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Import from Letterboxd option?
posted by benaddSTAFFMOD on May 21, 2020 at 6:49 AM
Recently discovered a way to get all watched/rated movies on Letterboxd exported to .csv format (via Account Settings > Export your Data) Any chance we can get the option to import these to TMDB?
Cheers!
Reply by Banana
on May 21, 2020 at 7:47 AM
This was addressed before and you might get a better answer by searching the support forums. But, as far as I remember, there isn't any database ID (TMDb, IMDb) in the file. It's basically not built to be imported anywhere else.
Reply by benadd
on May 21, 2020 at 8:07 AM
I understand what you’re saying. Looking at the files themselves, each item does have a unique “Letterboxd URI”. Following one of these links to a film’s Letterboxd page and highlighting the “Details” tab reveals raw links to both TMDB & IMDB in every case. Unfortunately that’s the limit of my technical knowledge, so I don’t know if this would require a tweaked API (or some other fancy method of programming I know nothing about!) but to me it looks like it could be done with the right expertise?
Reply by Banana
on May 21, 2020 at 8:20 PM
Technically yeah. But a better and easier way would be for Letterboxd to include the IDs in their export.
Reply by moki
on October 9, 2020 at 11:47 AM
Take some time, grab some coffee. It is possible with TraktRater & LibreOffice Calc.