👋 Introduction

At Trakt, we collect lots of interesting information about what tv shows and movies everyone is watching. Part of the fun with such data is making it available for anyone to mash up and use on their own site or app. The Trakt API was made just for this purpose. It is very easy to use, you basically call a URL and get some JSON back.

More complex API calls (such as adding a movie or episodes to your history) involve sending us data. These are still easy to use, you simply POST some JSON data to a specific URL.

Make sure to check out the Required Headers and Authentication sections for more info on what needs to be sent with each API call.

Trakt has a lot of features exposed via the API. Here are some of the terms we use, just hover over them: scrobble, checkin, history, collection, watchlist, list, favorites.