Importing / Transferring Data from Trakt to TVmaze

DonnaE wrote 17 days ago: 1

Hi everyone,

I’ve recently started exploring TVmaze after becoming increasingly frustrated with the changes to Trakt. Since their latest update, the way I used Trakt to manage my shows and create my weekly TV schedule has become much more difficult.

After spending some time setting up TVmaze, I’ve discovered that the Calendar, TV Countdown, followed shows and followed networks give me pretty much exactly what I was looking for. I’m really impressed with how well TVmaze works for my needs and am now considering making the move completely.

I can see that Trakt allows me to export all of my user data as a ZIP file. Is there currently any way to import that Trakt export into TVmaze, particularly my followed shows and watched history/progress?

I’ve had my Trakt account for quite a long time, so I’d love to avoid manually recreating all of that information if possible.

If importing a Trakt export isn’t currently available, would this be something TVmaze might consider adding in the future?

Thanks! 😊


gazza911 wrote 15 days ago: 2

There isn't currently an import for trakt as far as I know. 

TVmaze has previously done imports for services that have shut down (e.g. TV Time), so imports aren't out of the question.


david wrote 14 days ago: 2

Not currently, no. But note that we an API that allows you to import all sorts of data, such as followed shows and watched episodes. It would probably be very easy to vibecode something together that takes Trakt's ZIP export and uses our API to migrate it here.

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