/letterboxd/films/browse

POST /api/letterboxd/films/browse

Price: 5 credits

Browse Letterboxd films by facets: genre, decade, year, country, language, streaming service and ordering. Returns a list of films with alias, id, name, year and poster.

How to use it

Discover Letterboxd films by faceted filters instead of a keyword. Filter by genre, decade, year, country, language and streaming service; order by popularity, rating, release date, name or runtime. Each result has id, alias, url, name, year and image. Set count to control how many results to return.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• genre string nullable — Filter by genre (one of: "action", "adventure", "animation", "comedy", "crime", "documentary", "drama", "family", "fantasy", "history", "horror", "music", "mystery", "romance", "science-fiction", "thriller", "tv-movie", "war", "western")
• decade integer nullable — Filter by decade start year, e.g. 2010 (min: 1870; max: 2030)
• year integer nullable — Filter by exact release year (min: 1870; max: 2030)
• country string nullable — Filter by country (Letterboxd country slug, e.g. 'usa')
• language string nullable — Filter by language (Letterboxd language slug, e.g. 'korean')
• service string nullable — Filter by streaming service (Letterboxd service slug, e.g. 'netflix')
• sort string — Result ordering (default: "popular"; one of: "popular", "rating", "rating-lowest", "release", "release-earliest", "name", "shortest", "longest")
• count integer required — Max number of results to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "LetterboxdFilmSummary")
• id integer nullable
• alias string required
• url string required
• name string nullable
• year integer nullable
• image string nullable
• owner_rating number nullable
• is_liked boolean (default: false)
• is_rewatch boolean (default: false)

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.