Show HN: Listak – Save lists from IMDB and Letterboxd as CSV files

2 points by mghlb 3 years ago · 1 comment · 1 min read

I love movies, and I'm always on the lookout for interesting ones that I don't know about. Lists from users on IMDB and Letterboxd seem to quench that curiosity, but I often prefer to keep things offline for the sake of posterity and portability. I made a simple website that takes a link of a user's list and gives you back a CSV file of that list.

Some Caveats:

– The IMDB API used is rate-limited to 100 daily requests.

– Letterboxd denied me access to their API, so I went scraping, which takes some time (approx. 120 entries per minute.)

I hope others find this useful; any feedback is welcome.

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