Find the First IMDb Title Result with Filters

Purpose

Search IMDb titles with URL-level filters and open the first matching result without homepage navigation or search-form interaction.

When to Use

Use when the task provides a title query and asks for the first result, optionally constrained by IMDb technical metadata and a runtime range.

Workflow

1. Build and navigate directly to https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title={url-encoded-query}&has=technical&runtime={min-runtime},{max-runtime}. Preserve IMDb's runtime range syntax and URL-encode the title query.
2. On the loaded search page, run this evaluator to resolve the opaque title ID and obtain the first result URL:

   (() => {
     const a =
       document.querySelector(
         'li.ipc-metadata-list-summary-item a.ipc-title-link-wrapper[href^="/title/tt"]',
       ) || document.querySelector('a[href^="/title/tt"]');
     if (!a) return null;
     return {
       href: new URL(a.getAttribute("href"), location.origin).href,
       title: a.textContent.trim(),
     };
   })();

3. Navigate directly to the returned href in the same browser session; this is equivalent to clicking the first result and avoids guessing its opaque tt... ID.

Site-Specific Gotchas

• IMDb title IDs are opaque; resolve them from the search result before constructing the detail URL.
• The useful filter parameters are has=technical and runtime={lower},{upper}; retain them in the direct search URL.
• Prefer the result-list title-link selector above. The fallback selector is broader and may become fragile if IMDb adds unrelated /title/tt... links to the page.
• Consent, login, or bot-check interstitials may prevent the result-list DOM from appearing; resolve those before running the evaluator.

Expected Output

The IMDb title-detail page for the first result matching the supplied title, technical-data, and runtime filters, with the resolved title URL and displayed title available from the evaluator output.