Trakt watch history on any website.

A Trakt scrobble is a single record that a specific user finished watching a specific episode or movie at a specific time. Trakt has been recording scrobbles since 2010 and the verb has stuck around for a decade and a half. Every modern home media server can be wired into Trakt: Plex has the official Trakt for Plex agent that scrobbles every episode and movie the moment you finish it, Jellyfin has community plugins for the same job, Kodi has the venerable script.trakt addon, Infuse on Apple TV scrobbles natively in its modern versions, and the official Trakt mobile app lets you check in manually for live TV, theatrical screenings and physical media. The result is a single unified watch log that survives switching streaming services, switching media servers and switching decades. Streaming services keep your watch history locked inside their walled gardens. A Trakt scrobble history is yours, public and permanent. That is why the same kind of viewer who maintained a paper film journal in the nineties still maintains a Trakt profile in 2026: it is the watch identity layer the streaming services refuse to build because it would let users compare and leave.

Trakt was founded in 2010 by Justin Nemeth as an open scrobbling service for TV and movies, and the company has remained independently held throughout, which is unusual for a service of its scale and longevity in the streaming-data space. Trakt today exists as a scrobble log, lifetime watch stats dashboard, recommendation engine and social network for serious viewers. Trakt makes money primarily through Trakt VIP, a paid subscription that costs roughly 30 dollars per year (with an enhanced VIP EP tier at higher pricing) and removes ads, unlocks advanced filtering, exposes detailed watch stats, raises rate limits and grants access to features like calendar sync. Crucially, the Trakt API v2 is free to develop against for both Free and VIP users, but it requires OAuth Authorization Code authentication against api.trakt.tv with a registered application client ID and client secret. Poper handles the OAuth flow on your behalf with managed credentials, so you do not need to register a Trakt application. The API rate limit is 1,000 requests per 5 minutes per user, which Poper handles centrally with edge caching so a 100,000-pageview site still only generates a handful of upstream Trakt calls per minute.

The Trakt API v2 exposes two fundamentally different shapes of data. The user.history endpoint returns the last N watched episodes and movies in chronological order with timestamp, title, season number, episode number, runtime and TMDB-sourced poster art, including a special up-next flag on the next unwatched episode of any show currently in progress. This is the right view for a TV writer 'currently bingeing' sidebar, a critic's author page or a podcast host's show page where you want raw, unfiltered watch data. The user.lists endpoint returns curated custom lists that the user has built by hand, with title, description, sort order and explicit ranking. Custom lists are right for film club pages, cinephile blog posts and themed recommendation features where the message is 'these are the ten movies I picked for you' rather than 'this is what I watched yesterday'. Most pages should embed both: a small recently watched chip in the header and a larger custom list embed in the body. Poper supports rendering both from the same widget config without re-embedding the snippet.

Every Trakt title Poper renders emits the right Schema.org structured data per the official entertainment vocabulary. TV episodes emit TVEpisode with episodeNumber, partOfSeason and partOfSeries nesting, plus director, actor and datePublished. Full TV shows emit TVSeries with numberOfSeasons, contentRating and aggregateRating. Movies emit Movie with director, actor, duration, datePublished and genre. This makes the embedding page eligible for Google's video carousel rich result, knowledge panel mentions for the shows and movies you watch most, and AI Overview citations when someone searches 'what is [TV writer] watching' or 'best new shows according to [film blogger]'. Without this structured data, search engines see a generic page with poster image tags and miss the entity signal entirely. Poper also emits ItemList schema for custom lists and watchlists so themed collections are announced to search engines as ranked entities. This single change is the biggest SEO reason to use Poper instead of a static Trakt list link, which emits no structured data of any kind.

Letterboxd has cornered the movie-only journaling crowd through smart product design and a tightly curated film community, but it has one structural blind spot: it is movie-only and ignores TV episodes entirely. In 2026 that is a significant gap, because the prestige TV cultural moment that started with The Sopranos and accelerated through Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Succession and Shogun has produced a generation of viewers who treat episodic TV with the same critical seriousness as cinema. Trakt is the only mainstream watch-tracking service that treats a season of TV with the same fidelity as a feature film, scrobbling individual episode finishes rather than collapsing a full series into a single check-in. For TV writers and recap critics this is professional credibility (your episode-level taste is verifiable in real time, not summarized at the end of a season). For film clubs that program both feature films and limited series this is the only platform that can power a unified themed list. For podcast hosts who alternate weekly between TV and movies this is the only live source of recent watch data that covers both halves of their show. Embedding a Trakt feed widget converts a private scrobble log into a permanent always-on identity block on your own domain, and the timing of the prestige TV cultural moment drives a measurable spike in click-throughs to deep-linked shows during awards season every December and February.