Turn your Netflix viewing history into a film diary

Bring it in

1. On netflix.com, open your profile’s Viewing Activity (netflix.com/viewingactivity, after picking the profile) and choose Download all.
2. In Reelist, open Sources → Netflix and drop the NetflixViewingHistory.csv file.

Each Netflix profile has its own history, so download it from the profile that’s yours. Dropping a newer download later updates entries in place.

Films in, TV out

Netflix lists every episode of every series alongside the films. Reelist is a film diary, so it filters out anything shaped like an episode (“Show: Season 2: Episode”) while keeping films that only look like one, such as Kill Bill: Vol. 1 or John Wick: Chapter 4. Titles TMDB doesn’t know as films go into a folded-away “likely TV” section, where you can still rescue a film that landed there.

A film watched over a few evenings shows up in the history once per sitting; those collapse into a single viewing on the first night, so they don’t read as rewatches.

When it isn’t sure

Netflix gives only a title and a date: no year, no running time. So Reelist matches a film by itself only when exactly one film with that exact title had come out by the date you watched it. Remakes and films that share a title wait for one click, rather than risk logging the wrong one. The date’s format (month first or day first) is worked out from the whole file.