Trakt.tv backup script

trakt-backup.php

<?php

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

Live demo: https://darekkay.com/blog/trakt-tv-backup/
*/

// 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);
}

Thank you so much for this! I had a quick question though. Is it possible to list all watch dates? I noticed that if you watch something multiple times it only has the last watched at field.

Hey @PAQuestions, sorry, I cannot answer this question. This script downloads only what Trakt API exposes.

That is apparently not possible: https://trakt.docs.apiary.io/#reference/users/watched

Hi Darek, thank you so much for this script! It's now started downloading empty zip files as of about a week ago; can't see a verbose option so no information as to what might have gone wrong, any thoughts?

Hi Darek, thank you so much for this script! It's now started downloading empty zip files as of about a week ago; can't see a verbose option so no information as to what might have gone wrong, any thoughts?

Trakt API URL changed to https://api.trakt.tv/

Thanks @holybladder for reporting the issue and @joserbatista for the fix! I've updated the gist and also the live demo on my blog.

Thank you @darekkay for the fix! Working nicely again now.

Thank you @darekkay for writing this gist. May I ask why you're choosing to save the JSON output in .txt format instead of .json?

@micmalti No reason, updated to .json!

EDIT: Sorry, never mind, error on my end!

Hi @darekkay, this issue seems to have surfaced again?

Thank you ♥️

Thanks so much ;)

The history only extracts past 10 days data. Is there any way to get the whole data?

I am trying to get my trakt data by using the web page as I have no idea how to use this script
https://darekkay.com/blog/trakt-tv-backup/
Unfortunately it creates a zip file with 0 byte json files! Can someone please help me with this?

@rezpower that's strange. I just tried the web page route and it worked, as per usual. It was only when I tried to run the script locally that it created the zip file with 0 byte json files.

@micmalti Thanks a lot for replying. By confirming that it worked for you I started trying again to see why it's not working for me and I finally figured out that it was because of my username. My username on Trakt was my e-mail address with a dot in the middle. ([email protected]). I changed it from the email format and only kept myname.s , but trakt changes the URL from . to -
So to fix the problem I entered myname-s in the website and I was able to get it work.
Mentioned all this in case someone else faces the same problem!