Update on this: The CBFC has blocked any such access to the data. While we have the data between 2017 to June 2025, it is no longer possible to scrape since the URLs have been changed from being sequential IDs to encrypted strings.
Aroon Deep of The Hindu wrote about this in today's paper: https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/censor-board-discontinues-full-access-to-cuts-on-website/article69736377.ece On Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 9:26:14 PM UTC+5:30 Aman Bhargava wrote: > Hello! > Yes there is. The cuts are posted on the ecinepramaan website (for > example, here is Aavesham > <https://www.ecinepramaan.gov.in/cbfc/?a=Certificate_Detail&i=100090292400000155>). > > The IDs on the URL are sequential and not hashed, so we've figured out a > hacky way to just scrape in a brute-force manner. This also means that > we've not yet been able to figure out a way to get a specific movie ID, we > scrape whatever we can and see if the movie we're interested in fell within > that range (you can narrow it a little bit by year and such). We've been > working on scraping data and cleaning it up for the last few months. > > Our work-in-progress repository is here: > https://github.com/diagram-chasing/censor-board-cuts > > The data scraping logic is explained here: > https://github.com/diagram-chasing/censor-board-cuts/tree/master/data-scripts/scrape > > This is not complete by any means. Issues are listed in the repository, as > are our TODO items. But we've made some progress on scraping and > structuring small samples, which you can see here > <https://flatgithub.com/diagram-chasing/censor-board-cuts?filename=data%2Fmodifications.csv&sha=7ec2784f8dc7818a6fec27c38c2f1d2016290e0f>. > > The data sample is also only *a small subset* of what can be gotten and > was scraped a few months ago. The end goal is to automate this and create a > regularly updated explorer with some basic trend analysis (modifications, > types of modifications etc.). > > On Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 8:19:07 PM UTC+5:30 Thejesh GN wrote: > >> https://cbfcindia.gov.in/cbfcAdmin/search-film.php >> >> You can search for specific film and their certification but doesn't list >> cursor changes. >> >> Is there a place I get that? May be every day for the latest films. This >> is for trend analysis. >> >> >> -- >> Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ >> http://thejeshgn.com >> GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 >> > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/1ae22adc-c281-4662-b0f1-e5859039cf81n%40googlegroups.com.
