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Letterboxd Film Reviews Scraper

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Letterboxd Film Reviews Scraper

Letterboxd Film Reviews Scraper

Scrape film reviews from Letterboxd by URL, with automatic pagination and reviewer, rating, and engagement data.

Pricing

$19.99/month + usage

Rating

5.0

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Developer

PowerAI

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This actor scrapes film reviews from Letterboxd.com by URL. You provide a film reviews page URL (e.g. a film’s “reviews by activity” page). It follows pagination and extracts reviewer, rating, date, review text, and engagement (likes, comments).

Features

  • URL-based: Provide a Letterboxd film reviews page URL to scrape.
  • Pagination: Follows “Next” through all pages until the end or the max items limit.
  • Review data: For each review you get reviewer name and profile, star rating, watched/rewatched, date, review text, likes count, comment count, and links.

Input Parameters

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
searchUrlstringYesFull Letterboxd film reviews page URL to scrape
maxItemsintegerNoMaximum number of reviews to fetch

Output

A list of review objects. Each object includes:

  • searchUrl: The input URL used.
  • reviewId: Unique id for the review (e.g. viewing:123).
  • userProfileUrl: Reviewer’s Letterboxd profile URL.
  • userAvatarUrl: Reviewer’s avatar image URL.
  • userDisplayName: Reviewer’s display name.
  • ratingStars: Star rating text (e.g. ★★★), if present.
  • watchedType: "Watched" or "Rewatched".
  • reviewDate: Date of the review (ISO-style from page).
  • commentCount: Number of comments, if shown.
  • reviewText: Review body text (visible/collapsed portion).
  • fullTextUrl: URL to full review text, if available.
  • likesCount: Number of likes.
  • reviewUrl: Link to the review/film page for that user.
  • scrapedAt: When the item was scraped.

Example:

[
{
"searchUrl": "https://letterboxd.com/film/war/reviews/by/activity/",
"reviewId": "viewing:339959152",
"userProfileUrl": "https://letterboxd.com/mrmoviesrd/",
"userAvatarUrl": "https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/avatar/upload/1/0/4/8/5/7/2/shard/avtr-0-80-0-80-crop.jpg?v=82076f60ee",
"userDisplayName": "Rafael \"Mister Movie\" Jovine",
"ratingStars": "★★★",
"watchedType": "Watched",
"reviewDate": "2023-01-15",
"commentCount": "8",
"reviewText": "Statham and Li reteam for another film...",
"fullTextUrl": "https://letterboxd.com/s/full-text/viewing:339959152/",
"likesCount": 138,
"reviewUrl": "https://letterboxd.com/mrmoviesrd/film/war/",
"scrapedAt": "2025-02-06T12:00:00.000Z"
}
]

Use Cases

  • Film review aggregation and analysis
  • Sentiment or rating research for movies
  • Sourcing quotes and reviews for articles or apps