I get translated text when I do a GET request (in Python). How to get English content?

Question

I\'m trying to web scrape this page for fun.

The script is working fine, but the names of some movies are translated into Romanian (for example, \"B

Answer 1

I guess this site is serving pages based on browser language. Try to set it on requests:

import requests

url = r"http://www.imdb.com/search/title?release_date=2017&page=1&ref_=adv_nxt"
headers = {"Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5"}
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

By the way. Check imdb web scrape's policy.