Trakt
Trakt is the personal media database for movies and TV. Its API v2 (api.trakt.tv) exposes ~150 endpoints across movies, shows, seasons, episodes, people, search, lists, calendars, recommendations, comments, notes, scrobble, checkin, and full per-user sync (history, watchlist, ratings, collection, favorites, playback progress). Authentication is OAuth 2.0 via Authorization Code or Device flows. The platform powers the Trakt website, official Android/iOS apps, and a large third-party ecosystem of media-center plugins and trackers.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Trakt the way a machine reads it — 77 machine-readable artifacts across 22 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Trakt scores 65.8/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Trakt
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Trakt. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 22
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Trakt Calendars API
Upcoming and recently aired schedules for shows, episodes, and movies.
Trakt Certifications API
Movie and show certification reference data.
Trakt Checkin API
Lightweight social "now watching" check-ins.
Trakt Comments API
Comment threads, replies, likes, reactions.
Trakt Countries API
Country reference data.
Trakt Episodes API
Episode metadata, ratings, comments, watching.
Trakt Genres API
Genre reference data.
Trakt Languages API
Language reference data.
Trakt Lists API
Trending, popular, and personal lists.
Trakt Movies API
Movie metadata, trending, watched, anticipated, popular, ratings, related, people.
Trakt Networks API
Television network reference data.
Trakt Notes API
Personal notes attached to media items.
Trakt OAuth API
Authorization Code and Device OAuth flows.
Trakt People API
Person metadata, filmography, lists.
Trakt Recommendations API
Personalized recommendations for movies and shows.
Trakt Scrobble API
Start, pause, and stop scrobbles for movies and episodes.
Trakt Search API
Text and ID lookup across movies, shows, episodes, people, lists.
Trakt Seasons API
Season-level metadata and episodes.
Trakt Shows API
Show metadata, trending, watched, anticipated, popular, progress, seasons, episodes.
Trakt Studios API
Studio reference data.
Trakt Sync API
History, watchlist, ratings, favorites, collection, playback progress.
Trakt Users API
Profiles, settings, follows, friends, social activity, comments, watching.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Trakt API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Trakt Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Trakt Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Trakt Finops
FINOPSFeatures 11
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Comprehensive media catalog
Movies, shows, seasons, episodes, people, studios, networks, certifications — all keyed by trakt/imdb/tmdb/tvdb ids.
Per-user sync
history, watchlist, collection, favorites, ratings, and playback progress with /sync/last_activities delta detection.
Scrobble lifecycle
Start/pause/stop API with 80% completion semantics, dedupe, and resume-from-pause via /sync/playback.
Personalized recommendations
/recommendations/movies and /recommendations/shows return tailored suggestions per-user with hide/dismiss support.
Calendars
Public (all) and personal (my) calendars for shows, new shows, season premieres, finales, and movie releases.
Discovery surfaces
trending, popular, anticipated, hot, box office, streaming for both movies and shows.
Social graph
Follow/unfollow, friends, social activity feeds, comments, replies, likes, reactions, sentiments.
Lists
Trending and popular lists plus full CRUD for personal lists with sorting and item-level notes.
Notes (VIP)
Attach private notes to movies, shows, seasons, episodes, people, or history items.
Checkin
Lightweight social "now watching" status that auto-expires after the runtime.
OAuth 2.0
Authorization Code flow for web/server apps and Device Code flow for TV/console/CLI apps.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Trakt Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Trakt API Rules
SPECTRALTrakt API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 5
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Trakt Episode
JSON SCHEMATrakt Movie
JSON SCHEMATrakt Scrobble Event
JSON SCHEMATrakt Show
JSON SCHEMATrakt User Profile
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 3
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Trakt History Structure
JSON STRUCTURETrakt Movie Structure
JSON STRUCTURETrakt Show Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 8
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Trakt Addtohistory Example
EXAMPLETrakt Getmovie Example
EXAMPLETrakt Scrobblestart Example
EXAMPLETrakt Searchtext Example
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 7
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Media center scrobbling
Plex, Kodi, Jellyfin, and custom media centers report playback to /scrobble so a user's watch history stays accurate across devices.
Personal media tracker
Mobile and web apps showing what a user has watched, what's next, and what's anticipated.
Recommendation engines
Apps that combine Trakt history with their own ranking to suggest the next thing to watch.
Watchlist management
Cross-device watchlist with VIP-only note attachments per item.
Calendar integrations
Subscribe to per-user calendars and surface upcoming episodes in third-party calendars or notifications.
Social discovery
Browse trending lists, follow other users, and comment on shows.
AI agents / MCP
Multiple community MCP servers expose Trakt to LLM agents for "what should I watch next" workflows.
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Integrations 7
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
TMDB
Trakt cross-references TMDB IDs and recommends TMDB as the upstream metadata source for media reports.
IMDB
All movies and many shows include their IMDB ID for downstream lookup.
TVDB
Shows and episodes include TVDB IDs for legacy media-center compatibility.
JustWatch
/movies/{id}/watchnow/justwatch_links/{country} returns deep links into JustWatch for streaming availability.
Plex
Official Plex-Trakt-Scrobbler bridges Plex playback events to /scrobble.
Twitter / Mastodon / Tumblr
Scrobble + checkin requests accept a sharing object that crossposts the activity.
Discord
Official trakt/discord-presence project surfaces Trakt activity as Discord rich presence.
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Solutions 4
Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.
Packaged solutions this provider offers.
Free
Personal use with the 2026 limits — 250 watchlist items, 5 personal lists, 100k history items, 10k ratings, 100 notes.
Trakt VIP
$30 first year, $60 renewal — 5000 watchlist items, 100 personal lists, watchlist notes, year-in-review reports, no ads.
Trakt VIP EP
$1500 lifetime support tier.
Commercial use
Approval-required for apps that monetize Trakt data or generate significant traffic — contact support via the Trakt forums.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Trakt — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 20
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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