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Serializd & Backloggd Diary Export CSV

Serializd and Backloggd have no export button. Get your TV and game diary out to a CSV in one click. Runs locally.

Works on
Chrome
Version
3.0.3
Add to Chrome

Serializd will import a TV log but never hand it back, and Backloggd has no export at all, so years of entries sit where you can't reach them. This adds an Export to CSV button to the page you're already reading and writes the entries into a spreadsheet file.

Serializd (TV) lets you import but never export, and Backloggd (games) has no export at all — so your logging is stuck inside them. This gets it out.

Open your diary, log, or a list on Serializd or Backloggd, click Export to CSV, and the extension reads the entries on the page — title, rating, date — and saves them as a CSV you can keep, back up, or move elsewhere. It reads only what's on the page you're viewing; nothing is uploaded.

Independent extension, not affiliated with Serializd or Backloggd.

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What it does

  • Export your TV diary (Serializd) or game log (Backloggd) to CSV.

  • Captures title, rating and date for the entries on the page.

  • Works on diary, log and list pages.

  • Runs entirely in your browser

    no login, no servers, no tracking.

When you'd reach for it

  • Backing up a TV diary you've been keeping for years

    Open your diary on serializd.com and scroll until the entries you want are on screen. The button sits at the bottom-right corner of the page; one click reads what's rendered and saves serializd-diary.csv to your downloads folder. A toast tells you how many entries went in, so you can check the count against what you can see.

  • Getting a game log out of Backloggd

    Backloggd has no export path of any kind, which makes a played list hard to keep anywhere else. Open the log or a list page, click the same button, and you get backloggd-diary.csv with one row per game. From there it opens in Sheets, Numbers or Excel and can be reshaped for whatever tracker you're moving to.

  • Exporting one list instead of the whole account

    The export always reflects the page in front of you, not your entire account. Open a single list, export it, then open another list and export that one. Repeat exports keep the same base filename and get numbered rather than overwritten, so the second file arrives alongside the first.

How to use it

  1. 01Open your diary, log, or a list on serializd.com or backloggd.com.
  2. 02Click Export to CSV at the bottom-right.
  3. 03The CSV lands in your Downloads.

Permissions & privacy

Single purpose

Single purpose: Export the TV/game diary entries on the current Serializd or Backloggd page to CSV. Permission — downloads: save the CSV via chrome.downloads. Permission — storage: local preference only. Host permissions — https://serializd.com/*, https://backloggd.com/*: read the entries shown on the page. No <all_urls>. Remote code: None. Data collection / transmission: None. Read and exported locally only.

downloadsSaves files to your Downloads folder.

Reads only the entries shown on the Serializd or Backloggd page you have open and, on request, writes a CSV to your Downloads. Nothing is stored or sent anywhere. It runs only the code shipped inside the package — no remote code is fetched.

Questions people ask

how to export serializd diary to csv

Open your diary, log or list page on serializd.com, then click Export to CSV in the bottom-right corner. The entries visible on that page are read straight from the DOM and saved as serializd-diary.csv in your downloads folder, with no Save As dialog. The same button appears on backloggd.com and produces backloggd-diary.csv.

Does Backloggd have an export feature?

Backloggd itself doesn't offer one, which is why this extension injects a button of its own on backloggd.com pages. It reads the game entries already rendered on the page rather than calling any Backloggd API. That means it works on whatever page you happen to be on: your log, a list, or a profile grid.

What columns does the CSV file contain?

Three: title, rating and date, with a header row. The rating is pulled as a number from whatever the page shows, and the date comes from the entry's datetime attribute where one exists, falling back to the displayed text. Fields with commas or quotes are escaped properly, so the file opens cleanly in a spreadsheet.

Why are some entries missing from my export?

Only entries currently on the page get exported, because that's all the extension can see. On a paginated or lazy-loading diary, scroll to the bottom first and let everything render before clicking. Entries with a repeated title are written once, and if the page has nothing recognisable on it you'll get a "No entries on this page" message instead of a file.

What permissions does it ask for?

The manifest declares one permission, downloads, which is what saves the finished file. Its content script is limited to serializd.com and backloggd.com and does not run anywhere else. The CSV is assembled in the page, passed to the background worker as a data URL and handed to chrome.downloads.

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