plex-api
Unofficial Plex API Documentation (by Arcanemagus)
Kometa
Python script to update metadata information for items in plex as well as automatically build collections and playlists. The Wiki Documentation is linked below. (by Kometa-Team)
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plex-api
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CLI Help - Edit metadata for movie
No connection string necessary, you just have to open com.plexapp.plugins.library.db, which is in the 'Plug-in Support/Databases' folder inside your data directory. Though depending on the context of your original question, it may be easier to just use the web api. Based on the request the web app makes, it will be something like PUT [host]:[port]/library/sections/[section]/all?type=[type]&id=[metadata_id]&summary.value=[url encoded summary]&summary.locked=1&X-Plex-Token=[token]. Not sure if type is needed, but if it is, you can find the values here.
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Custom Agents?
If you want to connect to the API then look for projects like python-plexAPI or the plex-api wiki maybe even the Plex-Meta-Manager can give you pointers on how to get metadata from the outside into plex because that is what it actually does.
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Headless plex client on raspberry pi zero 2 with hardware buttons
using the undocumented api I was able to get a user id & token ( Plex Web API Overview ยท Arcanemagus/plex-api Wiki (github.com) )
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I made Physical Plex Player Controller
I was able to utilize the HTTP Request component to send control commands to a plex player (macOS Plex Player) using the Plex API. This allows me to directly control the volume, playback and track with two momentary buttons (volume up and down) and a 3-way toggle switch (pause, play, next track). I've published my yaml file to github. The script in the yaml needs to be populated with the server IP address and the 'X-Plex-Target-Client-Identifier' which is the ID of the player being controlled. To find this ID, navigate to http://server_IP_address:32400/clients in the browser, look for the 'machineIdentifier' value of the player to be controlled. Copy that value to the script in ESPHome. Not every player can be controlled, the 'protocolCapabilities' value indicates to what extent each player can be controlled.
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Share/exclude label
Where {section} is the library section, {type} is the media type, and {id} is the item's metadata id. The [ and ] also have to be urlencoded, so a full request might look something like this:
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Can you program Plex Plugins yourself?
For example, the plex web API can show you which endpoints to hit to do certain things.
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What are y'all's favorite things about using PLEX over other streaming platforms?
I like how you can use things like the web api and the python plex api to make things to do anything you can think of.
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Any working google assistant methods for playing plex?
Are you capable of doing simpleish programming? If so, the there is always the google home API + the plex api and creating you're own skill to do it. If you're looking for something ready made then phlex is the only option I'm aware of on that front. The custom skill way is a good way to learn some basic programming and also how to create google/alexa skills if you have to go that route.
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Preview of a Audiobook player I've been working on
Plex has a API https://github.com/Arcanemagus/plex-api/wiki/Plex-Web-API-Overview
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Plex folks, any plans for enabling the ability to edit metadata on your mobile apps?
There's no official documentation, but yes. There is some unofficial documentation here, and as an example, the following would change the title (and lock the field) of the item with a metadata id of 365480 in the library with a section ID of 3:
Kometa
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- Where is the Christmas Playlist that usually shows up this time of year?
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Netflix Top 10 in Plex?
Download everything from my repo and from PMM repo
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FlixPatrol has gone premium, any alternative for PlexMetaManager?
Digging into it more and more I discovered the FlixPatrol option to get the tops from the mainstream providers, and I know for sure this would be much appreciated among my users, as well as myself to be honest. I got very hyped by it, only to discover that due to a recent change of policy from FlixPatrol, support for it is being dropped.
- Migrating config to use "match"
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Convenient way to enter a lot (100s of episodes) of TV metadata?
Reading through these: https://github.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager/issues/534 https://github.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager/discussions/357
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Plex-Meta-Manager: Handles collections and metadata for Plex.
- Sort/Find Movies With Metadata But No Poster
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Metadata question - what happens when you modify file locations or upgrade movie to a higher quality version?
You then want to make a single movie library that uses the /Movies path. That way when movies are "upgraded" you don't have to have that new library download new metadata. Plex natively doesn't have auto collection creation but you can use something like Plex Meta Manager. I'd try to figure it out using their wiki but if you can't or need help they seem to have a discord. Just quickly looking you can make collections by resolution so I assume there is some way to base it on audio type.
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Best programs to use alongside Plex?
Plex Meta Manager (GitHub) for some automated library organization. This one has been a long process. It's a steep learning curve when you're first starting out, but my suggestion is to pick ONE feature and start there. That is, "I want a collection of the IMDb Top 250 Movies" and learn how to implement that, then move on to another feature you want to add. Currently, I have overlays for streaming services, audio quality, and video quality, plus collections for IMDb, award winners, filmmakers, actors, and production companies.
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Easier/external playlist creation?
The default playlist config (referred to as PMM: playlist) has the following viewing order playlists pre-configured.