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+import random
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+# crawl IMDB Top 250 and randomly select a movie
+
+URL = 'http://www.imdb.com/chart/top'
+
+def main():
+    response = requests.get(URL)
+
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
+    #soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'lxml') # faster
+
+    # print(soup.prettify())
+
+    movietags = soup.select('td.titleColumn')
+    inner_movietags = soup.select('td.titleColumn a')
+    ratingtags = soup.select('td.posterColumn span[name=ir]')
+
+    def get_year(movie_tag):
+        moviesplit = movie_tag.text.split()
+        year = moviesplit[-1] # last item 
+        return year
+
+    years = [get_year(tag) for tag in movietags]
+    actors_list =[tag['title'] for tag in inner_movietags] # access attribute 'title'
+    titles = [tag.text for tag in inner_movietags]
+    ratings = [float(tag['data-value']) for tag in ratingtags] # access attribute 'data-value'
+
+    n_movies = len(titles)
+
+    while(True):
+        idx = random.randrange(0, n_movies)
+        
+        print(f'{titles[idx]} {years[idx]}, Rating: {ratings[idx]:.1f}, Starring: {actors_list[idx]}')
+
+        user_input = input('Do you want another movie (y/[n])? ')
+        if user_input != 'y':
+            break
+    
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()