HowsTheMovie

Scrapes movie/TV Series details from IMDB and analyses twitter sentiments about the same.

• Front end src : https://github.com/it-worked-yesterday/HowsTheMovie-FrontEnd
• Website : http://howsthemovie.pytch.in

This module creates 2 rest apis based on Python/Flask open for GET requests:

1. getmoviedetails : Scrapes information from IMDB about a movie/TV series. Returns movie object or None if nothing is found.
2. gettwittersentiments : Fetches tweets with the above movie/TV series title in hashtag and analyses the sentiments. (Pos/Neg/Neutal)

Getting Twitter access tokens

• Login to apps.twitter.com with your twitter credentials
• Create a new twitter app
• Generate access tokens Refer to twitter's page for more.

Running locally (with Python3)

Clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/it-worked-yesterday/HowsTheMovie-FrontEnd.git

Now create the virtualenv of Python3.6 using

$ conda create --name howsTheMovie python=3

Activate the environment and install requirements using pip, navigate to linkedin folder which have spider as a subfolder and start the bot

$ source activate howsTheMovie
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Set Consumer and Access keys

• open confg/config.ini
• replace the consumer and access keys with ones generated at apps.twitter.com

Run the flask app

$ export FLASK_APP=index.py
$ export FLASK_DEBUG=1
$ python -m flask run

The flask server will create 2 Rest endpoints locally, which you can :

1. 0.0.0.0:5000/howsthemovie/getmoviedetails?movie_name=
2. 0.0.0.0:5000/howsthemovie/gettwittersentiments?hashtag=

NOTE When hosting to a server be sure to add app.run(host=<host>, port=<port>) to index.py file as per the hosting service documentation.