Python Movie Web Crawler: Configuration, Features, and Code Overview

Today we share a practical Python web crawler project that fetches movie information from Douban, supports searching by ranking list or keyword, and displays details in a Tkinter GUI.

Configuration

1. Download the appropriate ChromeDriver from the official storage site. 2. Edit getMovieInRankingList.py line 59 to set executable_path to your ChromeDriver path. 3. Install required packages with pip install Pillow and pip install selenium .

Features

Search movies by keyword.

Search top‑250 movies by ranking.

Show IMDB rating and basic information.

Provide multiple free video source links.

Offer cloud‑disk search links for saving videos.

Offer batch download links from various sites.

Future updates pending.

Known Issues

The crawler currently lacks anti‑scraping measures; a 403 Forbidden response may occur. Suggested mitigations include adding cookies, random delays, or using an IP proxy pool.

Core Code

<code>from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

class getMovieInRankingList:
    def __init__(self):
        chrome_options = Options()
        chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
        chrome_options.add_argument('user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.121 Safari/537.36"')
        chrome_options.add_experimental_option('excludeSwitches', ['enable-automation'])
        chrome_options.add_experimental_option('prefs', {"profile.managed_default_content_settings.images": 2})
        self.browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='YOUR_PATH', chrome_options=chrome_options)
        self.wait = WebDriverWait(self.browser, 10)
    # ... additional methods for ranking and keyword search ...
</code>

The accompanying uiObject.py builds a Tkinter interface that lists movies in a table, shows selected movie details, fetches IMDB ratings, and provides buttons to open online streams, cloud‑disk links, or download sources.

Running the ui_process() method launches the full application.