Scraping an Online Movie Website

Darrius Serrant

Mis à jour:juin 10, 2025

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Let’s start another example from a real-world website. We'll choose to scrape a movie website.

Let’s add a new class and name it “MovieScraper”:

Now let’s take a look at the site that we will scrape:

This is part of the homepage HTML we see on the website:

<div id="movie-featured" class="movies-list movies-list-full tab-pane in fade active">
    <div data-movie-id="20746" class="ml-item">
        <a href="https://website.com/film/king-arthur-legend-of-the-sword-20746/">
            <span class="mli-quality">CAM</span>
            <img data-original="https://img.gocdn.online/2017/05/16/poster/2116d6719c710eabe83b377463230fbe-king-arthur-legend-of-the-sword.jpg" 
                 class="lazy thumb mli-thumb" alt="King Arthur: Legend of the Sword"
                 src="https://img.gocdn.online/2017/05/16/poster/2116d6719c710eabe83b377463230fbe-king-arthur-legend-of-the-sword.jpg" 
                 style="display: inline-block;">
            <span class="mli-info"><h2>King Arthur: Legend of the Sword</h2></span>
        </a>
    </div>
    <div data-movie-id="20724" class="ml-item">
        <a href="https://website.com/film/snatched-20724/">
            <span class="mli-quality">CAM</span>
            <img data-original="https://img.gocdn.online/2017/05/16/poster/5ef66403dc331009bdb5aa37cfe819ba-snatched.jpg" 
                 class="lazy thumb mli-thumb" alt="Snatched" 
                 src="https://img.gocdn.online/2017/05/16/poster/5ef66403dc331009bdb5aa37cfe819ba-snatched.jpg" 
                 style="display: inline-block;">
            <span class="mli-info"><h2>Snatched</h2></span>
        </a>
    </div>
</div>

<div id="movie-featured" class="movies-list movies-list-full tab-pane in fade active">
    <div data-movie-id="20746" class="ml-item">
        <a href="https://website.com/film/king-arthur-legend-of-the-sword-20746/">
            <span class="mli-quality">CAM</span>
            <img data-original="https://img.gocdn.online/2017/05/16/poster/2116d6719c710eabe83b377463230fbe-king-arthur-legend-of-the-sword.jpg" 
                 class="lazy thumb mli-thumb" alt="King Arthur: Legend of the Sword"
                 src="https://img.gocdn.online/2017/05/16/poster/2116d6719c710eabe83b377463230fbe-king-arthur-legend-of-the-sword.jpg" 
                 style="display: inline-block;">
            <span class="mli-info"><h2>King Arthur: Legend of the Sword</h2></span>
        </a>
    </div>
    <div data-movie-id="20724" class="ml-item">
        <a href="https://website.com/film/snatched-20724/">
            <span class="mli-quality">CAM</span>
            <img data-original="https://img.gocdn.online/2017/05/16/poster/5ef66403dc331009bdb5aa37cfe819ba-snatched.jpg" 
                 class="lazy thumb mli-thumb" alt="Snatched" 
                 src="https://img.gocdn.online/2017/05/16/poster/5ef66403dc331009bdb5aa37cfe819ba-snatched.jpg" 
                 style="display: inline-block;">
            <span class="mli-info"><h2>Snatched</h2></span>
        </a>
    </div>
</div>

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As we can see, we have a movie ID, title, and link to a detailed page.

Let’s start to scrape this set of data:

public class MovieScraper : WebScraper
{
    public override void Init()
    {
        // Initialize scraper settings
        License.LicenseKey = "LicenseKey";
        this.LoggingLevel = WebScraper.LogLevel.All;
        this.WorkingDirectory = AppSetting.GetAppRoot() + @"\MovieSample\Output\";

        // Request homepage content for scraping
        this.Request("www.website.com", Parse);
    }

    public override void Parse(Response response)
    {
        // Iterate over each movie div within the featured movie section
        foreach (var div in response.Css("#movie-featured > div"))
        {
            if (div.Attributes["class"] != "clearfix")
            {
                var movieId = Convert.ToInt32(div.GetAttribute("data-movie-id"));
                var link = div.Css("a")[0];
                var movieTitle = link.TextContentClean;

                // Scrape and store movie data as key-value pairs
                Scrape(new ScrapedData() 
                { 
                    { "MovieId", movieId },
                    { "MovieTitle", movieTitle }
                }, "Movie.Jsonl");
            }
        }           
    }
}

public class MovieScraper : WebScraper
{
    public override void Init()
    {
        // Initialize scraper settings
        License.LicenseKey = "LicenseKey";
        this.LoggingLevel = WebScraper.LogLevel.All;
        this.WorkingDirectory = AppSetting.GetAppRoot() + @"\MovieSample\Output\";

        // Request homepage content for scraping
        this.Request("www.website.com", Parse);
    }

    public override void Parse(Response response)
    {
        // Iterate over each movie div within the featured movie section
        foreach (var div in response.Css("#movie-featured > div"))
        {
            if (div.Attributes["class"] != "clearfix")
            {
                var movieId = Convert.ToInt32(div.GetAttribute("data-movie-id"));
                var link = div.Css("a")[0];
                var movieTitle = link.TextContentClean;

                // Scrape and store movie data as key-value pairs
                Scrape(new ScrapedData() 
                { 
                    { "MovieId", movieId },
                    { "MovieTitle", movieTitle }
                }, "Movie.Jsonl");
            }
        }           
    }
}

Public Class MovieScraper
	Inherits WebScraper

	Public Overrides Sub Init()
		' Initialize scraper settings
		License.LicenseKey = "LicenseKey"
		Me.LoggingLevel = WebScraper.LogLevel.All
		Me.WorkingDirectory = AppSetting.GetAppRoot() & "\MovieSample\Output\"

		' Request homepage content for scraping
		Me.Request("www.website.com", AddressOf Parse)
	End Sub

	Public Overrides Sub Parse(ByVal response As Response)
		' Iterate over each movie div within the featured movie section
		For Each div In response.Css("#movie-featured > div")
			If div.Attributes("class") <> "clearfix" Then
				Dim movieId = Convert.ToInt32(div.GetAttribute("data-movie-id"))
				Dim link = div.Css("a")(0)
				Dim movieTitle = link.TextContentClean

				' Scrape and store movie data as key-value pairs
				Scrape(New ScrapedData() From {
					{ "MovieId", movieId },
					{ "MovieTitle", movieTitle }
				},
				"Movie.Jsonl")
			End If
		Next div
	End Sub
End Class

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What’s new in this code?

The Working Directory property is used to set the main working directory for all scraped data and its related files.

Let's do more.

What if we need to build typed objects that will hold scraped data in formatted objects?

Let’s implement a Movie class that will hold our formatted data:

public class Movie
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; }
    public string URL { get; set; }
}

public class Movie
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; }
    public string URL { get; set; }
}

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Now we will update our code:

public class MovieScraper : WebScraper
{
    public override void Init()
    {
        // Initialize scraper settings
        License.LicenseKey = "LicenseKey";
        this.LoggingLevel = WebScraper.LogLevel.All;
        this.WorkingDirectory = AppSetting.GetAppRoot() + @"\MovieSample\Output\";

        // Request homepage content for scraping
        this.Request("https://website.com/", Parse);
    }

    public override void Parse(Response response)
    {
        // Iterate over each movie div within the featured movie section
        foreach (var div in response.Css("#movie-featured > div"))
        {
            if (div.Attributes["class"] != "clearfix")
            {
                var movie = new Movie
                {
                    Id = Convert.ToInt32(div.GetAttribute("data-movie-id"))
                };

                var link = div.Css("a")[0];
                movie.Title = link.TextContentClean;
                movie.URL = link.Attributes["href"];

                // Scrape and store movie object
                Scrape(movie, "Movie.Jsonl");
            }
        }
    }
}

public class MovieScraper : WebScraper
{
    public override void Init()
    {
        // Initialize scraper settings
        License.LicenseKey = "LicenseKey";
        this.LoggingLevel = WebScraper.LogLevel.All;
        this.WorkingDirectory = AppSetting.GetAppRoot() + @"\MovieSample\Output\";

        // Request homepage content for scraping
        this.Request("https://website.com/", Parse);
    }

    public override void Parse(Response response)
    {
        // Iterate over each movie div within the featured movie section
        foreach (var div in response.Css("#movie-featured > div"))
        {
            if (div.Attributes["class"] != "clearfix")
            {
                var movie = new Movie
                {
                    Id = Convert.ToInt32(div.GetAttribute("data-movie-id"))
                };

                var link = div.Css("a")[0];
                movie.Title = link.TextContentClean;
                movie.URL = link.Attributes["href"];

                // Scrape and store movie object
                Scrape(movie, "Movie.Jsonl");
            }
        }
    }
}

Public Class MovieScraper
	Inherits WebScraper

	Public Overrides Sub Init()
		' Initialize scraper settings
		License.LicenseKey = "LicenseKey"
		Me.LoggingLevel = WebScraper.LogLevel.All
		Me.WorkingDirectory = AppSetting.GetAppRoot() & "\MovieSample\Output\"

		' Request homepage content for scraping
		Me.Request("https://website.com/", AddressOf Parse)
	End Sub

	Public Overrides Sub Parse(ByVal response As Response)
		' Iterate over each movie div within the featured movie section
		For Each div In response.Css("#movie-featured > div")
			If div.Attributes("class") <> "clearfix" Then
				Dim movie As New Movie With {.Id = Convert.ToInt32(div.GetAttribute("data-movie-id"))}

				Dim link = div.Css("a")(0)
				movie.Title = link.TextContentClean
				movie.URL = link.Attributes("href")

				' Scrape and store movie object
				Scrape(movie, "Movie.Jsonl")
			End If
		Next div
	End Sub
End Class

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What’s new?

We implemented a Movie class to hold our scraped data.
We pass movie objects to the Scrape method which understands our format and saves it in a defined manner as shown in the image below:

Let’s start scraping a more detailed page.

The Movie Page looks like this:

<div class="mvi-content">
    <div class="thumb mvic-thumb" 
         style="background-image: url(https://img.gocdn.online/2017/04/28/poster/5a08e94ba02118f22dc30f298c603210-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2.jpg);"></div>
    <div class="mvic-desc">
        <h3>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2</h3>        
        <div class="desc">
            Set to the backdrop of Awesome Mixtape #2, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues the team's adventures as they travel throughout the cosmos to help Peter Quill learn more about his true parentage.
        </div>
        <div class="mvic-info">
            <div class="mvici-left">
                <p>
                    <strong>Genre: </strong>
                    <a href="https://Domain/genre/action/" title="Action">Action</a>,
                    <a href="https://Domain/genre/adventure/" title="Adventure">Adventure</a>,
                    <a href="https://Domain/genre/sci-fi/" title="Sci-Fi">Sci-Fi</a>
                </p>
                <p>
                    <strong>Actor: </strong>
                    <a target="_blank" href="https://Domain/actor/chris-pratt" title="Chris Pratt">Chris Pratt</a>,
                    <a target="_blank" href="https://Domain/actor/-zoe-saldana" title="Zoe Saldana">Zoe Saldana</a>,
                    <a target="_blank" href="https://Domain/actor/-dave-bautista-" title="Dave Bautista">Dave Bautista</a>
                </p>
                <p>
                    <strong>Director: </strong>
                    <a href="#" title="James Gunn">James Gunn</a>
                </p>
                <p>
                    <strong>Country: </strong>
                    <a href="https://Domain/country/us" title="United States">United States</a>
                </p>
            </div>
            <div class="mvici-right">
                <p><strong>Duration:</strong> 136 min</p>
                <p><strong>Quality:</strong> <span class="quality">CAM</span></p>
                <p><strong>Release:</strong> 2017</p>
                <p><strong>IMDb:</strong> 8.3</p>
            </div>
            <div class="clearfix"></div>
        </div>
        <div class="clearfix"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="clearfix"></div>
</div>

<div class="mvi-content">
    <div class="thumb mvic-thumb" 
         style="background-image: url(https://img.gocdn.online/2017/04/28/poster/5a08e94ba02118f22dc30f298c603210-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2.jpg);"></div>
    <div class="mvic-desc">
        <h3>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2</h3>        
        <div class="desc">
            Set to the backdrop of Awesome Mixtape #2, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues the team's adventures as they travel throughout the cosmos to help Peter Quill learn more about his true parentage.
        </div>
        <div class="mvic-info">
            <div class="mvici-left">
                <p>
                    <strong>Genre: </strong>
                    <a href="https://Domain/genre/action/" title="Action">Action</a>,
                    <a href="https://Domain/genre/adventure/" title="Adventure">Adventure</a>,
                    <a href="https://Domain/genre/sci-fi/" title="Sci-Fi">Sci-Fi</a>
                </p>
                <p>
                    <strong>Actor: </strong>
                    <a target="_blank" href="https://Domain/actor/chris-pratt" title="Chris Pratt">Chris Pratt</a>,
                    <a target="_blank" href="https://Domain/actor/-zoe-saldana" title="Zoe Saldana">Zoe Saldana</a>,
                    <a target="_blank" href="https://Domain/actor/-dave-bautista-" title="Dave Bautista">Dave Bautista</a>
                </p>
                <p>
                    <strong>Director: </strong>
                    <a href="#" title="James Gunn">James Gunn</a>
                </p>
                <p>
                    <strong>Country: </strong>
                    <a href="https://Domain/country/us" title="United States">United States</a>
                </p>
            </div>
            <div class="mvici-right">
                <p><strong>Duration:</strong> 136 min</p>
                <p><strong>Quality:</strong> <span class="quality">CAM</span></p>
                <p><strong>Release:</strong> 2017</p>
                <p><strong>IMDb:</strong> 8.3</p>
            </div>
            <div class="clearfix"></div>
        </div>
        <div class="clearfix"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="clearfix"></div>
</div>

HTML

We can extend our Movie class with new properties (Description, Genre, Actor, Director, Country, Duration, IMDb Score) but we’ll use (Description, Genre, Actor) only for our sample.

using System.Collections.Generic;

public class Movie
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; }
    public string URL { get; set; }
    public string Description { get; set; }
    public List<string> Genre { get; set; }
    public List<string> Actor { get; set; }
}

using System.Collections.Generic;

public class Movie
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; }
    public string URL { get; set; }
    public string Description { get; set; }
    public List<string> Genre { get; set; }
    public List<string> Actor { get; set; }
}

Imports System.Collections.Generic

Public Class Movie
	Public Property Id() As Integer
	Public Property Title() As String
	Public Property URL() As String
	Public Property Description() As String
	Public Property Genre() As List(Of String)
	Public Property Actor() As List(Of String)
End Class

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Now we’ll navigate to the detailed page to scrape it.

IronWebScraper enables you to add more to the scrape function to scrape different types of page formats.

As we can see here:

public class MovieScraper : WebScraper
{
    public override void Init()
    {
        // Initialize scraper settings
        License.LicenseKey = "LicenseKey";
        this.LoggingLevel = WebScraper.LogLevel.All;
        this.WorkingDirectory = AppSetting.GetAppRoot() + @"\MovieSample\Output\";

        // Request homepage content for scraping
        this.Request("https://domain/", Parse);
    }

    public override void Parse(Response response)
    {
        // Iterate over each movie div within the featured movie section
        foreach (var div in response.Css("#movie-featured > div"))
        {
            if (div.Attributes["class"] != "clearfix")
            {
                var movie = new Movie
                {
                    Id = Convert.ToInt32(div.GetAttribute("data-movie-id"))
                };

                var link = div.Css("a")[0];
                movie.Title = link.TextContentClean;
                movie.URL = link.Attributes["href"];

                // Request detailed page
                this.Request(movie.URL, ParseDetails, new MetaData() { { "movie", movie } });
            }
        }           
    }

    public void ParseDetails(Response response)
    {
        // Retrieve movie object from metadata
        var movie = response.MetaData.Get<Movie>("movie");
        var div = response.Css("div.mvic-desc")[0];

        // Extract description
        movie.Description = div.Css("div.desc")[0].TextContentClean;

        // Extract genres
        movie.Genre = new List<string>(); // Initialize genre list
        foreach(var genre in div.Css("div > p > a"))
        {
            movie.Genre.Add(genre.TextContentClean);
        }

        // Extract actors
        movie.Actor = new List<string>(); // Initialize actor list
        foreach (var actor in div.Css("div > p:nth-child(2) > a"))
        {
            movie.Actor.Add(actor.TextContentClean);
        }

        // Scrape and store detailed movie data
        Scrape(movie, "Movie.Jsonl");
    }
}

public class MovieScraper : WebScraper
{
    public override void Init()
    {
        // Initialize scraper settings
        License.LicenseKey = "LicenseKey";
        this.LoggingLevel = WebScraper.LogLevel.All;
        this.WorkingDirectory = AppSetting.GetAppRoot() + @"\MovieSample\Output\";

        // Request homepage content for scraping
        this.Request("https://domain/", Parse);
    }

    public override void Parse(Response response)
    {
        // Iterate over each movie div within the featured movie section
        foreach (var div in response.Css("#movie-featured > div"))
        {
            if (div.Attributes["class"] != "clearfix")
            {
                var movie = new Movie
                {
                    Id = Convert.ToInt32(div.GetAttribute("data-movie-id"))
                };

                var link = div.Css("a")[0];
                movie.Title = link.TextContentClean;
                movie.URL = link.Attributes["href"];

                // Request detailed page
                this.Request(movie.URL, ParseDetails, new MetaData() { { "movie", movie } });
            }
        }           
    }

    public void ParseDetails(Response response)
    {
        // Retrieve movie object from metadata
        var movie = response.MetaData.Get<Movie>("movie");
        var div = response.Css("div.mvic-desc")[0];

        // Extract description
        movie.Description = div.Css("div.desc")[0].TextContentClean;

        // Extract genres
        movie.Genre = new List<string>(); // Initialize genre list
        foreach(var genre in div.Css("div > p > a"))
        {
            movie.Genre.Add(genre.TextContentClean);
        }

        // Extract actors
        movie.Actor = new List<string>(); // Initialize actor list
        foreach (var actor in div.Css("div > p:nth-child(2) > a"))
        {
            movie.Actor.Add(actor.TextContentClean);
        }

        // Scrape and store detailed movie data
        Scrape(movie, "Movie.Jsonl");
    }
}

Public Class MovieScraper
	Inherits WebScraper

	Public Overrides Sub Init()
		' Initialize scraper settings
		License.LicenseKey = "LicenseKey"
		Me.LoggingLevel = WebScraper.LogLevel.All
		Me.WorkingDirectory = AppSetting.GetAppRoot() & "\MovieSample\Output\"

		' Request homepage content for scraping
		Me.Request("https://domain/", AddressOf Parse)
	End Sub

	Public Overrides Sub Parse(ByVal response As Response)
		' Iterate over each movie div within the featured movie section
		For Each div In response.Css("#movie-featured > div")
			If div.Attributes("class") <> "clearfix" Then
				Dim movie As New Movie With {.Id = Convert.ToInt32(div.GetAttribute("data-movie-id"))}

				Dim link = div.Css("a")(0)
				movie.Title = link.TextContentClean
				movie.URL = link.Attributes("href")

				' Request detailed page
				Me.Request(movie.URL, AddressOf ParseDetails, New MetaData() From {
					{ "movie", movie }
				})
			End If
		Next div
	End Sub

	Public Sub ParseDetails(ByVal response As Response)
		' Retrieve movie object from metadata
		Dim movie = response.MetaData.Get(Of Movie)("movie")
		Dim div = response.Css("div.mvic-desc")(0)

		' Extract description
		movie.Description = div.Css("div.desc")(0).TextContentClean

		' Extract genres
		movie.Genre = New List(Of String)() ' Initialize genre list
		For Each genre In div.Css("div > p > a")
			movie.Genre.Add(genre.TextContentClean)
		Next genre

		' Extract actors
		movie.Actor = New List(Of String)() ' Initialize actor list
		For Each actor In div.Css("div > p:nth-child(2) > a")
			movie.Actor.Add(actor.TextContentClean)
		Next actor

		' Scrape and store detailed movie data
		Scrape(movie, "Movie.Jsonl")
	End Sub
End Class

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What’s new?

We can add scrape functions (e.g., ParseDetails) to scrape detailed pages.
We moved the Scrape function that generates our file to the new function.
We used the IronWebScraper feature (MetaData) to pass our movie object to the new scrape function.
We scraped the page and saved our movie object data to a file.

Questions Fréquemment Posées

Comment puis-je extraire des données d'un site Web de films en ligne ?

Vous pouvez utiliser IronWebScraper pour extraire des données d'un site Web de films en ligne. Commencez par créer une classe 'MovieScraper' qui configure les paramètres de l'extracteur et demande le contenu de la page d'accueil pour l'extraction.

Quelle est la fonction de la classe 'Movie' dans le web scraping ?

Dans IronWebScraper, la classe 'Movie' est utilisée pour structurer et stocker les données extraites sous forme d'objets, avec des propriétés telles que Id, Titre, URL, Description, Genre et Acteur, assurant une gestion organisée des données.

Comment naviguer et extraire des informations détaillées sur les films ?

IronWebScraper vous permet de mettre en place une fonction 'ParseDetails' pour accéder aux pages détaillées des films et extraire des informations supplémentaires, telles que des descriptions, des genres et des acteurs.

Quel rôle joue la fonction 'MetaData' dans le web scraping ?

La fonction 'MetaData' d'IronWebScraper est cruciale pour le transfert de données entre les fonctions d'extraction, comme passer des objets films à la fonction 'ParseDetails' pour un traitement ultérieur.

Comment gérez-vous différents formats de page lors de l'extraction ?

Avec IronWebScraper, vous pouvez créer plusieurs fonctions d'extraction pour gérer divers formats de page et extraire efficacement une large gamme de données.

Comment pouvez-vous extraire des IDs et des titres de films en utilisant IronWebScraper ?

Vous pouvez itérer sur chaque div de film dans la section des films en vedette dans IronWebScraper pour extraire les IDs et les titres des films en accédant aux attributs de données et au contenu textuel.

Quelle est l'importance de la journalisation dans les paramètres de l'extracteur ?

La propriété 'LoggingLevel' d'IronWebScraper vous permet de définir la verbosité des sorties de journal, aidant à surveiller et à résoudre efficacement le processus d'extraction.

Comment fonctionne un répertoire de travail dans un projet de web scraping ?

Le répertoire de travail dans IronWebScraper est destiné à stocker toutes les données extraites et les fichiers associés, centralisant le processus de gestion des données.

IronWebScraper peut-il être utilisé pour automatiser des tâches d'extraction de données ?

Oui, IronWebScraper est conçu pour automatiser les tâches d'extraction de données en permettant aux utilisateurs de créer des classes et des méthodes pour extraire et stocker systématiquement des données des pages Web.

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