#Build a web scraper in python movie
In our original request to ChatGPT we have not specified which movie information should be extracted from the website. The script is running and after a few secods you can notice that a new file imdb_top_movies.cvs has been created and is containing the extracted movie information in CSV format.ĬhatGPT has generated a web scraping script which is working out of the box. Let's start the python script by entering the following command on the command line: $ python webscrape.py Therefore we first need to create a new file: $ mkdir chatgpt-web-scrape $ cd chatgpt-web-scrape $ touch webscrape.pyĪnd then we can copy and paste the code into webscrape.py: Let's try out if the code is working as expected. to_csv ( ' imdb_top_movies.csv ', index =False ) append () # Create a dataframe and save it to a csv df = pd. find ( ' span ', class_ = ' secondaryInfo ' ). find_all ( ' td ', class_ = ' titleColumn ' ) # Extract the desired information data = for movie in movies : title = movie. text, ' html.parser ' ) # Find all movie elements movies = soup. get ( url ) # Parse the HTML content soup = BeautifulSoup ( response. In the following listing you can see the complete Python code which was generated by ChatGPT: import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import pandas as pd # Retrieve the HTML content of the website url = ' ' response = requests.
#Build a web scraper in python full
Great ChatGPT is responding with the full and complete source code right away: Let's ask ChatGPT again to provide the Python web scraping script in just one file: However, we want to have the implementation in just one file, so that we only need to copy and paste it. Ok, that is already a great result and helps us understanding how the source code is performing its task. Web scrape with Python and BeautifulSoupĬhatGPT is then responding with the specific implementation steps and the corresponding source code in Python like you can see in the following screenshot:
Let's simple ask ChatGPT to perform this task by entering the following request: Maybe ChapGPT is able to help us to write the needed code. Let's say we'd like to use web scraping to extract movie information from this website with Python and it's web scraping library BeautifulSoup. IMDb is a website that provides information about movies, TV shows, and other forms of entertainment, including a chart of the top rated movies, The website displays a list of the top 250 rated movies on IMDb, including their title, cast, director, and IMDb rating: ChatGPT is able to generate the web scraping script code for you. Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting data from websites using scripts.
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