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How can you extract movie titles and ratings from a streaming site?
Streaming sites often display structured data for movies, including titles, ratings, genres, and descriptions. Scraping these details requires inspecting the HTML layout to identify where the titles and ratings are stored. For static pages, BeautifulSoup is ideal for extracting this data, while dynamic pages may require Selenium or Puppeteer to load JavaScript content. Additionally, some streaming sites embed movie details in JSON or as part of their API, which can simplify data extraction if accessible.
Here’s an example of scraping movie titles and ratings using BeautifulSoup:import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup url = "https://example.com/movies" headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0"} response = requests.get(url, headers=headers) if response.status_code == 200: soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, "html.parser") movies = soup.find_all("div", class_="movie-item") for movie in movies: title = movie.find("h3", class_="movie-title").text.strip() rating = movie.find("span", class_="movie-rating").text.strip() print(f"Title: {title}, Rating: {rating}") else: print("Failed to fetch movie data.")Dynamic content may require interacting with elements like dropdowns or filters using Selenium. For large-scale scraping, using a combination of API calls and browser automation can improve efficiency. How do you deal with anti-scraping measures on streaming sites?
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3 Replies
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I use rotating proxies and headers to mimic human behavior. This helps avoid detection when scraping multiple movie details across a site.
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For sites that embed data in JSON, I extract it directly by monitoring network traffic. This method is faster and avoids the complexity of parsing HTML.
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For handling dynamic content, Puppeteer works better than Selenium due to its faster execution and support for headless browsers.
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