Now with Trakt doing their best to get rid of their non-paying users, I’m looking for self-hosted alternatives to track my movie/show catalog and my progress in watching it.

So far, I’ve found:

  • devfake/flox - the original, hasn’t been updated in 5 years
  • Simounet/flox - fork of flox - started further development early 2024, added ActivityPub, reviews and some more features
  • MediaTracker - “highly inspired by flox” and also tracks books and computer games

These all come with (one-way) Plex integration to track what you’re watching.

Before trying all the other ones mentioned in MediaTracker’s README - is anybody using one of those already? Or some similar product?

EDIT: Suggestions from this thread:

  • gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com
    3·
    19 hours ago

    Is there any reason you want a self-hosted service for this rather than making an account with TMDB or TVDB? Trakt fetches all of its metadata from those 2 sites (it prioritizes TMDB).

    Not that you shouldn’t self-host an alternative, but you don’t have to.

    • mbirth@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      4·
      18 hours ago

      I’d like to track these things:

      • movies/shows I’d like to see at some point
      • movies/shows I have in my collection
      • movies/shows I have watched (and when/how often)
        • and they should automatically get removed from the watchlist once watched

      I believe TMDB only does the first. And self-hosting makes sure the data stays under my control and the service doesn’t vanish or gets paywalled anytime soon.