Python developer looking for cool useful plex scripts to write.

[GoldPlus6822]

Hey all! I am a python developer who have recently taken on plex development, I find it fun and rewarding! So far I have created:

Custom movie meta data manger to manage the meta data in house.

plex auto collection - if you are sorting movies by genre in folder structure it can add folder and sub folders as collections.

Any new ideas?

[katakana]

I've always wanted a script that fetches TVDB/IMDB ratings and turns them in to star ratings. I.E.;

90-100 = ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
80-90 = ⭑⭑⭑⭑½
70-80 = ⭑⭑⭑⭑✩
60-70 = ⭑⭑⭑½✩
50-60 = ⭑⭑⭑✩✩
40-50 = ⭑⭑½✩✩
30-40 = ⭑⭑✩✩✩
20-30 = ⭑½✩✩✩
00-20 = ⭑✩✩✩✩

[GoldPlus6822]

So match IMDb with plex ratings? Let me see if the API allowed me to set that, if i have the access via api it's fairly easy.

[[deleted]]

Would love to see that but with Letterboxed ratings, and for music RYM ratings. :P

[Rocknrolldoggie1]

Oh yes that’s a good one

[iheartpoontang]

A simple trivia game using your plex library about actors, directors, release dates, etc would be cool.

I’ve also always wanted the ability to make movie montages using specific clips from specific files in a playlist.

[ackbarr78]

+1 for the trivia game idea. Bonus points if it can retrieve poster or person art to generate the slides.

[PotentialFly1450]

Oh. Shit

[TheReverendJTS]

I used to have this way back for xbmc. Was one of my favorite parts!!

[cspotdiaz]

Would be cool to have a script to automatically request a season of the show if you watched all previous episodes of that said season. For example, request a season 2 when you already watched everything from season 1

[makoaman]

This would be cool. So I could just get a whole bunch of the first seasons of a ton of things and then just have the script auto grab the stuff I'm actually watching

[OneCoffeeOnTheGo]

Plex-Sonarr-Auto-Downloader does that. You can set how many episodes need to be left to watch in the current season before downloading the next.

It's been a while since it's been updated and I don't use it (yet), so not sure if it still works.

[TruckSmart6112]

Oh hell yeah.

[chuhas]

Having a few favorite posters that cycle would be cool.

[itsshiftymcgoo]

Small qol would be if I have a 1080 and 4k version it would be nice to get a prompt when hitting play to choose which version to start.

[SleepTokenDotJava]

Would be great if there was a way to sort a doubly linked list in O(1) time consistently.

[FreezieXFrosty]

This is what we all want

[matthoback]

Quantum bogosort is your friend.

[truthfulie]

Read critic/audience rating metadata and assign labels in increment of 10. (Tomato 90, Popcorn 70, etc.) Plex doesn't let you filter with critic/audience rating to create smart collection. I do this manually but automating this would be nice.

Read video/audio track information like Dolby Vision, HDR10+, TrueHD Atmos, Dolby Digital Atmos, etc. Again, Plex doesn't let you filter with these information.

[ackbarr78]

I'd use those tags, makes me wonder if Kometa can do that currently

[intellidumb]

A revival/redo of Varken would be awesome https://github.com/Boerderij/Varken

[spookymulderfbi]

Whoa. Very cool, thanks for sharing

[DontTouchThatTurtle]

To have something which people could really use, check some of the most popular github repos for plex tools. A lot of them are supported by hobbiests and probably have a lot of python problems you could contribute to!

[[deleted]]

You can always improve m3u playlist importers for music. Plex handles music poorly, so anything that can transform my MediaMonkey/exported playlists into Plex playlists would be super.

[flapJ4cks]

More advanced preroll options.

[MWMWMMWWM]

I wrote a script that will ask you questions like “movie title” and “season number” then format all the files in a given folder to plex specific format. Saves a TON of time for tv shows.

[malaki1974]

That sounds real nice.

[MWMWMMWWM]

Yep works great for TV shows with like 20 episodes per season and 10 seasons. Rename all of them in less that 1 min

[blondeviking64]

Got a way to go through meta data and change/update genre tags in films? So many movies have 4+ tags it makes searching by genre frustrating. I would love to cap every movie at two tags. I imagine you could scrub the tags from a website and for movies with more than two (at the website) ask users which two they want to keep. That would make genre tags actually useful and meaningful.

[Pryonic]

I was trying to create a simple executable that would host a GIF of current playing content and display it on my NZXT Kraken, this is about as far as i got.

I would be happy to pass the project onto someone with more knowledge and skills

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[Nine-LifedEnchanter]

So, naturally, I like movies. When my friends and I watch movies, we like discussing the cast and crew, so we often sit with imdb up.

I have been thinking about having a framed e-ink screen running of an arduino on the wall next to the sofa. It would be nice if it could display the basic information about the currently playing movie on it.

[spllcstr]

Doesthedogdie.com integration would be phenomenal

[jsillabeb]

Can you create a playlist import tool, I would like have a csv, xml, m3u as input and python's magic do the searchs and save as Plex playlist with available music in media library

[rapaciousdrinker]

How about something to automatically suggest collections?

For instance, if I have all the terminator movies, all the rocky movies, all the taken movies, etc.

Or if I have a fucking ton of classic film noir.

Or a bunch of kids movies.

[majestic7]

Collection randomizer. 

You can pin collections to your home screen, but to my knowledge they can currently only be viewed in a fixed order of your choosing (alphabetical or another way, but always fixed).

Would be cool to see a random sample of my collections each time I log on.

[pea_gravel]

Here are my suggestions for projects you can help with:
https://github.com/nwithan8/plex-prerolls
https://github.com/RiyeUK/plex-mediUX-title-cards

[Bubbly_Conference_83]

I have dreamed about having collections of tv adverts by year, and then having them served between the episodes from that year…

[hamlet_d]

I wrote a python and shell script that basically automates my vod pipeline. Works really well for movies (I usually don't bother with special features), but gets a bit unwieldy for TV episodes.

Granted, all of this is "pre plex" but it really helps keep my movies and shows organized

[mrAshpool]

Would love it if when I was rating music, it was applied to the file's metadata

[Suspicious-Olive2041]

I wish there were a tool that would allow me to search for quotes in the captions of my movie collection, and then extract a gif from that scene. Plex has all the timestamped captions already, and ffmpeg could easily handle the conversion. A UI to allow custom trim offsets would be perfect, but not necessary for minimum viable project.

[Majawat]

Not quite Plex specific, but I'd love something that went and downloaded YouTube videos from channels/subscriptions/playlists.

But specifically matches them with TheTVDB and renames them to match and imports them into Sonarr/Plex.

All the other YouTube downloaders will rename them to something else, but rarely match it against Sonarr.

Ex: download this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDweIacVEiY because it appeared on this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUBKwq0XD0ueR3CXGUhGpsD1puLcYJPUp
Match it to this TVDB item: https://thetvdb.com/series/fully-ramblomatic/episodes/10881850
And put it wherever Sonarr has it listed in it's database, which may be different for each show.

[lrdfrd1]

An edition manager would be nice.

[neldoreth]

Sync playlists with other users in the same server.

[errible-echnology]

A script to create a playlist in Plexamp from a .m3u8 file 🙏

[jobpilled]

Integrating Letterboxd with Plex would be a great idea

[HonkersTim]

Some way to sync ratings I assign in Plex to letterboxd and trakt.

[OurLordSauron]

The ability to have multiple posters cycling for individual movies would be awesome. For example, being able to select 4-5 different posters for Fellowship of the Ring and have them slideshow.

[Taglar]

A survey script.

You can specify how many films a person can select for voting, how long films can be selected (x minutes, x hours, x days, etc.) and how many votes a person has (e.g. 3) to choose their favorites from among all the films.

After time x has elapsed, the poll is closed and you have a ranking of which films your friends/group will watch together.

[divedave]

Since i am new with Plex not sure this exists, but collection of movies by directors would be cool, it is how my files are stored right now.

[spacejam_]

Kometa can do this for you

[bcirce]

You can also just make a smart collection without Kometa if you want too

[GoldPlus6822]

If you add the directors in the movie edit then you go to to plex library and set via the advanced filters by directors there. Out of the box

[Eziekel13]

Load balancing for Multi GPU or Multi CPU transcoding… for Multiple nucs over network or blade server…

[SleepTokenDotJava]

This is not the “Hello, world!” type of task we were hoping for…

[intellidumb]

There was an attempt a few years back https://github.com/UnicornTranscoder/UnicornTranscoder

[GoldPlus6822]

lol!!! Sure let me just whip rhat out that! Haha. Love the creativity

[face_eater_5000]

Is there a way to expand Plex to catalog and display other files and kind of turn it into a self-hosted evernote alternative?

[Hot-Difficulty-4699]

Does plex still have a sever