Fix Movie Challenge: Letterboxd detail view now blocked by Cloudflare - #3283
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| desc = "The list name taken from the URL of your Letterboxd list", | ||
| icon = "link", | ||
| default = "flanagans-best-of-2025", | ||
| default = "flanagans-faves-of-2025", |
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The default list URL that we are using moved.
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Letterboxd's /detail/by/reverse/ list view now sits behind a Cloudflare bot challenge and always returns 403, which is why the app stopped finding any movies. Switch to the plain list URL, which is still reachable, and update selectors for its markup: movies are `.posteritem` elements, titles live in a nested `.react-component[data-item-name]`, and the owner's rating is on `data-owner-rating` (0-10, 0 = unrated). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| letterboxd_list_name = config.get("letterboxd_list_name", "flanagans-best-of-2025") | ||
| letterboxd_url = "https://letterboxd.com/%s/list/%s/detail/by/reverse/" % (letterboxd_username, letterboxd_list_name) | ||
| letterboxd_list_name = config.get("letterboxd_list_name", "flanagans-faves-of-2025") | ||
| letterboxd_url = "https://letterboxd.com/%s/list/%s/" % (letterboxd_username, letterboxd_list_name) |
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Letterboxd's /detail/list page now returns 403 (Cloudflare bot block). The plain list page still works and has the same data (title, rating), so we fetch that instead.
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/detail/by/reverse/list view (and the RSS feed / per-film JSON endpoints) now sit behind a Cloudflare bot challenge and always return403, which is why Movie Challenge stopped finding any movies.https://letterboxd.com/<user>/list/<list>/), which is still reachable, and updated selectors for its markup: movies are.posteritemelements, titles live in a nested.react-component[data-item-name], and the owner's star rating is ondata-owner-rating(0-10, 0 = unrated).Test plan
/detail/...returns 403 withcf-mitigated: challenge, while the plain list URL returns 200davidehrlich/cannes-2024andvitof/new-to-me-movies-2026(e.g. "How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024)" → 10★, "Ballerina (2025)" → 6★)🤖 Generated with Claude Code