<p>Using <a href="http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net" rel="noreferrer">IMDbPy</a> it is painfully easy to access movies from the IMDB site:</p>

<pre><code>import imdb

access = imdb.IMDb()
movie = access.get_movie(3242) # random ID

print "title: %s year: %s" % (movie['title'], movie['year'])
</code></pre>

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

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.)
...
```
```
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
```
```