Web Scrape Movie Database with Beautiful Soup
Get your Database to Predict Next Trending Movie
Motivation
You want to predict what is the next trending movie with machine learning. You try to search for clean data for building a machine learning model but desperate to find one. So you think about creating your data. But you are hesitant to find your own data because you may not know much about HTML or web scraping.
What if I tell you could scrape with Python without former knowledge of HTML? Plus it is easy to learn and implement? Beautiful Soup is the Python library for web scraping that would enable you to scrape HTML and XML files easily. You could find the documentary about the library here. As long as you know you to use Python, by following this tutorial, you will gain a significant understanding of how to create your own data.
I created a previous tutorial on how to web scrape on Wikipedia that you can find here. What is different from this tutorial is that I will introduce different functions of Beautiful Soup that would enable you to access the next element in case that the tag you want to access does not have unique attributes. You will also learn how to scrape multiple pages with the same structure at once.
