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Python 3 Web Scraping Script to Get Movie Info Using IMDb Website and Save to JSON File
Jun 3, 2025
Get the full source code of application here:
https://codingshiksha.com/python/python-3-web-scraping-script-to-get-movie-info-using-imdb-website-and-save-to-json-file/
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you a
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Python module uh which will actually
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return you the movie information any
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sort of movie in the world you can input
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that movie name and then it will return
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you the information inside a JSON file
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such as the title of the movie the plot
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director rating cast the year of release
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everything it will return it inside a
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JSON file so this is actually the Python
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script here I input the movie name right
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here you can see Jurassic Park and let
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me run this script here so as soon as I
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run this you will see it will create
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this JSON file on the left hand side it
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will take some 5 to 8 seconds and then
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it will create this uh JSON file so
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movie info has been saved so you will
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see it has created this JSON file if I
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try to open this you will see it
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contains the title of the video sorry
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movie then the year of release and then
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it's a gen what is the type of the movie
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action adventure like this who is the
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director you will see the
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rating what is the plot here you get the
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description of the movie and then the
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cast here which who are the actors who
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performed in this uh movie everything
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you get guys you will see and for this
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we are using the internet movie database
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API I which is commonly known known as
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IMDb API and as you can see we we are
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not passing any API key because this
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module is actually scraping this
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internet movie database website and
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getting the required information for
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this you don't need the API key so I
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will show you this Python module let me
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try this with a different
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movie so I call this as
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any other movie you
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can so I just put this movie name again
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i run this so once again it will search
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or scrape the website with this movie
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name and it will return the data you
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will
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see the title here the year of
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release so it works with all the
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languages all the countries or movies as
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you can see everything has been
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scraped so in this easy way let me show
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you the website it's very popular
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website
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IMDb if you search on Google this is the
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most popular website regarding movies
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so they do offer their API but uh that
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requires some subscription fees as well
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so I am just telling you the free way so
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there is a Python module that you can
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use the module name is IMDb so just
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search IM
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so this is the module if you search it i
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think
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this yeah so this is actually the module
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here so you simply install
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this so now let me show you the actual
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script here
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so now just create a simple app py file
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let me delete
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this so first of all what we need to do
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uh we just need to import this package
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IMDb from this we need to import this
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and then we also need the JSON module as
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well and then we construct a new
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instance of this
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and then we search for the movie we give
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the title of the movie which movie you
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are talking
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about and then it will search this I a
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and it contains this function which is
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search
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movie so you can see it has all those
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methods can even search a character
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company episode as well but there is a
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function for searching the movie and you
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need to pass the movie title after that
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if the movie exist then we will get the
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information which is get underscore
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movie so you can see all these functions
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are there get box office movies all
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these functions are
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there so it's a great module so now we
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can get the movie the first
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movie and then the movie ID first of all
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we need to find out the movie ID after
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that using this we can extract all this
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information inside an JSON object so
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here we can extract all this information
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first of all the title then the year of
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release and then the rating and the then
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the director
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so you can see if a movie has multiple
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directors then it will loop through and
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then return next thing we can get is
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your the
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plot like
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this so this is I
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think
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plot
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outline and then we also have the
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cast to get the cast here we simply say
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actor
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so we get the top 10 members of the
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movie in this
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way so the full script I have given in
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the description of this video so if you
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need the full script you can go to the
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description link after getting this we
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simply save this data
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inside a JSON file
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so after we get this data we simply save
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this
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information simply use the open function
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and create
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this movie.json JSON
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file and dump this data after that we
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can write a simple print
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line your data has been
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saved so this is the actual script if I
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execute once again you will see it will
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scrape all this information of the movie
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and save it to a JSON file
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and you can see
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that you can
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see everything has been
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scraped so this is actually the thing
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guys you can directly use it this is a
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free module which communicates with the
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internet movie database
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API uh I think I forgotten the name here
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of the module let just wait
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i got this from chat GPT just wait let
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me show you the
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module i was chatting with this just
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wait let me search for the actual
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library
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uh I think I was there inside
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here where
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IMDb yeah so simply type here IMDb this
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is the page you will get
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so let me
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just submit this to chat GPT and they
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will tell me exactly tell me the module
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name for this i forgot this let me tell
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you the exact Yeah so this is actually
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the module here pip install yeah so
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exactly search for this module
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imdb py so this is actually the module
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here so yeah so this is the actual
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module simply install this by executing
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this command pip install imdb
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py so this is the exact module so it is
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not a very popular module but still it
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works so I basically tried this and it
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works every time whenever you put any
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movie name it will return all this
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information so thank you very much for
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watching this video and also check out
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my website freemediatools.com
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