Custom movie parser for TheMovieChannel!

This is a unique problem for a unique individual. There are two solutions catalogued in this repo:

docxcleaner.py

Built to return a (semi) clean list of movies from an originally hand-crafted, botique, docx.

main.py

Built to grab the videos shown today via TMC.com for recording. The movies are then compared to the clean list of movies returning a final list of movies to record. This is hosted on Amazon AWS using CRON to run main.py daily and notifies the user via email.

Sample image:

An example of what the email the user receives everyday.

Quickstart

Ensure python 3 is installed
python3 -m virtualenv
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 main.py

To get the list of cleaned movies from the docx: Download the appropriate docx then:

python3 docxcleaner.py

This will be exported as cleanmovies.json and used in main.py. This repository does not include token.json and credentials.json from Gmail's SMTP authentication.

Technologies

• Beautifulsoup4 - Webscraping
• Python-Docx - Parsing the .doc file
• EZGmail - Gmail SMTP

Cloud

Amazon Debian Web Server using EC2

Acknowledgements

Phil for mentoring and guiding me for my first large project.