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Top 100 Movies Web Scraper (Python with API Integration)

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Technical Details:

Language: Python
Libraries: requests, bs4, lxml, collections
Concepts: API Integration, Data Handling
Features: Fetches HTML content from the Empire Online website, Parses the HTML using Beautiful Soup, Extracts the top 100 movie titles using CSS selectors and text slicing, Stores movies in an ordered dictionary, preserving the order from the webpage, Writes the movie list to a text file, formatting with ranking and movie title on each line

Key Learnings:

This project provided practical experience in web scraping with Python, particularly in extracting data from web pages. It focused on using the requests library for fetching web content, the Beautiful Soup library for HTML parsing and the collections module for creating an ordered dictionary.

Status:

Public Repository