Douban Skill

Exports your Douban collections (books, movies, music, games) to local CSV files because Douban killed their official API in 2018 and has no export feature. Uses the Frodo mobile API with proper HMAC auth since web scraping hits proof-of-work challenges. Handles full historical exports plus RSS for incremental syncs of recent items. No login needed, just a user ID from the profile URL. Works cross-platform with Excel-compatible UTF-8 output. Won't grab reviews or private profiles, and counts may be slightly off due to delisted items. The troubleshooting doc is thorough, documenting seven failed approaches before landing on this one. Solid choice if you're backing up years of Douban data or migrating to another system.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill douban-skill --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Douban Collection Export

Export Douban user collections (books, movies, music, games) to CSV files. Douban has no official data export; the official API shut down in 2018.

What This Skill Can Do

Full export of all book/movie/music/game collections via Frodo API
RSS incremental sync for daily updates (last ~10 items)
CSV output with UTF-8 BOM (Excel-compatible), cross-platform (macOS/Windows/Linux)
No login, no cookies, no browser required
Pre-flight user ID validation (fail fast on wrong ID)

What This Skill Cannot Do

Cannot export reviews (长评), notes (读书笔记), or broadcasts (广播)
Cannot filter by single category in one run (exports all 4 types together)
Cannot access private profiles (returns 0 items silently)

Why Frodo API (Do NOT Use Web Scraping)

Douban uses PoW (Proof of Work) challenges on web pages, blocking all HTTP scraping. We tested 7 approaches — only the Frodo API works. Do NOT attempt web scraping, browser_cookie3+requests, curl with cookies, or Jina Reader.

See references/troubleshooting.md for the complete failure log of all 7 tested approaches and why each failed.