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Asked: 2026-05-10T21:25:43+00:00

Using IMDbPy it is painfully easy to access movies from the IMDB site: import

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Using IMDbPy it is painfully easy to access movies from the IMDB site:

import imdb  access = imdb.IMDb() movie = access.get_movie(3242) # random ID  print 'title: %s year: %s' % (movie['title'], movie['year'])

However I see no way to get the picture or thumbnail of the movie cover. Suggestions?

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  1. Note:

    • Not every movie has a cover url. (The random ID in your example doesn’t.)
    • Make sure you’re using an up-to-date version of IMDbPy. (IMDb changes, and IMDbPy with it.)

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    import imdb  access = imdb.IMDb() movie = access.get_movie(1132626)  print 'title: %s year: %s' % (movie['title'], movie['year']) print 'Cover url: %s' % movie['cover url']

    If for some reason you can’t use the above, you can always use something like BeautifulSoup to get the cover url.

    from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup import imdb  access = imdb.IMDb() movie = access.get_movie(1132626)  page = urllib2.urlopen(access.get_imdbURL(movie)) soup = BeautifulSoup(page) cover_div = soup.find(attrs={'class' : 'photo'}) cover_url = (photo_div.find('img'))['src'] print 'Cover url: %s' % cover_url
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