This package allows users to easily scrape movie data from the internet. By only supplying a movie title, users can currently retrieve the movie description, director, lead cast, genre, runtime, IMDB user rating, and Metacritic rating. The package can currently be installed using the following code:
devtools::install_github("markroepke/flxr")Here is an example of flxr in use:
# Get movie director
flx_mov_director("The Godfather")
#> Returning movie director for The Godfather:
#> [1] "Francis Ford Coppola"The other functions in flxr are:
flx_mov_desc()flx_mov_genre()flx_mov_lead_cast()flx_mov_mc_rtg()flx_mov_runtime()flx_mov_user_rtg()
There is also wrapper function, flx_mov_details(), to easily run all flxr functions:
# Get movie information
flx_mov_details("The Godfather")
#> # A tibble: 1 x 8
#> movie description genre director lead_cast runtime user_rating
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <list> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 The G~ The aging patriarch~ Crime Francis~ <chr [3]> 175. 9.20
#> # ... with 1 more variable: metacritic_rating <dbl>