How to export your Letterboxd diary and watchlist

Updated 29 September 2026 · By Sameer Sitre, who makes Trovie

Letterboxd exports your account as a ZIP of CSV files — your diary, your ratings, your reviews, your watchlist and your lists.

Steps

Go to letterboxd.com/settings/data/

1. Sign in to letterboxd.com in a browser.
2. Open Settings, then Data.
3. Choose “Export your data”, then “Export Data” in the popup.
4. Download the ZIP. Do not unzip it.

What is in the file

• The ZIP holds your films, ratings, reviews, diary entries and watchlist.
• Letterboxd tracks films, miniseries and TV movies — not returning TV series — so the export holds films.
• Your half-star ratings come across on Trovie’s 1–10 scale, so 4½ stars becomes 9.
• Trovie never reads the profile file in the archive, which contains your email address.

Matching your titles

Letterboxd files identify a film only by its name and year — no IDs. Nearly all of them match on that alone, but remakes and films that share a title need you to pick which one you meant. Trovie asks rather than guessing, and tells you how many it left out.

If it will not import

• Still stuck, or a file this page does not describe? Send it to our team from the import screen and it is imported within 3 business days.

Questions

Bring it to Trovie

Upload the file on the import page and Trovie reads it, shows you what it found, and asks about anything it cannot match on its own. Nothing you already have is overwritten, and you can undo the whole import for 7 days.

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