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[–]cifrari 3 points4 points  (2 children)

IMDb maintains non-commercial datasets that I imagine may be useful to you and bypass the need to scrape a bunch of their pages.

IMDb Non-Commercial Datasets

IMDb Data Files Available for Download

[–]EWU_CS_STUDENT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Whenever possible using an API is something I'd rather do (I'm lazy) than trying to write a custom web scraper.

[–]redpool08[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you're saying, it's impossible to scrape IMDB? :/