=str)
    argparser.add_argument('showdate', help='movie show time', type=str)
    args = argparser.parse_args()
    location = args.location
    showdate = args.showdate
    validdate = False

    try:
        datetime.datetime.strptime(showdate, '%Y-%m-%d')
        validdate =True

    except ValueError:
        print "Invalid showdate, showdate should be YYYY-MM-DD format"

    if validdate:
        searchdate = datetime.datetime.strptime(showdate, '%Y-%m-%d').date()
        today = str(datetime.datetime.today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))
        datenow = datetime.datetime.strptime(today,'%Y-%m-%d').date()

        if searchdate >= datenow:
            scraped_data = parse(location, showdate)

            if scraped_data:
                print "Writing data to output file"
                with open('%s-%s-movie-results.csv' % (location, showdate), 'w')as csvfile:
                    fieldnames = ['Theatre_Name', 'Theatre_Address', 'Movie_Name',
                                  'Show_Date', 'Location_or_Zipcode', 'Duration', 'Genre', 'Movie_Rating', 'Star_Rating']
                    writer = csv.DictWriter(csvfile, fieldnames=fieldnames, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)
                    writer.writeheader()
                    for data in scraped_data:
                        writer.writerow(data)
            else:
                print "Your search for %s, in %s does not match any movies" % (location, showdate)
        else:
            print "Entered date is already passed"