Movie-Success-Predictor

Members of this project :

• Mayukh Bhowmick
• Rounak Hazra
• Abesh Biswas

Python Libraries used for making this project :

• BeautifulSoap
• requests
• PIL (Python Imaging Library)
• Tkinter

How does it work?

It asks for movie name from the user along with release year (optional)

Using Public API, we fetch:

• Release Year
• Cast List
• Director Name
• Movie Title

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url = "http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=" + {api_key} + "&t=" + {Movie_Name} + "&y=" + {Release_Year} + "&plot=short"
response = requests.get(url)
movie_data = response.json()

From the cast list, top 5 cast are chosen and stored in a list : (cast_list = [ ])

For every actor/actress in cast_list variable:

• We check IMDB Ratings of at least 5 movies performed by that actor/actress.
• Store all the scores in list variable score.
• Extract best 3 scores from the score list and make an average

After average score of every cast has been acquired,
We choose the best 3 cast out of 5

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Using the same above process, we fetch the average rating of director

best_actor_scores : list of average scores of best 3 cast out of 5

p = gd = ok = flop = 0
print('Average imdb score of best 3 chosen out of 5 actors : ')
for i in best_actor_scores:
    print('%.2f' % i, end=" ")
    if 7.8 <= i:
        # p counts no. of good actors
        p = p + 1
    elif 7 < i < 7.8:
        gd = gd + 1
    elif 6 <= i <= 7:
        # ok counts no. of average actors
        ok = ok + 1
    elif i < 6:
        # flop counts no. of flop actors
        flop = flop + 1

The above code is used to a keep a track of :

• No. of popular actors (p)
• No. of good actors (gd)
• No. of average actors (ok)
• No. of flop actors (flop)

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This data helps us to judge the movie based on cast popularity

dp = dok = dflop = 0
i = director_avg
if 7 <= i:
    dp =  1
elif 6 <= i < 7:
    dok = 1
else:
    dflop = 1

The above code is for judging the popularity of director :

• Popular / Good Director (dp)
• Average Director (dok)
• Flop Director (dflop)

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OMDb API :

For IMDB Rating, Release Year, Director Name, movie title

TMDB :

• to extract cast list of the movie searched by the user
• To extract person_id and movie_id to get more info about them
• To extract the list of movies performed by a director

IMDB :

To extract the list of movies performed by an actor / actress
by webscraping IMDB website using BeautifulSoap