Search for movies and TV Shows

• POST /api/title
  • Add a new Title to the database
  • Creates an appropriate Title node and associated Person nodes (for the directors, stars, etc.)

Prerequisites:

• Install the dependencies with pipenv install --dev

1. Start the neo4j Docker Container
   • docker run --name neo4j-container -v $PWD/neo4j/data:/data -v $PWD/neo4j/logs:/logs --env NEO4J_AUTH="neo4j/pass" -p 7474:7474 -p 7687:7687 --rm neo4j:3.5.3
2. Start the application
   • pipenv run python -m title_explorer

In order to create new Title entries in the database:

1. Create a Title object according to the title-object definition found in schema.json
2. POST to the /api/title endpoint.
3. If the json-body conforms to the json-schema, then the title will automatically be added to the neo4j database
   • In case of a data-validation failure, a 400 error is returned, with a description of what went wrong

An example graph can be generated by running the neo4j instance along with the title_explorer server, and running the python file in resources/python/example_graph

This will create a graph of the top Movies and TV Shows, based on user reviews.

A nice visualization can then be found at localhost:7474.

Use neo4j as the username and pass as the password, and run the cypher query:

• MATCH (n1)-[r]->(n2) RETURN r, n1, n2

The relationships are from Person to Title:

• Paul Rudd stars_in Ant-Man
• Joe Russo directed Avengers: Infinity War

There is an ommited python module scraper_routes, that holds routes that when called, result in title-explorer scraping/collecting Title information, and storing the results in the neo4j instance.

• Get acquainted with asyncio in Python
• Become familiar with webscraping using BeautifulSoup
• Store data in a graph database