Letterboxd Watchlist Scraper
Use the bundled script to scrape a public Letterboxd watchlist (no auth).
Always ask the user for the Letterboxd username if they did not provide one.
Script
scripts/scrape_watchlist.py
Basic usage
uv run scripts/scrape_watchlist.py <username> --out watchlist.csv
Robust mode (recommended)
uv run scripts/scrape_watchlist.py <username> --out watchlist.jsonl --delay-ms 300 --timeout 30 --retries 2
--out *.csv → title,link--out *.jsonl → one JSON object per line: { "title": "…", "link": "…" }
Notes / gotchas
- Letterboxd usernames are case-insensitive, but must be exact.
- The script scrapes paginated pages:
/watchlist/page/<n>/.
- Stop condition: first page with no
data-target-link="/film/..." poster entries.
- The scraper validates username format (
[A-Za-z0-9_-]+) and uses retries + timeout.
- Default crawl delay is 250ms/page to be polite and reduce transient failures.
- This is best-effort HTML scraping; if Letterboxd changes markup, adjust the regex in the script.
Scope boundary
- This skill only scrapes a public Letterboxd watchlist and writes CSV/JSONL output.
- Do not read local folders, scan libraries, or perform unrelated follow-up actions unless explicitly requested by the user.