UpdateTool VS plex-utills

I use UpdateTool to update the IMDb ratings daily and set the badges where they are missing.

I have IMDB Ratings on my TV Shows. You can do it with UpdateTool. But you must pay for TVDB API.

Tautulli, Plex Meta Manager, UpdateTool for IMDB

Because of this I started using Myntt's Updatetool some years back, which updates my IMDb ratings daily. You can also use Plex Meta Manager to update other ratings such as RT using the mass ratings update operation

Others have answered your questions. Juste wanted to ad that you might want to look into Plex Update Tool

IMDb all the way. Especially when paired with mynttt/UpdateTool, you can get fresh ratings constantly. I update mine every 12hrs.

I use this on my server https://github.com/mynttt/UpdateTool It updates every 12 hours

The mdblist api key should be included farther down your config.yml. More info here More info on overlays here I also recommend sporadically using UpdateTool to update the IMDb ratings of your library, as they can change quite a bit. Especially on recent movies.

plex-utils

I use the "Hide 4K" script from https://github.com/jkirkcaldy/plex-utills which sets an "untranscodable" tag on anything that only has a 4K copy and not also an HD copy. Then you can lump everything into one Movies and one TV Shows lib, and when sharing with friends, disallow the "Untranscodable" label for those you don't want streaming 4K. Script is setup to run nightly and will remove the tag if you later add an HD version.

Your after something like https://github.com/jkirkcaldy/plex-utills?

I haven't tried it myself yet, but this app will handle it automagically. https://github.com/jkirkcaldy/plex-utills

you could put a label on all 4k content and exclude that label for the users (plex-utils might be able to automate the process)

This is one of the features I'm working on for Plex-utills

--- An alternative is to run this and have a nightly "hide 4K" script run. If this is over your head then you're best off making the separate library and calling it a day.

Working on writing a script for this with the plexapi. It could probably be integrated into this repo and scheduled to run daily, but I'll get you a python script you can run manually with an "are you sure??" prompt today. The idea would be, you'd build a file with titles to never delete and then the script would show you all the other titles with a "lastViewedAt" attribute that is older than X days, with X configurable. Would that work?

Now there will be times where you have a 4K film without a 1080p version and you don’t want your users to try to transcode this file then you can use my app, Plex-utills . In there is a script that will find these files, and add an ‘untranscodable’ tag to those files. You can then use that to restrict your users access to the files.