letterboxd-api

get public data for letterboxd users

currently only consumes the RSS feeds from letterboxd, when API is released this will be used

This project is not affiliated with letterboxd

It's also a fork of letterboxd by zaccolley with added support for typescript

Much love for the original author <3

installation

npm install letterboxd-api

Usage

function(username, [callback])

Returns a promise if no callback is provided.

import letterboxd from "letterboxd-api";

letterboxd("zeromero")
  .then((items) => console.log(items))
  .catch((error) => console.log(error));

Example using typescript

import letterboxd from "../index";
import type { Letterboxd } from "../src/letterboxd";

letterboxd("zeromero")
  .then((items) => logItems(items))
  .catch((error) => console.log(error));

function logItems(items: Letterboxd[]) {
  const diaryEntries = items.filter((item) => item.type === "diary");
  const lists = items.filter((item) => item.type === "list");

  console.log("");

  console.log(`Diary entries (${diaryEntries.length}):\n`);

  diaryEntries.map((diaryEntry) => {
    if ("film" in diaryEntry) {
      console.log(`  + ${diaryEntry.film.title} (${diaryEntry.uri})\n`);
    }
  });

  console.log(`\nLists (${lists.length}):\n`);

  lists.map((list) => {
    if ("title" in list) {
      console.log(`  + ${list.title} (${list.uri})\n`);
    }
  });

  console.log("");
}

output

output is an array of items.

there are two types of items: diary entries and lists.

due to the limitation of the data source (scraping a RSS feed), only the 20 most recent diary entries are returned

items of note for the list type:

• ranked: shows if it was set to ranked (1, 2, 3, 4).
• films: films in the list, capped at 10
• totalFilms: the total amount of films in the list, only 10 films are given here.

[
  {
    type: "diary",
    film: {
      title: "Zootopia",
      year: "2016",
      image: { tiny: "...", small: "...", medium: "...", large: "..." },
    },
    rating: { text: "★★★★", score: 4 },
    review: "proper cute, funny and interesting through out. ...",
    spoilers: false,
    isRewatch: false,
    date: { watched: 1463702400000, published: 1463784779000 },
    uri: "https://letterboxd.com/zaccolley/film/zootopia/",
  },
  //...
  {
    type: "list",
    date: {
      published: 1473470608000,
    },
    title: "All The Toy Stories",
    description: "I fucking love these films lol",
    ranked: false,
    films: [
      { title: "Toy Story", uri: "https://letterboxd.com/film/toy-story/" },
      { title: "Toy Story 2", uri: "https://letterboxd.com/film/toy-story-2/" },
      { title: "Toy Story 3", uri: "https://letterboxd.com/film/toy-story-3/" },
      {
        title: "Toy Story That Time Forgot",
        uri: "https://letterboxd.com/film/toy-story-that-time-forgot/",
      },
      {
        title: "Toy Story of Terror!",
        uri: "https://letterboxd.com/film/toy-story-of-terror/",
      },
    ],
    totalFilms: 56,
    uri: "https://letterboxd.com/zaccolley/list/tiff-2016/",
  },
  //...
];

types

type Diary = {
  type: "diary";
  date: {
    published: number;
    watched: number;
  };
  film: {
    title: string;
    year?: string;
    image?: ImageSchema;
  };
  rating: {
    text: string;
    score: number;
  };
  review?: string;
  spoilers?: boolean;
  isRewatch?: boolean;
  uri: string;
};

type List = {
  type: "list";
  date: {
    published: number;
  };
  title: string;
  description: string;
  ranked: boolean;
  films: {
    title: string;
    uri: string;
  }[];
  totalFilms: number;
  uri: string;
};

type ImageSchema = {
  tiny?: string;
  small?: string;
  medium?: string;
  large?: string;
};

type Letterboxd = Diary | List;