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?