letterboxd-to-obsidian

created pyinstaller and made workflows on github so i could release stuff and make it compatible with different operating systems. still need to test this later from another device to make sure it actually works, and i also want to see if i can make this more official-looking by adding it as an obsidian plugin or something, not sure how that works though so i might look into it later. need to update readme as well with updated installation instructions

started building my first project ever! it’s a python program that takes your letterboxd export and turns it into a fully linked obsidian vault, complete with wikilinks for cast, director, genre, and year, all pulled from the TMDB api, and stores individual notes for each movie and larger category so you can get that graph on obsidian with the nodes and a local place to see your movies! i’ve spent way too much time on r/ObsidianMD and figured it was time i made a nice graph i could show off…

started off with some help from claude for navigating the terminal setup as i have minimal experience with that, but I made sure I could recreate it by myself the next time I had to do it.

I learned a lot about terminal commands, interpreting and automating the reading of csv files, using API keys, and dealing with different workspaces. I encountered lots of problems along the way that were mostly related to the fact that i haven’t used python in like three years after working mostly in java, it was really fun moving away from OOP for a while though!

for the next update, i’d like to fix some formatting issues on the output notes (just some header repetitions, nothing major) and building some sort of history logging system so updating the obsidian vault doesn’t require a reprocessing of all past movies all over again