Given an IMDB movie id, how do I programmatically get its poster image?
Check out http://www.imdbapi.com/, It returns Poster url in string.
For example, check http://www.imdbapi.com/?i=&t=inception and you'll get the poster address: Poster":"http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjAxMzY3NjcxNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTI5OTM0Mw@@._V1._SX320.jpg"
Update: Seems like the site owner had some arguments with IMDB legal staff. As mentioned in the original site, new site's address is http://www.omdbapi.com/
The best solution is to use tmdb.org :
use your imdbid in this api url after
find/:https://api.themoviedb.org/3/find/tt0111161?api_key=__YOURAPIKEY__&external_source=imdb_idRetrieve the json response and select the
poster_pathattribute:e.g.
"poster_path":"/9O7gLzmreU0nGkIB6K3BsJbzvNv.jpg"Prepend this path with
"http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w150", and you will have the poster URL that you can use in an img tag :-)
omdbapi works, but I found out you cannot really use these images (because of screen scraping and they are blocked anyway if you use them in an img tag)