Watchboxd

Live Demo

If you dont have a Letterboxd account, you can use my account (Stanisloth) to test the app! Expect to wait about 10 seconds for the data to load if you use my account name, I have a lot of movies in my watchlist :)

📝 Description

This MERN-stack app scrapes the HTML of a users Letterboxd movie watchlist, and news articles, to return a clean list of movies from their watchlist that were added to streaming services that month.

💡 Features

• RESTful API which can scrape Letterboxd / comicbook.com HTML, cross filter two lists of movies, and return a clean array with movie data.
• Active database with MongoDB to store arrays containing new movies added to streaming each month.
• Usage of Open Movie Database API to gather movie poster src images https://www.omdbapi.com/
• Webscrapping done with Cheerio, and Axios
• Responsive UI for mobile devices
• Full-stack app housed on a virtual Ubuntu machine using AWS EC2.

🛠️ Built with

• React
• SCSS
• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• Express
• NodeJS
• Axios
• Cheerio
• AWS EC2
• OMDB API

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Getting started

After cloning the repo, run:

cd server
npm install
npm run devStart

The REST API is now running at localhost:4001.

cd client
npm install
npm run build
npm start

The client is now running at localhost:3000.