• Shauna Kimura

• Open project directory in Terminal
• Download Beautiful Soup with command 'pip3 install bs4'
• Download LXML with command 'pip3 install lxml'
• Enter command 'g++ -std=c++1y main.cpp' to compile C++ project.
• Enter command './a.out' to execute program.
• Enter the title of a TV show or movie when prompted to search on Netflix. Input is case insensitive.
• If the given title exists in the Netflix database, a message is displayed to the user and information is provided (type, release year, rating, description). Netflix is opened in a new tab in the user's browser.
• If the given title is not in the database, a message is displayed to the user and the program ends.
• Top 10 Netflix series and shows are displayed in terminal from Rotten Tomatoes.

I created this project to search for existing movies and TV shows on Netflix. The project is launched from a C++ program (main.cpp) where it prompts a user for the title of a movie or TV show. Next, the program calls a Python script (netflix.py) and sends the given title as a parameter. The Python script scrapes a dataset (netflix_titles.csv) and stores all titles as keys in a dictionary. Each title in the dictionary contains a type (movie or TV show), release year, rating, and a description found from the dataset. If the title provided by the user exists in the dictionary, a message is displayed and information is provided. The program then opens up netflix.com in the user's browser. The dataset I used was downloaded from kaggle.com and was updated in 2019. To add to the program, I used the Beautiful Soup library to scrape the current top 10 Netflix series from Rotten Tomatoes.

• Netflix Movies and TV Shows dataset - https://www.kaggle.com/shivamb/netflix-shows
• Referenced Lisa Dion's Image Manipulation example for calling Python script from C++
• https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-netflix-shows-and-movies-to-binge-watch-now/