Add syncing and/or manual import of watched history from streaming services

[mblennegard]

Idea Overview
Add syncing and/or manual import of watched history from streaming services, e.g. Netflix, HBO, Disney+ etc.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
To get a complete history of your watched movies and tv shows automatically, instead of having to register manually.

Describe the solution you'd like
Automatic background job(s) for fetching watched history from streaming services.
As streaming services vary and most likely for the possibility to handle this manually, individual settings for each streaming service as well as manual syncing should be possible.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Manually register the watched movies and tv shows.

Additional context
Maybe work from https://github.com/trakt-tools/universal-trakt-scrobbler could be re-used or integrated.

[IRHM]

Hey @mblennegard thank you for the great idea! This sounds like it would be very cool, though unfortunately I don't subscribe to any of these services.

I could take a look at some point to see if it's possible.

The browser extension you have linked, may be a good resource, depending on if it uses api endpoints that we can access too (if its just page scraping then might not be so much luck with it).

We'd probably also need to find a safe way to store user credentials too. I'm guessing most of these services don't offer a "public" api, so we may have to have users provide credentials directly in Watcharr, if there's no authentication service provided.

Would greatly appreciate any more help on this.

[mblennegard]

@IRHM

The browser extension you have linked, may be a good resource, depending on if it uses api endpoints that we can access too (if its just page scraping then might not be so much luck with it).

We'd probably also need to find a safe way to store user credentials too. I'm guessing most of these services don't offer a "public" api, so we may have to have users provide credentials directly in Watcharr, if there's no authentication service provided.

Would greatly appreciate any more help on this.

If I remember correctly from last time I looked into this (granted, that was 1-2 years ago), that project relies indeed on page scraping, by accessing an existing web session where the user is already logged in to each service.
Yeah, none of these offer any API's for the history/watched list as far as I am aware (but again, it was quite a while since I last looked into this).