MovieLens 100K Posters

Links to posters of movies in the MovieLens 100K dataset. The links were scraped from IMDb. The posters are mapped to the movie_id in the dataset. The IMDB URLs of the movies are also present.

Description of files

• movie_poster.csv: The movie_id to poster URL mapping.
• movie_poster.py: The script used for scraping the poster URLs.
• movie_url.csv: The movie_id to IMDb URL mapping.
• movie_url.py: The script used for scraping the IMDb URLs.
• u.item.txt: Movie details from the dataset. The full dataset and its details can be found here.

Running it yourself

You will need Python 3 and Beautiful Soup 4.

• Install Beautiful Soup: pip install beautifulsoup4
• Scrape IMDb URLs: python3 movie_url.py
• Scrape poster URLs: python3 movie_poster.py