A New Tool from Trakt Prompted Me to Update My Letterboxd Shortcut
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A New Tool from Trakt Prompted Me to Update My Letterboxd Shortcut
I’m sure many of you have experienced this: you spend hours sweating over a problem only for someone to come along with an easy solution that takes a fraction of the time and significantly fewer tools. Well, it happened to me this past week. If you’ll remember, a couple of issues ago, I wrote about how I’d managed to obtain my wife’s TV Time data from the company with a GDPR request and used a Python script to – one-by-one – add each entry to her Trakt account. This allowed her to sync with Sequel and continue her TV tracking with a much more pleasant app.
If only I’d waited a week. Last Friday, Trakt introduced a tool for importing all of your tracking history from a wide range of sources. IMDB, Letterboxd, JSON files, and, yes, TV Time, are all supported. So the purpose of this first part of my column this week is to say, “Don’t do what I did!” Instead, head over to the Trakt website to use their very simple tool.