Trakt.tv backup script

trakt-backup.php

<?php

/* 
Backup script for trakt.tv (API v2).
*/

// create a Trakt app to get a client API key: http://docs.trakt.apiary.io/#introduction/create-an-app
$apikey = "CLIENT_API_KEY";
$username = "YOUR_USERNAME";

$zip = new ZipArchive();
$zip_filename = "trakt_backup_" . date("Y-m-d") . ".zip";
$zip_filepath = "/tmp/trakt_backup_" . date("Y-m-d") . ".zip";

if ($zip->open($zip_filepath, ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE) !== TRUE) {
  exit("Cannot open <$zip_filepath>\n");
}

loadAndZip("watchlist/movies/", "watchlist_movies.json");
loadAndZip("watchlist/shows/", "watchlist_shows.json");
loadAndZip("watchlist/episodes/", "watchlist_episodes.json");
loadAndZip("watchlist/seasons/", "watchlist_seasons.json");

loadAndZip("ratings/movies/", "ratings_movies.json");
loadAndZip("ratings/shows/", "ratings_shows.json");
loadAndZip("ratings/episodes/", "ratings_episodes.json");
loadAndZip("ratings/seasons/", "ratings_seasons.json");

loadAndZip("collection/movies/", "library_collection_movies.json");
loadAndZip("collection/shows/", "library_collection_shows.json");
loadAndZip("watched/movies/", "watched_movies.json");
loadAndZip("watched/shows/", "watched_shows.json");

loadAndZip("history/movies/", "history_movies.json");
loadAndZip("history/shows/", "history_shows.json");

$zip->close();

header("Content-type: application/zip");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$zip_filename");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
readfile($zip_filepath);

exit();

function loadAndZip($path, $filename)
{
  global $zip, $apikey, $username;

  $url = "https://api.trakt.tv/users/" . $username . '/' . $path  ;
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
      CURLOPT_URL => $url,
      CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
          "Content-Type: application/json",
          "trakt-api-key: " . $apikey,
          "trakt-api-version: 2"),
      CURLOPT_VERBOSE => true,
      CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
      CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => 0,
      CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => 0
  ));

  $result = curl_exec($ch);

  $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
  if($httpCode == 404) {
    exit("<h3>Wrong username!</h3>");
  }
  curl_close($ch);

  $zip->addFromString($filename, $result);
}

@pinhead216 Thanks for posting the link to the data export page. This makes my script pretty much obsolete (except for automated backups - which I do not require personally). I removed the live script from my website.

It's been so helpful, thanks for all your work on it mate!

I use automated backups every Sunday at midnight (with monitoring in case anything goes wrong), I was originally using https://darekkay.com/service/trakt/trakt.php?username= but since that's been discontinued, I'll be using a copy of this script.

Thanks for sharing this!

I wasn't able to get the PHP script to work anymore, not sure why (the API returned empty results). So I rebuilt the whole thing with Powershell, also adding to the backup the user comments (which were not captured by the PHP script) and it works great. It also supports the authentication flow so it'll export everything even if your profile is private. I published the script here: https://github.com/mayerwin/trakt-tv-backup
If you want to convert it to another language, any LLM should be able to do it easily.