Netflexport

Export your Netflix account: ratings, queues, recommendations. Since Netflix doesn't have an API for rating export, you'll have to use your browser to generate a list of rated titles and feed that in. Take control of your own data, do whatever you want with it.

This code is likely to decay as I leave the Netflix service behind. Fork and improve it as you will. Note one of the underlying libraries relies on Netflix API v1.0 while all of the calls in this application are to the API v2.0. Forking that and moving it to v2.0 may make for much more interesting ways to manipulate your data right from Netflix.

Requirements

• Python 2.6 or higher (untested on higher versions)
• virtualenv (optional)
• Web browser with JavaScript console (optional, for acquiring ratings list)

Installation

If you're using virtualenv (you should use virtualenv), create one for this project. Then run:

% pip install -e git+https://github.com/voccs/netflexport.git
% cd src/netflexport
% pip install -r requirements.txt

You could do this in your standard Python installation, too, but that'll just leave a bunch of cruft sitting around.

Usage

1. Run this snippet of JavaScript in your browser's equivalent of a JavaScript console on each and every page of your ratings, copying and pasting the console output to a text file. The output format, in case you want to use your own alternative for generating it, is one catalog title identifier number per line.

jQuery('tr.agMovie').each(function(i,el){console.log(jQuery('a.mdpLink', this).attr('id').slice(2,-2))});

Save the text file to, say, ratings.txt.

2. Acquire API credentials and put them in settings.cfg.

3. Generate your own authorization token and put the key, secret, and user ID in settings.cfg.local, copying the structure over from settings.cfg.

4. Run it:

% python netflexport -c settings.cfg -r ratings.txt > netflix.json

It will skip over fetching ratings if no ratings file is provided; there is a ratings setting in settings.cfg to record the file location.

5. The export is to STDOUT to a concatenation of JSON structures, like:

{
    "disc_queue": [
       { "item" : { ... } },
       ...
    ],
    "instant_queue": [
       { "item" : { ... } },
       ...
    ],
    "ratings": [
       { "catalog_title: ... },
       ...
    ],
    "recommendations": [
       { "average_ratings": ... },
       ...
    ]
}