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Building a Letterboxd Film & Review data pipeline: from raw scrape to first insight

DEV Community·Can Yılmaz·17 days ago
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When you need Letterboxd Film & Review as a recurring feed, the gap between "got a few rows out" and "have a clean nightly dataset in the warehouse" is wider than it looks. Here is the pipeline I sketched out, with the decisions I made at each step. Source survey Letterboxd Scraper Films, Ratings, Reviews & User Data Scrape films, ratings, cast & crew, genres, and user reviews from Letterboxd, the world's leading social film-discovery platform. For pipeline purposes, the relevant questions are: how stable is the source markup, what is the natural pagination unit, and how aggressively does it rate-limit. For this source the answer is "stable enough, list-based pagination, moderate rate-limiting" -- which makes it a good candidate for a daily incremental job rather than a streaming one.…

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