The TV Time app has shut down on July 15th, 2026. TechCrunch has more details: the company behind it was bought and will switch to making “AI” tools to try to make more money.
Request an export of your TV Time data
This no longer works as the TV Time app has shut down on July 15th, 2026.
Make sure to export your data before TV Time shuts down on July 15, 2026.
Request an export of your TV Time data at https://gdpr.tvtime.com/gdpr/self-service. This export contains most of your data and should help you to import it into another service in the future.
To import into SeriesGuide, also export your TV Time data using the TV Time Out by Refract browser extension.
Keep the exported files in a safe place.
Get your TV Time data into SeriesGuide
You have two options:
- Import into SeriesGuide (see section below)
- No record of when you have watched something, only how often
- No ratings are imported
- Import your shows, movies and custom lists (movies lacking an IMDB ID or that were not watched or on your watchlist can’t be imported)
- Import into the third-party Trakt service and connect your account to SeriesGuide
- Import your watch history, watchlist, and ratings
- Trakt lists can currently not be synced with SeriesGuide (vote for this feature)
Export with TV Time Out, transform and import into SeriesGuide
Get the JSON files you have exported with the TV Time Out by Refract browser extension before the shutdown.
These JSON files then must be transformed to a structure that SeriesGuide understands.
Transform the exported JSON files using TV Time to SeriesGuide JSON Transformer.
If you want to create an appropriate JSON file yourself
The recommended values to import shows from TV Time are:
[
{
"tvdb_id": 332331,
"title": "Altered Carbon",
"language": "pt-BR",
"favorite": false,
"seasons": [
{
"tvdb_id": 1,
"season": 1,
"episodes": [
{
"tvdb_id": 1,
"episode": 1,
"title": "Out of the Past",
"watched": true,
"plays": 1
}
]
}
]
}
]
- The
tvdb_idof seasons and episodes don’t need to be valid, but must be1or greater. Thetvdb_idfor the show must be valid (see notes on importing below). title(optional): the title of the show or episode, allows to identify a show or episode by name if migration fails.language(optional): one of the supported values. If not set, must be set per show inside the details screen of each show.favorite(optional):trueorfalseseason: the number of the season (0or greater,0for special episodes). Used to match with season on TMDB.episode: the number of the episode. Used to match with episode on TMDB.watched:trueorfalseplays(optional): watched count,0ifwatchedisfalse,1or greater otherwise.- You can provide additional values, see the documentation for all supported values. But they should get filled in by the migration process.
The recommended values to import lists from TV Time are:
[
{
"items": [
{
"externalId": "332331",
"type": "show"
}
],
"name": "A list"
}
]
externalId: the TVDB ID of a show
To import the JSON files created by the transformer tool into SeriesGuide:
From the “More” screen,
- select “Export and Import”, then
- under Import select the JSON file created by the transformer for each “Shows”, “Lists” and “Movies”
- select “Import data” at the bottom.
After importing, return to the Shows screen and manually trigger a sync to run the migration to TMDB data (you can also just wait for the next sync to happen automatically):
- select the three dots in the top right to display more options,
- select “Sync manually” and then
- select “Sync & Update”
It’s possible that some shows or episodes can’t be migrated, because they can’t be found on TMDB. See the post on TMDB migration issues for potential solutions.
What if I previously imported only lists with shows using the old transformer tool?
Note that when you import in SeriesGuide all your current data is replaced.
If you previously used the transformer tool before it supported movies, you need to re-transform the file for lists and create a new one for movies. And then only import those files, skipping the shows file.
Assuming you use the same export files you created previously and have not made any changes to your lists no data should be lost.