Building a Command-Line IMDB Top 100 Movie Recommender with Python

Trent Glimp — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 21:19:02 +0000

Hey fellow developers! 👋

I wanted to share a fun weekend project I built that combines my love for coding and movies: Top100Movies - a Python CLI tool that helps you discover great films from IMDB's Top 100 list!

The Problem

We've all been there - scrolling endlessly through streaming services, unable to decide what to watch. With so many options, decision paralysis is real! I wanted a simple way to filter through critically acclaimed movies based on my preferences, without the distractions of a full streaming platform.

The Solution

Top100Movies is a command-line application that:

Scrapes the current IMDB Top 100 movies list
Lets you filter these movies by multiple criteria
Displays clean, formatted movie information

How It Works

The project has three main components:

1. Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup

Using Python's requests and BeautifulSoup libraries, I scrape IMDB's Top 100 list to get up-to-date information:

def scrape_top_100_movies():
    one_fifty_url = "https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?groups=top_100&sort=user_rating,desc"
    # More scraping code...
    return movies

2. Movie Class for Data Management

A simple but effective class that stores all relevant movie information and handles formatting:

class Movie:
    def __init__(self, rank, title, year, rating, runtime, maturity, genre_list):
        self.rank = int(rank)
        self.title = title
        # More attributes...

3. Interactive User Interface

The CLI provides filtering options including:

Year or decade
Maturity rating
Genre
Rank in Top 100
Runtime
IMDB rating

What I Learned

This project taught me several valuable lessons:

Web scraping techniques and best practices
Object-oriented design for data representation
Creating intuitive command-line interfaces
Managing user input validation

Try It Yourself!

You can check out the full project on GitHub.

Installation is simple:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/Top100Movies.git
cd Top100Movies
pip install requests beautifulsoup4
python main.py

Future Improvements

Would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions in the comments! What other features would make this more useful to you?

Happy coding (and movie watching)! 🍿🎬

My Wordle Knock-Off

Trent Glimp — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:01:24 +0000

As I'm about to start my freshman year of college in just over a month now, I decided that I want to polish up my CS skills I've learned from high school. I decided to start Codecademy's "Computer Science Career Path" which had me make a OOP terminal based game. Lucky for me, I had done this as a project my sophomore year in a CS class. The course told me to save the project to GitHub and then write a blog post for it, so why not?

My game is called Octodle because it's an eight-letter word game instead of the standard 5. It updates every day just like the original so have fun coming back and playing it every day if you want to!

Trent-Glimp / OctodleGameProj

Terminal-based Wordle clone made to learn OOP in high school

Octodle

Octodle is a terminal-based word-guessing game inspired by Wordle, but with an eight-letter challenge. Test your vocabulary and deduction skills as you try to guess the daily word within six attempts.

About the Game

Octodle presents players with a new eight-letter word challenge every day. You have six attempts to guess the correct word, with feedback provided after each guess to help narrow down the possibilities.

Features

Daily Word Challenge: A new eight-letter word is selected each day based on the date
Intelligent Feedback: After each guess, you'll see:
- Letters placed in their correct positions
- A list of all correct letters that appear in the target word
Word Validation: Only valid eight-letter words are accepted as guesses
Simple Terminal Interface: Clean, easy-to-use command-line gameplay

How to Play

Run the game in your terminal
Enter your eight-letter guess
Receive feedback on your guess
- Correctly positioned letters…

View on GitHub

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