python-plexapi VS SportScanner

Oh shit! I never even bothered to look because I asked a long time ago and was given and emphatic no. It looks like there is a playlist class. So I'll have to play with that and see what it can do.

I wanted a way to pick a random album from a collection and tell the Plexamp client connected to my speakers to play it. I wrote a detailed post about a simple way and a fancy way to do this using the unofficial Python Plex library.

It is the library agent change this guy was on the right track https://github.com/pkkid/python-plexapi/issues/534

Sources: https://python-plexapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://github.com/pkkid/python-plexapi

There's no in the box option for that, but you can easily make something that can do it with things like the python plex api. Get random movie, send play command with offset for some random point. Sleep some random amount of time. Send a stop command and repeat the previous steps.

You should look into the python PlexAPI wrapper library. Here is an equivalent script using PlexAPI.

I am not sure if there is an official way most people do this, but I think the best bet would be to use data directly from plex - https://python-plexapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/server.html#plexapi.server.PlexServer.sessions to loop through every so often and get a list of current sessions (currently playing media). Once that goes empty start a timer for shutdown. If a session starts again end the shutdown, you could even look at to see if something is "paused" and have a different shutdown time for paused vs nothing playing if you really wanted.

Use SportScanner. Get the naming convention from SportsDB.

I know it is here https://github.com/mmmmmtasty/SportScanner

I use SportScanner. Name your files the way they are named in thesportsdb.com

Create your own metadata agent that calls to your web server to get the image to add to the metadata. I'm not aware of any formal documentation that still exists for creating metadata agents. This archive of dev.plexapp.com might help: https://web.archive.org/web/20150113085312/http://dev.plexapp.com:80/docs/agents/models.html, but you may be stuck with looking at existing agents (like SportScanner.bundle) to see real examples of how to grab images for Plex to use.

Sports: https://github.com/mmmmmtasty/SportScanner (no longer maintained... I started an espn agent, but haven't finished it: https://github.com/ReenigneArcher/ESPN.bundle)

Trying to get SportScanner working without much luck. I had it in the wrong folders originally but got that worked out.

I assume you've got the Scanners and SportScanner.bundle folders in the wrong locations. The installation instructions are fairly clear.

Try SportScanner.