Create a Python iQIYI Movie Scraper with GUI – Full Step‑by‑Step Guide

Project Goal

By selecting the iQIYI movie option, the program prints high‑quality movie information (name, actor, rating) into a text box for the user to view and then watch.

Dependencies

Development tools: Sublime Text 3 and 360 Browser.

Implementation Steps

First, open the iQIYI page and inspect it (F12). The movie list is wrapped in a <ul> element containing multiple <li> items.

Two parsing approaches are shown: using a regular expression or a more structured method.

Parsing Code

def parse_page(self, html):
    # compile regex for movie content
    pattern = re.compile('<li.*?qy-mod-li.*?text-score">(.*?)<.*?title.*?>(.*?)<.*?title.*?>(.*?)<', re.S)
    items = re.findall(pattern, html)  # find all matches
    for item in items:
        yield {
            'Movie_Name': item[1],              # movie name
            'Movie_actor': item[2].strip()[3:], # actor
            'Movie_score': item[0]               # rating
        }

GUI Code

class gui:
    def __init__(self):
        self.root = tk.Tk()
        self.root.title("iQIYI Hot Drama Search v1.0")
        self.root.geometry("700x600")
        self.lb = tk.Label(self.root, text='请选择搜索类型')
        self.tt = tk.Text(self.root, width=40, height=30)
        self.cb = ttk.Combobox(self.root, width=12)
        self.cb['values'] = ('请选择-----','综合排序','热播榜','好评榜','新上线')
        self.cb.current(0)
        self.cb.bind("<<ComboboxSelected>>", self.go)
        self.lb.place(x=30, y=30)
        self.cb.place(x=154, y=30)
        self.tt.place(x=30, y=60, width=400, height=600)
        self.root.mainloop()

File Writing

def write_to_file(self, content):
    with open('movie.txt', 'a', encoding='utf8') as f:
        f.write(json.dumps(content, ensure_ascii=False) + '
')

Combobox Event

# dropdown event
def go(self, *arg):
    if self.cb.get() == '请选择-----':
        self.tt.delete('1.0', 'end')
    elif self.cb.get() == '综合排序':
        self.tt.delete('1.0', 'end')
        self.main('https://list.iqiyi.com/www/1/-------------24-1-1-iqiyi--.html')
    elif self.cb.get() == '热播榜':
        self.tt.delete('1.0', 'end')
        self.main('https://list.iqiyi.com/www/1/-------------11-1-1-iqiyi--.html')
    elif self.cb.get() == '好评榜':
        self.tt.delete('1.0', 'end')
        self.main('https://list.iqiyi.com/www/1/-------------8-1-1-iqiyi--.html')
    elif self.cb.get() == '新上线':
        self.tt.delete('1.0', 'end')
        self.main('https://list.iqiyi.com/www/1/-------------4-1-1-iqiyi--.html')

Main Function

# main function
def main(self, url):
    html = self.get_page(url)
    for item in self.parse_page(html):
        self.tt.insert('insert', item)
        self.tt.insert('insert', '
')
        self.tt.update()
        self.write_to_file(item)

The resulting interface shows the extracted movies, as illustrated below.

Conclusion

This Python project creates a functional iQIYI hot‑drama search tool that is beginner‑friendly and demonstrates practical web‑scraping, GUI design, and data persistence techniques.