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);
}

Hi @darekkay, looks like Trakt is now blocking this at least for me, don't know if it's affecting others? Got back (trimmed):

   <h2 class="cf-subheadline"><span data-translate="unable_to_access">You are unable to access</span> trakt.tv</h2>

        <h2 data-translate="blocked_why_headline">Why have I been blocked?</h2>

        <p data-translate="blocked_why_detail">This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.</p>
      </div>

        <h2 data-translate="blocked_resolve_headline">What can I do to resolve this?</h2>

        <p data-translate="blocked_resolve_detail">You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.</p>

Trakt has definitely changed something. Can't log in anymore with my own passwd. I'm now receiving a code from them in order to log on. I guess with cyber WWIII going on it's only logical for them to do so.

Just looked on Trakt and they now have the option to download your own data (JSON) "https://trakt.tv/settings/data" which makes this script obsolete. Thx Darekay for this wonderful script.

@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.

@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.