python-plexapi VS ytdl-patched

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.

If you really want to build a native, macOS app (SwiftUI or otherwise), just take a look at youtube-dl. IINA, one of popular macOS video player out there, is using youtube-dl to directly stream Youtube video.

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl - safest and best of all

yt-dlp, youtube and video dowloader (based from inactive youtube-dl)

WiiMC also supports FTP and Samba so you can just download them on your PC and use an FTP server. I've been using https://github.com/giampaolo/pyftpdlib . For downloading YouTube use https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl of course .

youtube-dl

If you want to download them, you can use the tool yt-dlp (an improved version of youtube-dl) to download the files from roosterteeth’s website. Despite the name, it’s a versatile tool that works for most public video hosting sites.

There are also hybrids which are a mix of both. For example, youtube-dl can be used as a command line program, but it's also designed to be convenient to use inside other python programs to make use of its functionalities.

I would recommend: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

YouTube DL (not really a frontend, but it allows you to privately download youtube videos)

Try https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl or the fork https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp