plex-nowplaying VS lolcat

Compare plex-nowplaying vs lolcat and see what are their differences.

plex-nowplaying

A CLI script to show the "Now Playing" status of your Plex Server. (by arcadellama)

lolcat

Rainbows and unicorns! (by busyloop)
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plex-nowplaying lolcat
3 21
24 5,856
- 1.7%
4.1 0.0
about 2 months ago about 2 months ago
Shell Ruby
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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plex-nowplaying

Posts with mentions or reviews of plex-nowplaying. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-04.
  • nowplaying.sh: a simple script to show what’s playing on Plex on the command line
    2 projects | /r/PleX | 4 Aug 2022
    user@DESKTOP:~$ git clone https://github.com/arcadellama/nowplaying.sh.git Cloning into 'nowplaying.sh'... remote: Enumerating objects: 148, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (148/148), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (107/107), done. remote: Total 148 (delta 82), reused 94 (delta 39), pack-reused 0 Receiving objects: 100% (148/148), 94.39 KiB | 8.58 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (82/82), done. user@DESKTOP:~$ cd nowplaying.sh/ user@DESKTOP:~/nowplaying.sh$ ./nowplaying user@DESKTOP:~/nowplaying.sh$ curl http://localhost:32400/status/sessions Unauthorized401 Unauthorized
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 3 Aug 2022

lolcat

Posts with mentions or reviews of lolcat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.

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