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license: mit
task_categories:
  - text-classification
  - text-generation
  - question-answering
  - summarization
language:
  - en
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IMSDb Scraper

A Python script that scrapes movie script details from the Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb) website.

Features:

  • Fetches all script links available on IMSDb.
  • Retrieves details for each movie script including:
    • Title
    • Poster Image URL
    • IMSDb Opinion
    • IMSDb Rating
    • Average User Rating
    • Writers
    • Genres
    • Script Date
    • Movie Release Date
    • Submitted By
    • Full Script Text

Installation

  1. Clone repository.

  2. Install the required Python packages.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

  1. Simply run the script.
python scraper.py
  1. After the script runs, the extracted movie script details will be saved to data.jsonl.

Error Handling

If any errors occur during scraping, they will be written to error.txt with the respective URL and error message.

Contributing

Feel free to open issues or PRs if you find any problems or have improvements in mind.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more details.