Advanced Settings
Now that you’re familiar with the basic features of Trakt, let’s dive deeper into some of the more advanced functionality. All of these features can be enabled on your settings page.
Watch & Collect Buttons
By default, adding something to your watched history and collection will use today’s date. If you click and hold, you’ll get the option to choose a more specific date. Choose from right now, release date, or an other date. Specifically for collection, you’ll also be able to choose the format, resolution, and audio by clicking the wand icon. If you prefer to always see this popup (without the long click), you can set that in the global settings.
Additional Site Ratings
View additional ratings from IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic by opting in from your settings. Movies typically have all 3 additional ratings and TV shows typically have IMDB ratings.
Dashboard
The dashboard is your main entry point to Trakt and contains a bunch of different sections. You can hide any sections you don’t use plus customize the up next and upcoming schedule sections to display what’s most useful for you.
The graphs in your last 30 day section not only look nice, they are clickable to drill down to the specific items you watched. Click on any bar graph to view that specific date in your watched history. Click any genre to view that specific genre for the last 30 days.
Hide Spoilers
Nobody likes spoilers and we’ve made it easy to avoid them when browsing around the Trakt.tv website. Once enabled in your settings, unwatched episodes, shows, and movies will have blurred out titles and descriptions throughout the site. Unwatched episodes also replace the screenshot with the show level fanart. Read the full article.
Reset Watched Progress
Reset your watched progress for any TV show. Choose right now or a custom date to recalculate your progress (and dashboard up next) starting with that date. This doesn’t remove any plays, it just adjusts the progress percentage. You can undo the reset in your settings.
Sharing & Notifications
Trakt supports automatic sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Medium. Share when you start watching, finish watching, rate, comment, or add to your watchlist. Read the full article.
Receive email, push, and desktop notifications to your browser (Chrome, Firefox, and Safari), Slack, Pushover, and Pushbullet. Get push notifications when someone follows you, @mentions you, replies to your comment, likes your comment, comments on your list, and likes your lists. Read the full article.
Personalized Calendars
Personalize your calendars to look how you want and optimize the layout based on your devices. Apply advanced filtering and receive daily or weekly email notifications. There are a ton of combinations to make the calendars useful for your workflow. Read the full article.
iCal and RSS Feeds
Here are a few advanced options to customize your iCal and RSS feeds. As a VIP member, there are 3 main places to get feeds — dashboard, user profiles and calendars. Read the full article.
Item Count
By default, iCal and RSS feeds will display the most recent 60 items. This is generally plenty, especially for notification based recipes. However, if you need to get more items just add &limit=X to the feed URL, where X is how many you want.
Calendar Full Day Events
By default, episodes will display at the exact start time when it airs. If you prefer to have full day events instead, add &full_days=true to the end of any calendar iCal URL.
Calendar Alarms
If you’d like to receive an alarm before each episode airs, add &alarm=X to the end of any calendar iCal URL, where X is the number of minutes. Make sure you have enabled alarms in your calendar app.
Collection
For the collection RSS feed specifically, you can add &metadata=true to the feed URL to return additional fields for media type, resolution, audio, audio channels, and 3D.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Become a true power user by using your keyboard. Quickly change pages, hide the sidebar, open a new search, and navigate around TV shows. Read the full article.
Support Trakt & become a VIP!
Trakt is a bootstrapped startup, directly funded by VIP memberships. Hide ads, help pay for servers, and unlock awesome VIP only features like…
- No ads on the website and official apps
- Yearly and All Time year in review
- Early access to Android and iOS apps
- Watch now notifications and filtering
- iCal, RSS, and CSV feeds
- Plex scrobbler
- Unlimited lists with up to 10,000 items
- List collaboration, notes, bulk copy, and bulk move
- Notes on media items, activities, and list items
- Automatic backups of all your data
- VIP only forums
- and lots more…
