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Hossein
Hossein

Reputation: 41851

Scraping user reviews from imdb in python

I am deeply in need of an api or a piece of code that can extract the "user reviews" of a certain movie from imdb page. can someone help me please? thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2605

Answers (2)

Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran

Reputation: 56881

As pointed out above, Scraping would not be a good idea. But IMDBPy package provides a Movie class, which has amazon reviews. This is different from User Reviews tough.

Upvotes: 1

TJHeuvel
TJHeuvel

Reputation: 12608

I'm afraid IMDB doesnt allow that:

Robots and Screen Scraping: You may not use data mining, robots, screen scraping, or similar data gathering and extraction tools on this site, except with our express written consent as noted below.

http://www.imdb.com/help/show_article?conditions

Upvotes: 3

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