https://github.com/ArabCoders/watchstate
I use this one for my Emby server and it keeps track of what we watch, and so far so good. I made it our Trakt.tv replacement and have no complaints so far.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
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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.
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.
I use Tautulli, but I'm not sure if that is going to cover all the same use cases.
There's Ryot.
Besides that, there's also Movary, which has contributions from yours truly, but it only supports tracking movies at the moment. I'm planning on adding TV show support later, probably after the first stable 1.0 has released (In my mind it'll probably be major release 2.0 or 3.0). The main dev and I don't have much time these days, so it might take a while...
I think I tried out mediatracker but switched to watcharr because of how much faster it was but I just tried out the demo for mediatracker and it seems to buy much faster than what I remember maybe will try it out again
+1 for Watcharr
If I remember right, the Kodi addon for Mediatracker doesn't work, which would be a dealbreaker for me as we watch everything via Kodi debrid addons.