Given an IMDB movie id, how do I programmatically get its poster image?

Question

movie id tt0438097 can be found at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438097/

What\'s the url for its poster image?

Answer 1

You can use imdb-cli tool to download movie's poster, e.g.

omdbtool -t "Ice Age: The Meltdown" | wget `sed -n '/^poster/{n;p;}'`