Bring in your film history from anywhere, with Claude or ChatGPT

Late Feature reads Letterboxd, Netflix, AMC and Plex directly. Everything else turns up in a shape nobody plans for: a watch-history page, a ratings file, a pile of booking emails, a note on your phone. An AI assistant can read all of those, and Late Feature gives it two tools for exactly this job: one matches up to 50 titles at a time, the other brings the films you’ve confirmed into your diary.

Once: connect Late Feature

Add Late Feature to Claude or ChatGPT (or Claude Code, or any app that takes MCP connectors), sign in and click Allow. It takes a minute, and there’s no key to copy. How to connect it.

Then: hand it your history

1. Give it what you have. Attach a file, paste a screenshot, paste the text of a page, or just type the list.
2. Say what you want. For example, “Add these films to my Late Feature diary on the dates shown.” Say so if the dates aren’t when you watched.
3. Answer its questions. It matches every title in one go and comes back with the ones that could be more than one film (Cronenberg’s Crash or Haggis’s?) or that it couldn’t find. In Claude and ChatGPT these come as a card: your titles along a strip of film, each film to choose between with its poster, director and running time. Tap the right one, or tell the assistant.
4. It brings them in. The films it matched go straight in; your answers go in when you tell it, or when you tap Bring in on the card. Then it shows you what it logged and what was already in your diary.

Where to find your history

• Prime Video. On the Prime Video website, Account & Settings has a Watch history page for each profile. Screenshot it, or select the page and copy it in. It mixes films and episodes; the assistant leaves the episodes out.
• IMDb. No assistant needed: export Your Ratings (or your Watchlist) from IMDb and drop the CSV on Sources → IMDb, which matches each film by its IMDb id.
• Cinema tickets. If your assistant can search your email (Claude and ChatGPT both can, once you connect Gmail), ask it to find booking confirmations from your cinema. Each one names the film and the showing. For AMC, the AMC import is quicker.
• Another app or a spreadsheet. Any export with titles in it works: another tracker’s CSV, a spreadsheet you kept, a list in your notes app.
• Disney+, Max, Apple TV and most others have no history page or download. The closest you’ll get is a screenshot of Continue Watching or your purchases, or the films you remember. For the rest, Late Feature’s Catch up quiz asks about films you’ve probably seen.

Things to say

• A screenshot or a copied page: “Here’s my Prime Video watch history. Add the films to my Late Feature diary on the dates it shows, and skip the TV episodes.”
• An IMDb ratings export: “Here’s my IMDb ratings export. Add every film to my Late Feature diary as seen, with no dates, and halve the ratings into stars.”
• Cinema booking emails: “Search my email for cinema booking confirmations and add each film to my Late Feature diary on the date of the showing.”
• A list from memory: “I’ve seen all of these but don’t remember when: Heat, Arrival, Past Lives, In the Mood for Love. Add them to my Late Feature diary.”

How it stays right

• No guessing. A title is matched by itself only when exactly one film has that exact title, had come out by the day you watched it and fits the year, if there is one. Anything else comes back to you as a question.
• No made-up dates. A film without a date goes in as seen, with no date, and only if it isn’t in your diary already. It counts towards your films and directors but not towards any one day.
• Nothing twice. A film with a date within a day of an entry already there is that same viewing and only fills in what the entry lacked, so sending the same list again adds nothing.
• Nothing removed. The assistant can add and rate, never delete. The Sources page counts what it brought in, and Sources → AI assistants lists every app you’ve connected, with a button to disconnect it.

Long histories

The assistant works through a long list 50 films at a time. If it stops part way, say “keep going”. Some ChatGPT plans let custom connectors read but not write; there, ChatGPT can match the films and tell you what it found, and Claude can bring them in.

When an importer is better

If your history is on Letterboxd, Netflix, AMC or Plex, use the importer: it reads the whole file at once and knows each service’s quirks. Every way to get your history in.