Scraping BoM

This repo contains scripts to get information from the BoM website.

Currently we scrape the following information:

• Main Movie Characteristics from the summary page
• Box Office at the daily, weekly and weekend frequencies from USA

Ways to Execute

Get Everything:

If you want all information run the following:

make getEverything

Get Movie Characteristics:

make getCharacteristics

Get All Box Office information

Collects all box office frequencies for US market

make getAllBoxOffice

Get Daily Box Office information

Collects all box office frequencies for US market

make getDailyBoxOffice

Get Weekly Box Office information

Collects all box office frequencies for US market

make getWeeklyBoxOffice

Get Weekend Box Office information

Collects all box office frequencies for US market

make getWeekendBoxOffice

To Do:

• Get Foreign Box Office by country - week

Other Info:

• Assumes that you have make installed on your machine - default for Unix system
• Tested using Python 3.5.2 (64bit)