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Fetch Letterboxd films watched for the year so far and plot against watching one film a day average

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letterboxd-watch-progress

My goal is to average watching one film a day for the entire year. The purpose of this small project is to track the progress of watched films for the current year to date.

Use React + Chart.js for the frontend and a Flask server to scrape my Letterboxd diary page to get my logged entries. Using this I plot a chart with two lines: an average line for watching one film a day, and a line for the number of films I have actually watched.

Above the chart are three status boxes stating:

  1. The current day of the year
  2. The number of films I have watched so far
  3. Whether I'm ahead or behind and by how much

I use a cronjob to fetch my diary entries at 5am every morning, the cronjob is not included within this repository but can easily be added using crontab -e on Mac/Linux with the following line 00 05 * * * <python_path> <path_to_project>/letterbox/api/letterboxd.py.

Personalising the data

In letterboxd/api/letterboxd.py change the value of username to your Letterboxd username.

TODO: Update and correct below

https://saqibameen.com/deploy-python-cron-job-scripts-on-heroku/ as reference for for adding clock to Procfile using heroku ps:scale clock=1.

Running the app

First build the React project using yarn build. Then start the Flask api with yarn run start-api and run the React app with serve -s build. To view the project navigate to localhost:3000 or whichever URL the serve tells you the app is available at.

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