Your TV Time export still works.
TV Time is gone. If you pulled your data out before it went, Bingr reads that file — and Trakt’s, and Simkl’s. Years of ticked episodes come back as a library you can pick up tonight.
It reads columns, not formats
Bingr has no TV Time parser, and that is deliberate. Every tracker names its columns differently, and each one renames them across versions. So the importer reads your header row and recognises roles instead:
- The show
- A title, or a TMDB, TVDB or IMDb id. A year alongside the title helps when two shows share a name.
- The episode
- A season and episode number, or an absolute number — the way anime exports count.
- When you watched it
- Optional. Read the next section for what happens when the export leaves it out.
Which means a TV Time export works, a Trakt or Simkl one works, and so does an export from something we have never heard of — as long as its columns are named sensibly. A file we cannot read tells you which role it is missing, rather than failing at you.
A history with no dates keeps its shape
Plenty of exports don’t say when you watched each episode. Dropping those rows on today’s date would flatten five years into one afternoon, and every chart you own would be a lie about the day you signed up.
So an undated row is dated by the episode’s own broadcast instead, and the import counts those rows separately so you know how much of your history is an approximation.
It tells you what it couldn’t place
When it finishes you get the count of episodes added, the count of shows matched, and then every show it failed on — by name, with the reason. Not found, or several shows share that title. An import that hides its gaps hands you a library nobody can repair, with a hole whose origin no one will ever find.
Nothing is written until you confirm: you see what was detected first. And running the same file twice adds nothing twice — so if you fix a row and import again, you get the fix and not a duplicate.
What you’re importing into
Not a list. Where you are in a show is what decides what you’re allowed to see: episode titles, images and other people’s reactions from beyond your point never reach your device — the server doesn’t send them at all. So the show you dropped three years ago and are about to pick up again is still unspoiled, and the room where people are talking about tonight’s episode only holds people who have actually seen it.
Didn’t get an export out in time?
Then it’s gone, and nobody can bring it back — not us, not anyone. But you don’t have to tick ten years by hand either: marking where you are in a show catches up everything before it in one gesture, so a whole library is an evening rather than a project.