Data sources

Where the catalog comes from.

ScreenTrak displays show, movie, and anime information supplied by third-party providers under their own licenses. We don't own that metadata or artwork — and your watch history is never theirs. Here's exactly how it works.

How ScreenTrak handles provider data

Permanent internal IDs

Every show, season, and episode gets an immutable ScreenTrak ID. Provider IDs are stored as mappings — never as database primary keys — so your history survives provider changes.

Providers are replaceable adapters

Catalog data is normalized into provider-neutral records with source, license, and modification notices attached at the field level.

Everything runs server-side

Provider APIs are called from ScreenTrak's server. API credentials are never embedded in or exposed to the app on your phone.

Your history is your data

Watch history, Library, and progress are ScreenTrak user data — they're never represented as provider-owned, and providers never receive your email or viewing history.

Rights are tracked separately

Metadata rights and artwork rights are documented independently. A provider removal or valid takedown can disable an image or catalog snapshot without touching anyone's history.

TVmaze

ACTIVE TODAY

TV and anime data and images are provided by TVmaze under CC BY-SA 4.0. ScreenTrak normalizes titles, statuses, episode numbering, and artwork references into its own permanent records; search results and exports retain source, license, and modification notices. TVmaze does not endorse ScreenTrak, and its schedule data is not a promise that a show is streamable in your country.

TMDB

COMMERCIAL APPLICATION IN PROGRESS

ScreenTrak is applying for commercial access to the TMDB API for movie and television metadata and images. Under that subscription, ScreenTrak intends to use TMDB for movie and television search, title details, release information, cast and crew, posters, and backdrops.

—TMDB data is accessed server-side; API credentials are never exposed in the client.
—ScreenTrak maintains provider-neutral internal IDs; TMDB IDs are stored as mappings.
—User watch history remains ScreenTrak user data and is never represented as TMDB-owned.
—Provider data may be supplemented with legally reusable sources such as Wikidata.
—Metadata rights and artwork rights are tracked separately; TMDB does not own the underlying posters, and ScreenTrak does not own TMDB data or images.

During development and staging, TMDB is used only as an optional, attributed, non-commercial movie source. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

TheTVDB

When the optional movie fallback is enabled, metadata is provided by TheTVDB. Permanent ScreenTrak IDs and field-level provenance are kept regardless of provider.

Wikidata & Wikipedia

Wikidata supplies CC0 crosswalk identifiers and an independent confidence signal. Synopses from Wikipedia contributors are labeled and linked to their CC BY-SA license.

Artwork keeps its provider provenance and is subject to takedown handling — ScreenTrak never labels provider artwork as its own, and uses an owned placeholder when permitted artwork is unavailable. Provider metadata never grants streaming-availability rights. Full attribution is on the Credits page; how your personal data is handled is on the Privacy page.