def scrape_top_250(url):
"""
Scrape the IMDB top 250 movies index page.
Args:
url: pattern.web.URL instance pointing to the top 250 index page
Returns:
A list of strings, where each string is the URL to a movie's page on
IMDB, note that these URLS must be absolute (i.e. include the http
part, the domain part and the path part).
"""
movie_urls = []
dom = DOM(url.download(cached=True))
allurls = dom.get_elements_by_classname("titleColumn")
for oneurl in allurls:
link = abs(oneurl[1].attrs.get("href", ""), base=url.redirect or url.string)
movie_urls.append(link)
# return the list of URLs of each movie's page on IMDB
return movie_urls
