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Use Requests and Beautiful Soup to Scrap for data
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IMDB_Scrapping_01.py
__author__ = 'kumar'
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
page = requests.get('http://www.imdb.com/chart/?ref_=nv_ch_cht_2%3F')
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.text)
for x in soup.find_all('td', {"class": "ratingColumn"}):
y = x.find_all('span')
try:
print y[0].text
except IndexError:
pass
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