User Data Backup

JarodOnil wrote 10 years ago: 1

From my experience using another site which suddenly disappeared, I would say that it would be extremely useful to be able to backup/export the data from the website to the computer.

The data would mostly be the Shows Followed with Episodes Watched and Watch List with the ones the user hasn't watched yet.

For any serious tv addict, loosing this information because of a site being shutdown, is the most annoying thing ever as you may not remember everything you were watching/watched or intended to watch.

This site is great but this feature would make it even better.

SilverSurfer wrote 9 years ago: 1

I'd like to second this request. I know it could result in abuse so it could be limited to a requested email of the data once a week or month. It could end up being a great distributed back-up for the site itself ... if there was a catastrophic data loss it'd be nice if members could help rebuild with their own personal back-up data re-uped back to the site.

nickodemos wrote 9 years ago: 1

Was about to post asking for this myself. This has less to do with the site going down and more with the time I have invested in trying to keep track of things. Being able to backup to a CSV file would be fantastic and it could be kept fairly simple. Name of series, Completed seasons, and last episode not seen if all previous episodes seen.

Madam Secretary, S01, S02, S03E07

It would be a bit more complicated for watching episodes out of season. I would propose simply in seasons not complete then add not seen episodes.

How It's Made, S01, S02E01, S02E02, S02E12, S02E15, S03, S04, S05E16, S06, S07

david wrote 9 years ago: 0

FYI, if you have a premium account it's very easy to create a backup of your settings using the user-level API.

Even if you don't know how to program, you can simply enter your username & API key on http://tvmazecdn.com/apidoc, run ("Try it out") the "GET /user/episodes" etc calls and copy the output somewhere safe.

If you don't want to get a premium account, you can still rest assured that we have realtime off-site backups of all your data. :)

nickodemos wrote 9 years ago: 1

Thanks for the information david. Yeah that is nice to know that it is there.

Think you might allow anyone to access the actors or followed networks so people can get a visual of what they would get?

gazza911 wrote 9 years ago: 1

nickodemos wrote:
Thanks for the information david. Yeah that is nice to know that it is there.
Think you might allow anyone to access the actors or followed networks so people can get a visual of what they would get?

If you go to http://tvmazecdn.com/apidoc

You can see the expected structure from a response if you don't have premium, or the actual response if you do and authorise it (which isn't automatically done).

You do this by expanding the endpoint (by clicking 'GET', 'PUT' & 'DELETE' in each section).