diff --git a/scripts/scrape.py b/scripts/scrape.py
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+++ b/scripts/scrape.py
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+import requests
+
+url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"
+
+headers = {
+    "User-Agent": "CSE881-MovieProject/1.0 (ishaa@msu.edu)"
+}
+
+params = {
+    "action": "query",
+    "format": "json",
+    "prop": "extracts",
+    "titles": "Interstellar",
+    "explaintext": True,
+    "redirects": 1
+}
+
+response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
+
+print("Status:", response.status_code)
+print("Content-Type:", response.headers.get("content-type"))
+print("First 200 chars:\n", response.text[:200])
+
+data = response.json()
+
+pages = data["query"]["pages"]
+page = next(iter(pages.values()))
+
+print("\nTitle:", page["title"])
+print("\nPreview:\n", page["extract"][:500])