Redirect to a user's last-watched cover image

Pulls metadata about the user’s most recently watched item — useful for “Now Watching” widgets, dashboard backgrounds, and embedded user-cards.

PUBLIC endpoint — no access_token required, just your client_id. The target user’s profile must be public; private profiles return 404.

Two response modes (selected by the image query param)

Drop-in <img> example

The ?image= redirect modes are designed for <img src="…"> tags. The browser follows the 302 automatically and renders the JPG — no JSON parsing, no string concatenation, no extra requests:

<!-- Background image (1920×1080-ish) -->
<img src="https://api.simkl.com/users/recently-watched-background/12345?image=fanart&client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID&app-name=my-app-name&app-version=1.0">

<!-- Cover poster (vertical) -->
<img src="https://api.simkl.com/users/recently-watched-background/12345?image=poster&client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID&app-name=my-app-name&app-version=1.0">

JSON mode shape

The no-param mode returns the same image keys as the redirect modes — concatenate manually if you want to skip the second round-trip:

{
  "id": 17465,
  "url": "https://simkl.com/tv/17465/game-of-thrones",
  "title": "Game of Thrones",
  "poster": "17/17465posterkey",
  "fanart": "17/17465fanartkey"
}

Render as https://simkl.net/posters/<poster>_0.jpg / https://simkl.net/fanart/<fanart>_0.jpg.