Is there a way to print or export my movie ratings?

[Gary]

My Netflix movie ratings are the closest thing I have to a catalog of all the movies I've ever watched, and what I thought of them. I'd love to have a version of that list that I can save and do with as I please. I can copy and paste, page by page, but that would require lots of cleanup editing and be extremely time consuming. Are there any methods or tools available to accomplish this more easily?

[Knaldskalle]

www.likeminds.com can import your Netflix ratings (and re-export them elsewhere), but you'll still have to go over them, since it doesn't always get things right - and when you correct them it doesn't always list the correct option, so it can become frustrating.

Depending on how many movie ratings you have you might want to transfer your ratings manually to imdb - imdb lets you export the ratings and other sites can utilize that to import your imdb ratings.

[Gary]

Thanks for the tips. I tried likeminds.com. It's a very poorly designed and user-unfriendly website, but eventually I got it to do what I wanted. As you said, it gets a lot of things wrong, so I'll need to spend a lot of time cleaning up the data (it even has dozens of movies listed that I've never seen, let alone rated!). But I think it will still save me time in the long run.

[skorens]

Greetings,

I've created a simple service which allows you to export some of your Netflix ratings to a JSON file. for more information, go to:

http://ratings-exporter.heroku.com

I've posted the code on Github for people to inspect/use.

Thanks,

Steve

[Gary]

What can one do with a JSON file?

[skorens]

cryptic answer: a lot or very little.

JSON is a format named JavaScript Object Notation. If you know what CSV is, JSON is similar but the format is different. Instead of new lines and commas, there are curly braces and colons and quotes and you can read more about the specifics by doing a search and google. I suspect the first few results for "JSON" give a good overview.

There really isn't a great place to import movie ratings so rather than losing the data completely, some format was better than nothing. The hope is that this JSON format is generic enough that you (or someone else) could manipulate the data into the required format in order to import the data into <FILL_IN_COOL_MOVIE_SITE_OR_APPLICATION_HERE> with relative ease. Time will tell.

[Knaldskalle]

I know imdb lets you export ratings as a csv-file and I know at least one site that'll let you import your imdb ratings (it does so directly from imdb, so I don't think a csv-file is actually involved there).

So why not "add" to your neat idea by creating another script that converts from JSON (which is an unknown format to me) to a csv-file? I know that kinda defeats the purpose, but csv-files are currently easier for us end-users to handle (we can import them into a generic spreadsheet for instance).

[skorens]

i added csv export as well.

[guthrie]

skorens: Thanks for the script, but I ran it, and although Netflix reports that I have rated 3232 movies, I only got back 512 from your script. I haven't paged through their online list to compare, but - any ideas?

[Janes'_kid]

Back in my early days with Netflix I wanted a list of when I received and when I returned each movie so I made an excel file where I record this information and the rating I give each movie. I think you would need to be somewhat skilled with excel to copy your rental history into an excel file but I've seen it done (or perhaps it is my lack of skill that makes me think this way.).  BTW, Netflix's file of  my rental history only goes back to 2008 even though I started in 2006.