How to export Netflix ratings?

Hello there,

For a while, I have Amazon Instant Video (with Amazon Prime) and Netflix. If you look at the available titles in AIV, they are covering most of the Netflix titles. Therefore, I decided to cancel my Netflix subscription. But wait, I do not want to lose my movie ratings at Netflix, how can I save them? Sadly, Netflix does not provide any export functionality built-in.

Here is my quick and dirty (~15 min coding) developer solution to export all the ratings in a Netflix account.

0. Open up a modern web browser (I used Safari)
1. Login to your Netflix account
2. Right click on the page and choose "Inspect Element" from the context menu
3. Click on "Console" tab
4. Paste the following code and hit enter to run *

$ = jQuery;
var pages = parseInt($('.pageNumber:last').text(), 10);

var printRatings = function(pageNo) {
  $.ajax({
    url: "http://www.netflix.com/MoviesYouveSeen?pn=" + pageNo + "&st=rt&so=1",
    success: function( data ) {
      var $rows = $(data).find(".agMovieSet.agMovieTable tr:not(:first)");
      $.each($rows, function(i,v){
        var name = $(v).find('.mdpLink').text().trim();
        var url = $(v).find('.mdpLink').attr('href');
        var rating = $(v).find('.stbrMaskFg.sbmfrt').text().split(':')[1].trim();
        console.log('\t' + rating + '\t' + name + '\t' + url);
      });
    },
    async: false
  });
};

for (var i=1; i <= pages; i++) printRatings(i);

5. After couple of seconds(depending on how many ratings you have), you will see all the movies and their ratings are displayed on your console in sorter order!
6. Copy and paste the tab separated results into a spreadsheet. (I use Google Docs)

Here is the 1 minute video to demo this snippet

That's it! You have your ratings, now you can go and cancel your subscription :)

* Use this script at your own risk.