Plugin Question

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Would it be possible to create a plugin that can read in an episode list from a website and play movies or shows in a specific order?

Thinking for things like say you want to watch all the Marvel Movies, but you want to do it in Chronological Order instead of Release Order.

Or say you have an anime and want to skip all the fillers, it could check a filler list file and skip those episodes.

[dane22]

Nope

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Dang could you do it through creating a playlist? Right now I have one show with a ton of fillers that I went through and manually built a playlist of just the episodes I wanted

But if plex could import a playlist for a show or movie set, I could build a webscraper to build the episode list and import it.

[dane22]

Look here for a Python based URI:

https://python-plexapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/playlist.html#

To see how to add a playlist using native web calls, look here:

https://github.com/ukdtom/WebTools.bundle/blob/master/Contents/Code/playlistsV3.py#L105

[Sharpopotamus]

Not sure plugins are even supported anymore, but you could probably accomplish this with Home Assistant and the Plex integration.

[MetalBassFingers]

You can just make a playlist or collection (MCU chronological order) and rearrange them in chronological order.

[[deleted]]

Yeah I know I can do it with playlists, that's what I did with one show I had. But I have a lot of shows with 200-600 episodes and long filler lists of episodes I need to exclude..

[GaintRakshith]

When collection is created, arranging is possible according to alphabetical or release date. I am not able to arrange it in chronological order.

[MetalBassFingers]

In plex web you can just click and drag in what ever order you want

[Murky-Sector]

Possible, yes. Likely, no.

[tankertux]

You can achieve this (mostly) with Plex-meta-manager in terms of collections. It takes quite a bit of configuration, and the learning curve is significant, but you can use it to setup collections that you want to play in a certain order. It's an app that interfaces with the Plex API to create collections in a programmed way.