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

$Movies = Get-ChildItem -path "Z:\MOVIES\COMEDY" | Where-Object {$_.Extension -eq ".avi" -or $_.Extension -eq ".mp4" -or $_.Extension -eq ".mkv" -or $_.Extension -eq
  
".flv" -or $_.Extension -eq ".xvid" -or $_.Extension -eq ".divx"} | Select-Object Name, FullName | Sort Name 

#Grab all the extension types and filter the ones I ONLY want 



$COMEDY = ForEach($Movie in $Movies) 

{

        $Title = $($Movie.Name)

        #Remove the file extension

        $Title = $Title.split('.')[0] 
       


        #Changing the case to all lower 
       
        $Title = $Title.ToLower()



        #Replace a space w/ %20 for the search structure

        $searchTitle = $Title.Replace(' ','%20')       



        #Fetching search results

        $moviesearch = Invoke-WebRequest "http://www.imdb.com/search/title?title=$searchTitle&title_type=feature"

         

        #Moving html elements into variable

        $titleclassarray = $moviesearch.AllElements | where Class -eq 'title' | select -First 1



        #Checking if result contains movies

        try


        {
            $titleclass = $titleclassarray[0]

        }

        catch

        {

            Write-Warning "No movie found matching that title http://www.imdb.com/search/title?title=$searchTitle&title_type=feature"

        }      

                   

        #Parcing HTML for movie link

        $regex = "<\s*a\s*[^>]*?href\s*=\s*[`"']*([^`"'>]+)[^>]*?>"

        $linksFound = [Regex]::Matches($titleclass.innerHTML, $regex, "IgnoreCase")

         



        #Fetching the first result from 

        $titlelink = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList

        foreach($link in $linksFound)

        {

            $trimmedlink = $link.Groups[1].Value.Trim()

            if ($trimmedlink.Contains('/title/'))

            {

                [void] $titlelink.Add($trimmedlink)

            }

        }

        #Fetching movie page

        $movieURL = "http://www.imdb.com$($titlelink[0])"

        

        #Grabbing the URL for the Movie Poster

        $MoviePoster = ((Invoke-WebRequest –Uri $movieURL).Images | Where-Object {$_.title -like "$Title Poster"} | Where src -like "http:*").src  
 


        $MyVariable = ""

        $ImgLocation = "" + " " + " " + " "+ " " + " " + " "+ " " + " " + " "

        

        Write-Output $MyVariable, $ImgLocation

       

    }$COMEDY | Out-File z:\db\COMEDY.htm  



    $after = Get-Content z:\db\COMEDY.htm 



    #adding a back button to the Index 

    $before = Get-Content z:\db\before.txt



    #adding the back button prior to the poster images content

    Set-Content z:\db\COMEDY.htm –value $before, $after