I believe it would just use today’s date.
The importer ignores duplicates by default now. Any import can be undone via your settings page as well if you don’t like the results. I’d also recommend making sure you have a recent automatic backup file, that’s always a good idea to have anyway.
thank you !!! i will start importing and give feedback 
Just tried, it works awesome for Movies but Series seems to not be collected, and the ones that had been collected, it collected just one episode.
Anyone is experiencing the same issue?
We don’t import into your collection at all. Which importer and file type did you use? Might be best to email support with the file so we can take a look. Please provide as many specifics that you can.
Sorry, I didn’t realize that I missed important details.
I exported my Ratings from IMDb, then I’ve imported the resulted file on Trak.
The file had 1601 “titles” (Movies, Series, Shorts, etc.).
Now, in my Trak profile I see the following:
In IMDb Ratings:
So, I see that Movies/Shorts/TV Movies/Other Stuff(maybe some Series/OVAs?) appear on Trak as Movies.
But, almost all of the series were not imported. Just 18 episodes were imported from some of those Series.
On the Import page I see the following:
Trak tracks by Episode, and I don’t have almost any Episode rated on IMDb, so it makes sense that the Series weren’t imported, but I thought that maybe all Episodes of the Series that I’ve rated on IMDb will be exported with the Series rating and appear as watched.
Makes sense?
Thanks for the details. It sounds like since there were very few actions on episodes, that is why there isn’t much data being imported. I can see what you’re saying, but if we marked entire shows as watched that would be adding a ton of data. It also wouldn’t really be accurate since we’d just assign a watched date of either today or the release date. I agree this is a limitation with the Trakt importer, but it seems like a valid limitation to me.
Yes! It looks like a valid limitation, because there is not a fix for everyone, unless you have an option to add all Episodes or not.
For example in my case, I don’t care right now about the Watched Date, I just wanted to do a full migration from my previous platform (IMDb).
I noticed something else, for example I watched Succesion and Black Spot (Series), but the Tool added two unknown movies (wihout cover image) with the same names.
But it’s probably something unavoidable.
Had a private chat going about this, but wanted to post as an FYI - It looks like Trakt shares id’s between movies and episodes (confirmed using the “Get ID lookup results” API, changing “type”). So in my CSV I had rows trying to add watched times for some episodes, but the import took these as movies instead. Maybe the import could add another column to indicate the type of item like the API has?
I saw that json-import now supports importing “rating” and “rated_at”, but after trying it I got an error:
error (undefined local variable or method `row' for an instance of Importers::Parsers::Json)
Sample:
[
{
"id": "12232363",
"watched_at": "2024-10-24T22:03:38Z",
"rating": 6,
"rated_at": "2024-10-24T22:03:38Z"
},
{
"id": "12232364",
"watched_at": "2024-10-25T01:30:08Z",
"rating": 6,
"rated_at": "2024-10-25T01:30:08Z"
}
]
If I import only “watched_at” everything works, but if I add “rating” and “rated_at” with or without “watched_at” the same error is returned.
And a related question: is there any way to find out the trakt_id without adding the movie/series/season/episode to the list and exporting to csv.
Kinda disappointed that Trakt json files are not supported yet. What is the point of having an automatic backup without a restore option? Just seems strange that json files can be imported, but not native Trakt json files.
I know you say it is in the pipeline, but do you have a rough eta yet?
I have exported from myepisodes.com but i think the data is not right, you need trakt id ?
showname,season,episode,name,status,runtime,date,airtime,airdate
"100 Questions",1,1,"What Brought You Here?",1,30,2010-05-27,20:30:00,"2010-05-27 22:30:00"
"100 Questions",1,2,"Are You Open Minded?",1,30,2010-06-03,20:30:00,"2010-06-03 22:30:00"
Can you please add myepisodes.com as imported ? I do not think i can find the ID in an easy way on each episode. Maybe allow show names instead of IDs as well ?
I am trying to use the JSON importer, but I’ve run into a pretty big issue with TV shows.
I have data like so (scraped from Serializd and parsed):
{
"id": "2288",
"watched_at": "2024-05-17T02:54:26Z"
}
The "id" here corresponds to a TMDB ID. However, this doesn’t produce the intended result. I can see why according to the docs…
If for example ID 12345 is a valid ID both for Trakt and TMDB, the Trakt entry will be used.
So then my problem is that it incorrectly matches my ID to Trakt not TMDB. For example the above ID of 2288 should be Prison Break (TV Series 2005-2017) — The Movie Database (TMDB) but incorrectly matches to Death Line (1972) - Trakt.
It’d be really nice if there was some way to specify which ID service to use. How about just allowing for an alternative field of "tmdb_id"?
This would be super helpful so that I can finally migrate from Serializd!
Many kudos for this feature!
I have been trying to convert my movie and show watchlists into trakt ids for a while now and finally was able to get them all into the id forms, but now when I try to import the shows list, they default to being movies because the ids have movie equivalents and there is no “type” indicator in the guidelines. Is there a way to specify for the list to be converted into shows for the bulk importer? Thank you so much!
@justin - Can we import personal lists?
I have a load of lists in Letterboxd that don’t exist in Trakd that I think the community would like. They are in my Letterboxd export in the ‘lists’ folder, but when I import them to Trakt they don’t get picked up.
I tried to import from TvTime and getting these error:
error (Importers::Config::Errors::InvalidDateValue)
Any suggestion?
Is it possible to import episodes with their individual watched date? As far as I could tell if I import a TV show, all the episodes will be imported with the same timestamp. Is that correct?
Hi. I need to make a manual import file. Is there a way to generate or obtain the Trakt ID for episodes/shows/movies to add to the CSV or JSON file?
I could not locate IDs from the Trakt URLs, but searching for each episode’s ID individually would be time-consuming. I can see an ID on the IMDb URL; however, I want to avoid using the IMDb ID because the import checks the ID as a Trakt ID first, meaning the IMDb ID could cause the incorrect show to be marked if that ID matches on Trakt. Not that I can obtain a list of IMDb IDs for the show anyway.
Maybe there’s a way to fetch them through the API but I’m too noob for that, but if you do wanna go the manual road, you can find them in the show page source code by ctrl/cmd+f’ing “data-show-id” and “data-season-id”, and on episode pages, you’ll find data-episode-id too
and for movies maybe it says something like data-movie-id but i haven’t checked that 
Thanks but yeah, I was trying to avoid looking up each episode individually. I was hoping it could pull like a list that shows the IDs for a show’s episodes in a season or something like that. I want to add some watch history but I don’t have an import file for it so option is manually create one or individually add, which would take longer.
I’ve imported my watch list and my rated list from IMBD, but it only imported 27 of my 800ish movies watched, is there a way to fix this or am I missing something?
