Trakt.tv duplicate / additionnal plays bulk removal

This script allows you to remove all the duplicate or additionnal plays for your trakt.tv movies or episodes, and just keep one play per movie / episode (the oldest one).

For instance if you have 3 plays for the movie Guardians of the Galaxy at these dates:

• 2014-08-01T20:00:00.000Z
• 2017-05-05T22:00:00.000Z
• 2018-02-05T21:00:00.000Z

The script will keep the oldest play (2014-08-01T20:00:00.000Z) and remove all the others. If there are no duplicates the script do nothing. The script backup your data in local json files (movies.json and episodes.json) before doing anything.

Getting Started

Trakt.tv

Go register a new api app. And fill the form with theses informations:

Name: trakt-duplicates-removal  
Redirect uri: urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob  

You don't really care about the others fields.

Next, go to your api applications and click on the one named trakt-duplicates-removal

You will need the Client ID and the Client Secret from that page.

The script

You will need python3 and pip installed and in your path

1. Start by doing a pip3 install -r requirements.txt at the root of the project
2. Edit the script to set the client_id and client_secret variables with the ones you obtained on your trakt.tv api application
3. Edit the script to set the usernamevariable with your trakt.tv username (you can find it in your settings: https://trakt.tv/settings)
4. Optionally you can modify the types variable to run the script only for movies or episodes
5. Optionally you can keep one entry per day (per show/movie) by setting the keep_per_day variable to True
6. Launch the script:

python3 trakt-duplicates-removal.py  

Follow the script instructions

Credits

Based on https://gist.github.com/blaulan/50d462696bce5da9225b8d596a8c6fb4