alternativateatral

Web scraper for user reviews on Alternativa Teatral

Usage

Binary for Linux

Download the binary from the Releases section and run:

./scrape <URL> -o <OUTPUT_FILE>

Example:

$ ./scrape https://www.alternativateatral.com/opiniones65140-sex-vivi-tu-experiencia

The results are saved in JSONL format.

{"date": "25/04/2025 17:08", "author": "Patricia", "rating": "5", "text": "Excelente! Súper recomendable, un espectáculo diferente!"}

Python Script

Install the dependencies from requirements.txt and run:

$ python src/scrape.py <URL> -o <OUTPUT_FILE>

Development

For development/packaging, create the Conda environment:

$ conda env create -f environment.yml
$ conda activate alternativa

Limitations

• I suspect the Alternativa Teatral website has a limit of 999 pages per play. At 7 comments per page, this would represent a maximum of 6,988 reviews.
• Although the site allows rating a play in half-star increments, the script only captures the integer part of the rating.
• To enable packaging into a binary, SSL certificate verification was disabled. This has some security implications. An alternative would be to bundle cacert.pem alongside the binary.