Scraping IMDb with JavaScript#

You’ll learn how to scrape the IMDb Top 250 movies directly in the browser using JavaScript on the Chrome DevTools, covering:

• Access Developer Tools: Use F12 or right-click > Inspect to open developer tools in Chrome or Edge.
• Inspect Elements: Identify and inspect HTML elements using the Elements tab.
• Query Selectors: Use document.querySelectorAll and document.querySelector to find elements by CSS class.
• Extract Text Content: Retrieve text content from elements using JavaScript.
• Functional Programming: Apply map and arrow functions for concise data processing.
• Data Structuring: Collect and format data into an array of arrays.
• Copying Data: Use the copy function to transfer data to the clipboard.
• Convert to Spreadsheet: Use online tools to convert JSON data to CSV or Excel format.
• Text Manipulation: Perform text splitting and cleaning in Excel for final data formatting.

Here are links and references:

• IMDB Top 250 movies
• Learn about Chrome Devtools