Python: how to obtain information about a movie from a movie website based on user input

This article mainly introduces how python can obtain video information from a movie website based on user input. it involves Python regular expression crawling web pages, which is of great practical value, for more information, see the following example. Share it with you for your reference. The details are as follows:

This python code mainly demonstrates user terminal input, regular expressions, web page capture, etc.

#! /Usr/bin/env python27 # Importing the modulesfrom BeautifulSoup import export sysimport urllib2import reimport json # Ask for movie titletitle = raw_input ("Please enter a movie title :") # Ask for which yearyear = raw_input ("which year? ") # Search for spaces in the title stringraw_string = re. compile (R'') # Replace spaces with a plus signsearchstring = raw_string.sub ('+', title) # Prints the search stringprint searchstring # The actual queryurl = "http://www.imdbapi.com /? T = "+ searchstring +" & y = "+ yearrequest = urllib2.Request (url) response = json. load (urllib2.urlopen (request) print json. dumps (response, indent = 2)

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