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Project Overview

We'll implement Webflyx as a collection of command line scripts that perform search operations on a local dataset of movies.

Assignment

In your project's root, create a new cli directory. This is where we'll place the entrypoint scripts for our search implementations.
Delete the current main.py file – we won't need it.

In the cli directory, create a new file called keyword_search_cli.py and paste in the following code:

import argparse


def main() -> None:
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Keyword Search CLI")
    subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(dest="command", help="Available commands")

    search_parser = subparsers.add_parser("search", help="Search movies using keywords")
    search_parser.add_argument("query", type=str, help="Search query")

    args = parser.parse_args()

    match args.command:
        case "search":
            # print the search query here
            pass
        case _:
            parser.print_help()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

This is just some boilerplate that uses the argparse library to parse command line arguments.

uv run cli/keyword_search_cli.py search "your search query" will execute the "search" case and populate "your search query" into the args.query variable.
uv run cli/keyword_search_cli.py with no (or invalid) arguments will print the parser's help message.

Notice that main is annotated with -> None because this CLI entrypoint doesn't return a value.

Update the "search" case to print the search query in this format:
```
Searching for: QUERY
```
Where QUERY is the value of args.query.

Run and submit the CLI tests.