def parse_movie_card(card): """Extract title, year, genre, and detail URL from a card element.""" link = card.find('a', href=True) detail_url = BASE_URL + link['href'] title_raw = link.find('h2').get_text(strip=True)
<div class="movie-box"> <a href="/movie/12345/awesome-movie-2023"> <img src="..." alt="Awesome Movie 2023"> <h2>Awesome Movie (2023)</h2> </a> <p class="genre">Action, Thriller</p> </div> We only need the title, year, genre, and the detail‑page URL. If you register for a free TMDb API key (quick sign‑up), you can replace the scraper with: Anaconda 2 Filmyzilla
# Title format: "Awesome Movie (2023)" → split if '(' in title_raw and ')' in title_raw: title = title_raw.rsplit('(', 1)[0].strip() year = title_raw.rsplit('(', 1)[1].replace(')', '').strip() else: title = title_raw year = None def parse_movie_card(card): """Extract title
genre_tag = card.find('p', class_='genre') genre = genre_tag.get_text(strip=True) if genre_tag else None img src="..." alt="Awesome Movie 2023">
DB_PATH = "movies.db"
def scrape_latest_pages(pages=5, delay=2): """Iterate over the first N pagination pages and return a list of dicts.""" movies = [] for page in range(1, pages + 1): url = f"LIST_URL?page=page" html = fetch_page(url) soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "lxml") cards = soup.find_all('div', class_='movie-box') for card in cards: movies.append(parse_movie_card(card))