Rented Movies Calendar
Posted on August 16th, 2006
I subscribe to Netflix and like to keep track of which movies I've seen. Netflix provides a Rental History page on their site, but its layout isn't calendar oriented. I want it to be, so I came up with Rented Movie Calendar.
Rented Movie Calendar converts your Netflix Rental History page into an ICS file that can be subscribed to from a calendar application. As with my last calendar project, SVN Calendar, it's an effort at pulling more date-oriented information into one place. I find it easier to see how many movies I've seen in the last month by looking at a calendar than by scanning through a list or table.
There's one tricky part to using this script: you need to give it your cookies file. Rented Movie Calendar uses Curl to fetch your Rental History page, but that only works if you can identify yourself as being you.
Locating your browser's cookies file and copying it into the Rented
Movie Calendar directory as cookies.txt is all that's
needed. It's an inconvenient step, but a necessary one.
Hopefully the Netflix website will one day provide ICS calendars, just like they provide RSS Feeds of recent and upcoming releases. In the mean time, this ought to serve as a "good enough" crutch.