Letterboxd Export to IMDb Converter

Overview

This Python 3 script takes a user's rating file (ratings.csv) exported from Letterboxd and converts it to that of IMDb's csv format. The output can then be imported to other sites which support importing from IMDB but not Letterboxd, such as Criticker and ICheckMovies. The script accesses IMDb for each entry (and also accesses Letterboxd if an initial IMDb search fails), so expect it to take at least 2-3 seconds per movie.

Requirements: bs4 (Beautiful Soup), requests, and IMDbPy.

Usage:

python3 lbd2imdb.py [-h] [-i FILE] [-o FILE]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -i FILE     ratings file exported from letterboxd, ratings.csv by default
  -o FILE     output file, output.csv by default

Known Issues

• The Release Date field is left blank in the exported csv file. The Year field is supported.
• TV Specials are labeled as movie instead of tvSpecial in the exported file.