Get a Movie’s Details From IMDb

A while back when I was developing MoviePlay (a movies database) I wanted to allow the user to get the movie’s details from IMDb (The Internet Movie Database) instead of having him/her enter it manually. IMDb does not provide a way for developers to use their data, so I wrote the code below to screen scrape or web scrape the details from the movie’s page. It gets the title, director, genre, release year and tag line of the movie as well as the thumbnail.