Here’s a quick and dirty shell script that will attempt get the correct IMDB link based on a files name. I use this to copy media into the appropriate places on my media server along with an NFO file that xbmc can use to download the appropriate movie info. This technique can be used to fetch links from google for a lot of different things from the command line. Be careful though, if you use this too many times (1000s?) in a short amount of time google will ban you for a while. I think the correct thing to do is use their API. I did say quick and dirty though :) Adjust path’s, etc. accordingly and try your luck.

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#!/bin/bash

SEARCHSTRING=`echo $1|cut -d. -f1|sed 's/ /_/g'|sed 's/-/_/g'|sed 's/_/+/g'`
IMDBURL=`curl -iIs -A "Mozilla/5.0" "http://www.google.com/search?&q=site+www.imdb.com+$SEARCHSTRING&btnI" | grep Location | awk {'print $2'}`
echo $IMDBURL