Getting data from Insights

[artginzburg]

Hey, I want to get Mustapp data from the Insights tab (on iOS, it's the second button in the top right of user profile).

Like the "Hours spent" stats, which I'd then show with some other stats at my website.

Basically I want to build a "my life consists of" circular graph, but that's off-topic here

I'm not experienced in reverse-engineering private APIs (I envy people that are, that's one of the most helpful skills in engineering imho), but I'll try doing this and post here if I succeed.
If someone can help with this — let's collaborate here.

By the way, thanks @AN0NCER for starting this initiative!

Ideally, I would want to build an open-source alternative to Mustapp. Since this is already a free service with no ads whatsoever, I don't get why it's not open-source.

[artginzburg]

It was easier than expected, using mitmproxy on macOS, proxying an iOS device.

So, we got /api/users/id/{userId} that returns what's used in the Insights tab. And other user-related information.

Part of the returned data (exactly what I wanted):

{
  "hours_spent": {
    "movies": 657.8,
    "shows": 1274.5,
    "youtube": 0.0
  }
}

Another interesting thing is that it has "lists", which contains "shows", "want" and "watched", which are arrays of ids of movies/series.

It also has "rates_statistics" and "rating", "want_count", "watched_by_type". All the useful stuff is here.

P.S. Worth mentioning that if the profile is public, you can get the information without any auth whatsoever. Check this out: https://mustapp.com/api/users/id/330691

[artginzburg]

If you want to get data by username, you'd first query /api/search, get the first id from the returned list, and then query /api/users/id/{userId}. I didn't find a way to query a user by specifying the username directly.

Example

POST https://mustapp.com/api/search
Body:

{
    "query": "artginzburg",
    "types": [
        "users"
    ]
}

Returns:

{
    "products": [],
    "movies": [],
    "shows": [],
    "persons": [],
    "users": [
        330691,
        36851,
        380864,
        540755,
        136498,
        12980,
        12719,
        265668,
        1635,
        106480,
        41030,
        126543,
        115021
    ],
    "genres": []
}

Then the first id can be put into the next query,

GET https://mustapp.com/api/users/id/330691