r/Simkl

Hi guys, in the past year, I have changed my tracking services film/tv watchlist multiple times. It is such a pain.

Right now, I'm using all 4 services: Trakt, Plex, JustWatch, Reelgood. This is temporary. Trakt, Plex, and Reelgood have 100% of my history. Justwatch is partial.

What I'm looking for:

1. Free tier only.
2. Able to download watch list. Can be either csv/json export, or API call.
3. Able to upload watch list. Can be either csv/json import, or API call.
4. Has subscribed or favorite streaming services, so I check if movies I want to watch are on my streaming services.
5. (Nice to have) Track by date, so I can run analysis and trends.

For 2 & 3, I can do this with Trakt and Plex. I use AI to manipulate the data, so I am ok with either data or API calls.

For 4, I was using Reelgood, but also started to use Justwatch last year.

For 5, this is nice to have, and very easy with Trakt.

Basically, I have to use 2 services to meet my needs. I was thinking about using Trakt and JustWatch.

Then I started to check around. I learned about Simkl. Any gotchas I should be concerned with?

I've noticed that when I watch shows I downloaded for offline use on my tablet from Plex they do not get marked as watched when I finish. I obviously don't expect it to scroble in real time but MDBList for some reason will mark the episode of watched after the fact when I am back online.

Is MDBList doing something different than allows for this to happen that SIMKL is missing? This is obviously not the end of the world, just something I noticed in my use of both SIMKL and MDBList since I moved away from Trakt. (pretty sure Trakt did this as well)