2009-05-30, 08:20
rernst Wrote:IMPA has the best posters but there is no legit search engine except for leechers (I have come up with my own search engine for my code at 24hourloop which hands back XML results, btw, to avoid ripping IMPA off or make Google lock you out).
Themoviedb.org has very good posters but they intentionally do not allow for direct access but you have to scrape them, at least for actors.
IMDB is useless. The idea there is that they would like to redirect you to the poster vendors, a legitimate economic consideration but not feasible for a scraper.
If IMPA has posters for a movie, there is a link from the IMDB page. What I do is scrape the IMDB posters page looking for an IMPA link. If found, scrape that link.
TMDB has an API to get the movie info, posters, and fanart.