Class: BoxOffice::Scraper

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

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.scrape_movie_list ⇒ Object

Scrapes website and creates Movie objects



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# File 'lib/box_office/scraper.rb', line 2

def self.scrape_movie_list # Scrapes website and creates Movie objects
  movie_list = Nokogiri::HTML(open("https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/box-office/?rank_id=0&country=us"))

  movie_list.css("table.center.table tr[itemprop='itemListElement']").each do |row|
    movie = BoxOffice::Movie.new
    movie.title = row.css("td.left a").text.strip
    movie.link = row.css("td.left a").attr("href").text.strip
    movie.earnings = row.css("td[7]").text.strip
  end
end

.scrape_movie_page(index) ⇒ Object

Scrapes movie webpage and creates hash of movie attributes



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# File 'lib/box_office/scraper.rb', line 13

def self.scrape_movie_page(index) # Scrapes movie webpage and creates hash of movie attributes
  attributes = {}
  movie_page = Nokogiri::HTML(open("https://www.rottentomatoes.com/#{BoxOffice::Movie.all[index].link}"))

  # Scraping synopsis and cast
  movie_synopsis = movie_page.css("div#movieSynopsis").text.strip
  movie_cast = movie_page.css("div.castSection a span").text.gsub(/^\s*/, "").gsub(/\n/, ", ")

  # Scraping critic and audience scores
  if movie_page.css("span.meter-value")[0].nil?
    movie_critic_score = "No Score Yet"
  else
    movie_critic_score = movie_page.css("span.meter-value")[0].text
  end

  if movie_page.css("div.audience-score.meter").text.strip == "No Score Yet"
    movie_audience_score = "No Score Yet"
  else
    movie_audience_score = movie_page.css("div.audience-score.meter").text.split[0]
  end

  # Scraping basic movie info and storing it in a hash
  info_keys = []
  info_values = []
  movie_page.css("ul.content-meta.info div.meta-label.subtle").each { |key| info_keys << key.text.strip }
  movie_page.css("ul.content-meta.info div.meta-value").each { |value| info_values << value.text.gsub(/\n\s*/, "").strip }
  info_hash = [info_keys, info_values].transpose.to_h

  # Combining all scraped info into one hash called 'attributes'
  info_hash.each do |key, value|
    case key
    when "Rating:"
      attributes[:rating] = value
    when "Genre:"
      attributes[:genres] = value
    when "Directed By:"
      attributes[:director] = value
    when "Written By:"
      attributes[:writers] = value
    when "In Theaters:"
      attributes[:release_date] = value
    when "Runtime:"
      attributes[:runtime] = value
    when "Studio:"
      attributes[:studio] = value
    end
   end

  attributes[:synopsis] = movie_synopsis
  attributes[:critic_score] = movie_critic_score
  attributes[:audience_score] = movie_audience_score
  attributes[:cast] = movie_cast

  attributes
end