python-plexapi VS plex_autoscan

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.

2023-03-06 08:29:39,951 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --config=config/config.json 2023-03-06 08:29:39,951 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --logfile=autoscan.log 2023-03-06 08:29:39,951 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --loglevel=INFO 2023-03-06 08:29:39,951 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --queuefile=queue.db 2023-03-06 08:29:39,951 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --cachefile=cache.db 2023-03-06 08:29:39,970 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --config=config/config.json 2023-03-06 08:29:39,970 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --logfile=autoscan.log 2023-03-06 08:29:39,970 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --loglevel=INFO 2023-03-06 08:29:39,971 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --queuefile=queue.db 2023-03-06 08:29:39,971 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --cachefile=cache.db ___ __ / | __ __/ /_____ ______________ _____ / /| |/ / / / __/ __ \/ ___/ ___/ __ `/ __ \ / ___ / /_/ / /_/ /_/ (__ ) /__/ /_/ / / / / /_/ |_\__,_/\__/\____/____/\___/\__,_/_/ /_/ 2023-03-06 08:29:40,097 - INFO - AUTOSCAN [140352731267072]: ######################################################################### # Title: Plex Autoscan # # Author: l3uddz # # URL: https://github.com/l3uddz/plex_autoscan # # -- # # Part of the Cloudbox project: https://cloudbox.works # ######################################################################### # GNU General Public License v3.0 # ######################################################################### 2023-03-06 08:29:40,102 - INFO - PLEX [140352731267072]: Requesting section info from Plex... 2023-03-06 08:29:40,119 - ERROR - PLEX [140352731267072]: Issue encountered when attempting to list detailed sections info. 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If possible try to change the name after re encoding, and trigger a partial scan. https://github.com/l3uddz/plex_autoscan

If you use sonarr/radarr you can add a post processing script to have plex scan only the updated file - https://github.com/l3uddz/plex_autoscan

For those that are using the plex_autoscan python script from Github, the --scan and --refresh commands that are called from the script are deprecated and due to be removed soon.

For those that are using the plex_autoscan python script from Github, I modified mine to use the webhook instead of calling the exe directly. Everything else about the script still works as advertised.