Movies Scrapper

A basic python script which scrappes movies from the popular site Thenetnaija.com.

{
    "movies": [
    {
      "movie_thumbnail": "https://static.netnaija.com/i/AqgKGWZnKr1.webp",
      "movieName": "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always (2023)",
      "movieUrl": "https://www.thenetnaija.net/videos/movies/18510-mighty-morphin-power-rangers-once-always-2023"
    },
    {
      "movie_thumbnail": "https://static.netnaija.com/i/qEQN2rzZN6W.webp",
      "movieName": "A Thousand and One (2023)",
      "movieUrl": "https://www.thenetnaija.net/videos/movies/18507-a-thousand-and-one-2023"
    },
    {
      "movie_thumbnail": "https://static.netnaija.com/i/XV5KvPRGa9m.webp",
      "movieName": "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)",
      "movieUrl": "https://www.thenetnaija.net/videos/movies/18505-ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania-2023"
    },
}

Installation

Install necessary dependencies for this script

pip install

run the file by executing the command below

python app.py

All generated movies are found within the movies.json file in current directory where this script is executed.

To set the script to scrape every movies in thenetnaija website which is currently 228 pages, reste the code below.

Simply comment out the code below which should be from line 94-101

#* if you need to stop scrapping at a specified page count, comment this line below
if page == 3:
    movieJsonFileRead = open("movies.json", "r")
    movieData = movieJsonFileRead.read()
    mvCont = json.loads(movieData)
    movies = mvCont["movies"]
    print(f"Total movies scrapped into 'movies.json' file : {len(movies)}")
    break