R package for automating the image download of movie poster files.
This package uses DVD Release Dates to get the titles that are being released for the date.
It also relies on phantomjs to load the google image search results. This exe is bundled in the inst\ folder of the package.
devtools::install_github("fazetu/moviepics")
library(moviepics)
Use the function get_titles to get a list structure of movies that are being released on DVD/Blu-ray for the designated month and year. This scrapes DVD Release Dates.
jan18_titles <- get_titles(month = 1, year = 2018, n_movies = 5, movies_only = TRUE)
Use download_pictures_title to get the images for a given title. This uses phantomjs.
download_pictures_title(dir = ".", title = "The Shape of Water", n_pictures = 5)
Use download_pictures to get all the images for the titles of a given month and year. Combines the above two functions.
download_pictures(dir = ".", month = 1, year = 2018, n_movies = 5,
movies_only = TRUE, n_pictures = 5, subdir_organize = FALSE)