Today I tried to create a ‘recently watched movies’ section on my homepage, using the data from my Letterboxd diary.

While developing, everything went fine. I scraped the RSS feed, because they don’t give you an API key for personal projects. Then I could convert the XML data into a JSON object, and use that to populate a list. First problem: CORS… This was easily solvable by using a free proxy like allorigins or cors-anywhere.