Letterboxd
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Letterboxd is a silo for keeping track of films and reviews in what they call a “film diary”, and supports the rel-me IndieWeb building block.
They also have the ability to create lists including watchlists (aka wants) and follow your friends.
IndieWeb Friendly
- rel-me. Letterboxd supports the rel-me building block for the link back to your personal site since at least 2023-12.
IndieWeb Examples
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IndieWeb folks using Letterboxd with some connection to their personal site, e.g. with their personal site on their Letterboxd profile (auto-linked with rel-me), or POSSE/PESOS their film reviews and watch posts.
David Mead linked on my homepage https://davidjohnmead.com
Aram ZS - Process data checkouts at build time and list reviews and enrich standalone pages with images data from TMDB.- Daniel Pietzsch is using Letterboxd to post movie reviews, and then syndicates them to his own site at https://danielpietzsch.com/watched/movies/. A custom script (i.e. a Jekyll plugin) uses Letterboxd’s RSS feed to import the info and further page scraping to get infos about the director and whether he marked a film as “Liked”.
benji used to PESOS from letterboxd to his site using this script. Now, he posts on his site directly using Sparkles and every so often uses letterboxd's import feature with a custom CSV using the format letterboxd expects to POSSE manually.
Chris Smith imported all his Letterboxd reviews and lists to his site at /films and now makes changes/writes new reviews there and manually POSSEs them to Letterboxd
Negate This PESOS their Letterboxd reviews to their site at /movies. They do this by pulling their Letterboxd RSS feed, parsing it with clojure.data.xml, extracting their review, and placing it onto the HTML for their /movies page.- Add yourself here… (see this for more details) with how your personal site interacts with Letterboxd!
How to PESOS
- Letterboxd FAQ: Can I auto-publish my reviews to other sites?
- "You can auto-publish content from your profile’s RSS feed (namely new diary entries/reviews and lists) to selected third-party services using a service such as IFTTT. IFTTT has example applets for X/Twitter, Tumblr, WordPress and others. Publishing to Facebook is no longer supported due to past policy changes."
Issues
URLs for existing Letterboxd reviews change if you review a film a second time. With one review it will be found at https://letterboxd.com/USER/film/FILM/, but once you add another that URL will start returning a 404 error and you have to use the URL https://letterboxd.com/USER/film/FILM/1/ instead. The /1/ URL doesn't work if there is a single review, so there is no way to create a permanent URL. This can be problematic if you maintain a posts-elsewhere section.