Class: BoxOffice::Scraper

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/box_office/scraper.rb

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Class Method Details

.scrape_movie_list ⇒ Object

creates Movie objects and creates hash with movie titles and earnings from scraped website



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# File 'lib/box_office/scraper.rb', line 4

def self.scrape_movie_list # creates Movie objects and creates hash with movie titles and earnings from scraped website
  movie_list = Nokogiri::HTML(open("https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/box-office/?rank_id=0&country=us"))
  titles = []
  earnings = []

  movie_list.css("table td.left a").each do |title|
    @@movie_links << title.attr("href")
    movie = BoxOffice::Movie.new(title.text)
    titles << movie.title
  end

  movie_list.css("table td[7]").each do |earning|
    earnings << earning.text
  end

  [titles, earnings].transpose.to_h
end

.scrape_movie_page(index) ⇒ Object

Scrapes movie webpage and creates hash of movie info



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# File 'lib/box_office/scraper.rb', line 22

def self.scrape_movie_page(index) # Scrapes movie webpage and creates hash of movie info
  movie_page = Nokogiri::HTML(open("https://www.rottentomatoes.com/#{@@movie_links[index]}"))
  info_hash = {}
  movie_info = []

  movie_page.css("div.meta-value").each do |info|
    movie_info << info.text.gsub(/\s+/, " ").strip
  end

  movie_synopsis = movie_page.css("div#movieSynopsis").text.strip
  movie_critic_score = movie_page.css("span.meter-value")[0].text
  movie_audience_score = movie_page.css("div.meter-value").text.strip
  movie_cast = movie_page.css("div.castSection a span").text.gsub(/^\s*/, "").gsub(/\n/, ", ")

  info_hash[:synopsis] = movie_synopsis
  info_hash[:critic_score] = movie_critic_score
  info_hash[:audience_score] = movie_audience_score
  info_hash[:rating] = movie_info[0]
  info_hash[:genres] = movie_info[1]
  info_hash[:director] = movie_info[2]
  info_hash[:writers] = movie_info[3]
  info_hash[:cast] = movie_cast

  info_hash
end