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Trakt.tv backup script
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| <?php | |
| /* | |
| Backup script for trakt.tv (API v2). | |
| */ | |
| // create a Trakt app to get a client API key: http://docs.trakt.apiary.io/#introduction/create-an-app | |
| $apikey = "CLIENT_API_KEY"; | |
| $username = "YOUR_USERNAME"; | |
| $zip = new ZipArchive(); | |
| $zip_filename = "trakt_backup_" . date("Y-m-d") . ".zip"; | |
| $zip_filepath = "/tmp/trakt_backup_" . date("Y-m-d") . ".zip"; | |
| if ($zip->open($zip_filepath, ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE) !== TRUE) { | |
| exit("Cannot open <$zip_filepath>\n"); | |
| } | |
| loadAndZip("watchlist/movies/", "watchlist_movies.json"); | |
| loadAndZip("watchlist/shows/", "watchlist_shows.json"); | |
| loadAndZip("watchlist/episodes/", "watchlist_episodes.json"); | |
| loadAndZip("watchlist/seasons/", "watchlist_seasons.json"); | |
| loadAndZip("ratings/movies/", "ratings_movies.json"); | |
| loadAndZip("ratings/shows/", "ratings_shows.json"); | |
| loadAndZip("ratings/episodes/", "ratings_episodes.json"); | |
| loadAndZip("ratings/seasons/", "ratings_seasons.json"); | |
| loadAndZip("collection/movies/", "library_collection_movies.json"); | |
| loadAndZip("collection/shows/", "library_collection_shows.json"); | |
| loadAndZip("watched/movies/", "watched_movies.json"); | |
| loadAndZip("watched/shows/", "watched_shows.json"); | |
| loadAndZip("history/movies/", "history_movies.json"); | |
| loadAndZip("history/shows/", "history_shows.json"); | |
| $zip->close(); | |
| header("Content-type: application/zip"); | |
| header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$zip_filename"); | |
| header("Pragma: no-cache"); | |
| header("Expires: 0"); | |
| readfile($zip_filepath); | |
| exit(); | |
| function loadAndZip($path, $filename) | |
| { | |
| global $zip, $apikey, $username; | |
| $url = "https://api.trakt.tv/users/" . $username . '/' . $path ; | |
| $ch = curl_init(); | |
| curl_setopt_array($ch, array( | |
| CURLOPT_URL => $url, | |
| CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array( | |
| "Content-Type: application/json", | |
| "trakt-api-key: " . $apikey, | |
| "trakt-api-version: 2"), | |
| CURLOPT_VERBOSE => true, | |
| CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, | |
| CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => 0, | |
| CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => 0 | |
| )); | |
| $result = curl_exec($ch); | |
| $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); | |
| if($httpCode == 404) { | |
| exit("<h3>Wrong username!</h3>"); | |
| } | |
| curl_close($ch); | |
| $zip->addFromString($filename, $result); | |
| } |
I use automated backups every Sunday at midnight (with monitoring in case anything goes wrong), I was originally using https://darekkay.com/service/trakt/trakt.php?username= but since that's been discontinued, I'll be using a copy of this script.
Thanks for sharing this!
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It's been so helpful, thanks for all your work on it mate!