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Letterboxd Scraper API

Access any Letterboxd page using our Letterboxd Scraper API. Point one API request at a Letterboxd URL and get structured JSON back while we get past CAPTCHAs, IP rate limiting, IP blocking, and headless-browser detection through residential proxies. Get back fields like film title, release year, average rating, review text as structured JSON.

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Request 
curl "https://api.chocodata.com/api/v1/universal/get?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=https://www.letterboxd.com/"
JSON Response
200 OK 
{
  "success": true,
  "url": "https://www.letterboxd.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "content": "parsed Letterboxd page content..."
  // + more fields
}
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Letterboxd is served through the Universal Web Scraper API

You scrape Letterboxd with Chocodata's Universal Web Scraper API: point it at any Letterboxd URL and get the page back as structured JSON. Residential proxies, rotation, and retries are handled for you, with no Letterboxd-specific setup. The same API key and credits work here as on every dedicated endpoint.

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About Letterboxd

Letterboxd is a social network for film fans to log, rate, and review the movies they watch. Film, member, and list pages expose titles, average ratings, review text, watch counts, and curated lists that are valuable to extract.

Scraping note: Letterboxd film pages render server-side, but rating histograms and some stats load via separate AJAX endpoints that must be fetched individually.

Example Letterboxd page

https://letterboxd.com/film/parasite-2019/

Pass a URL like this as url= to the Universal Web Scraper API and get it back as JSON.

Fields you can extract from Letterboxd

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Common use: A film-analytics project scrapes Letterboxd film pages to compare community sentiment and average ratings against critic scores.

Everything you need to scrape Letterboxd

Residential proxies keep your own IP out of every request, the JSON comes back clean, and 1,000 free requests a month let you prove letterboxd scraper works before you add a card.

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Clean structured JSON

The Letterboxd page comes back as JSON in the parse mode you choose: auto, html, text, or json. No selectors to maintain for letterboxd scraper.

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Bypasses CAPTCHAs and anti-bot defenses

We get past CAPTCHAs, IP rate limiting, IP blocking, and headless-browser detection on Letterboxd using rotating, country-matched residential proxies, so requests look like real users and your own IP stays private.

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One API call

Scraping Letterboxd is one simple API call. The same key works across our whole web scraping API: all 235 targets, any language, no SDK required.

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Geo-targeting and JS rendering

Pass a country for proxy geo-targeting and turn on JavaScript rendering when a Letterboxd page needs it. letterboxd data api handles dynamic content and region-locked results.

Scrape Letterboxd in one API request

Point the Universal Web Scraper API at any Letterboxd page and get structured JSON back. You supply the URL; Chocodata handles the blocks, rotation, and retries that make scrape letterboxd hard to run yourself.

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Request

curl "https://api.chocodata.com/api/v1/universal/get?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=https://www.letterboxd.com/"

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "url": "https://www.letterboxd.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "content": "parsed Letterboxd page content..."
  // + more fields
}

Parameters

Letterboxd routes through the Universal Web Scraper API, so the parameters are the universal ones: the URL to fetch, an optional parse mode, and an optional country for proxy geo-targeting.

Parameter Type Required Example
url string required https://example.com
parse enum optional auto
country string optional us

Enum parameters accept a fixed set of values. For example, parse accepts auto, html, text, json.

What you can build with Letterboxd data

Once the scraping API returns Letterboxd search data as clean JSON, these are the patterns teams reach for most.

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Catalog And Metadata Aggregation

Feed Letterboxd search data into your own product or workflow for catalog and metadata aggregation.

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Ratings And Review Analysis

Feed Letterboxd search data into your own product or workflow for ratings and review analysis.

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Content Discovery

Feed Letterboxd search data into your own product or workflow for content discovery.

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Trend Tracking

Feed Letterboxd search data into your own product or workflow for trend tracking.

Why developers pick Chocodata for Letterboxd

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Fast at the tail

Median 2.6 s per request with multi-tier retry, so latency stays predictable even when Letterboxd fights back.

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Parity-checked output

The Universal scraper returns the live page faithfully in your chosen parse mode.

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One key, 235 targets

The same scraping API key that scrapes Letterboxd works across every other target, with official Node, Python, and Go SDKs.

Simple pricing that scales with you

Start free with 1,000 requests a month and 5,000 credits, no credit card. Scale on monthly plans from $19, or top up pay-as-you-go at $0.90 per 1,000 successful requests. Only successful 2xx responses are billed, and every plan covers the full scraping API: all 235 targets and every endpoint.

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Letterboxd Scraper API FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Letterboxd?

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Scraping publicly accessible Letterboxd data is generally legal in the US under the Ninth Circuit's hiQ v. LinkedIn ruling, which held that scraping public web data does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It does not override Letterboxd's own Terms of Service, which are a contract matter, so check those for your use case and comply with data laws such as GDPR. This is general information, not legal advice.

How do I scrape Letterboxd without getting blocked?

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You scrape Letterboxd without getting blocked by sending the URL to the Universal Web Scraper API, which fetches it through rotating residential proxies and retries on soft blocks. Your own IP is never used, so Letterboxd's anti-bot layer sees ordinary residential traffic instead of a server.

What data does the Letterboxd Scraper API return?

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Through the Universal Web Scraper API you get the Letterboxd page back as JSON: rendered HTML, plain text, or auto-parsed content depending on the parse mode you pass. You choose the URL, Chocodata returns the data.

How much does the Letterboxd Scraper API cost?

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The Letterboxd Scraper API costs nothing to start: the Free plan includes 1,000 requests per month (5,000 credits) across all 235 targets. After that, monthly plans begin at $19, or you top up pay-as-you-go at $0.90 per 1,000 successful requests. One request is 5 credits, and non-2xx responses are never charged.

Do I need a Letterboxd account or login?

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No Letterboxd login is needed for public pages. You point the Universal Web Scraper API at a publicly accessible Letterboxd URL with your Chocodata API key; you do not hand over any Letterboxd credentials. Login-gated content is not supported.

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