Create a Plex Playlist with what was aired on this today's month-day, sort by oldest first, using PlexAPI

aired_today_playlist.py

"""
Create a Plex Playlist with what was aired on this today's month-day, sort by oldest first.
If Playlist from yesterday exists delete and create today's.
If today's Playlist exists exit.
"""

import operator, time
from plexapi.server import PlexServer
import requests

baseurl = 'http://localhost:32400'
token = 'xxxxxx'
plex = PlexServer(baseurl, token)

library_name = ['Movies', 'TV Shows'] # You library names

child_lst = []
aired_lst = []

today = time.gmtime(time.time())

TODAY_PLAY_TITLE = 'Aired Today {}-{}'.format(today.tm_mon, today.tm_mday)

# Remove old Aired Today Playlists
for playlist in plex.playlists():
    if playlist.title == TODAY_PLAY_TITLE.startswith('Aired Today') and not TODAY_PLAY_TITLE:
        r = requests.delete('{}/playlists/{}?X-Plex-Token={}'
                    .format(baseurl, TODAY_PLAY_TITLE, token))
        print('Removing old Aired Today Playlists ')
        print(r)
    elif playlist.title == TODAY_PLAY_TITLE:
        print('{} already exists. No need to make again.'.format(TODAY_PLAY_TITLE))
        exit(0)

# Get all movies or episodes from LIBRARY_NAME
for library in library_name:
    for child in plex.library.section(library).all():
        if child.type == 'movie':
            child_lst += [child]
        elif child.type == 'show':
            child_lst += child.episodes()
        else:
            pass

# Find what aired with today's month-day
for video in child_lst:
    try:
        if str(video.originallyAvailableAt.month) == str(today.tm_mon) \
                and str(video.originallyAvailableAt.day) == str(today.tm_mday):
            aired_lst += [[video] + [str(video.originallyAvailableAt)]]
    except Exception as e:
        pass
    # Sort by original air date, oldest first
    aired_lst = sorted(aired_lst, key=operator.itemgetter(1))

# Remove date used for sorting
play_lst = [x[0] for x in aired_lst]

# Create Playlist
plex.createPlaylist(TODAY_PLAY_TITLE, play_lst)

This is cool! How do i implement it?

@adamcarter1:

Be sure that you have python and pip installed, then you can run this:

# This installs the plex api so it can be used in the above script
pip install plexapi

# This downloads the above script. You can copy/paste the above code, or use wget to download the "raw" file from github
wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/blacktwin/397f07724abebd1223ba6ea644ea1669/raw/72b2e633f12473f5e9a9e95be3906a19d7843c86/aired_today_playlist.py

Then, you need to edit the aired_today_playlist.py

Edit the baseurl to point to your server. Mine looks like this:
baseurl = 'http://192.168.1.72:32400'

And since I only wanted to get a list of all TV shows that aired today, I modified the following line
library_name = ['TV Shows'] # You library names

You'll need to get a valid plex token. The easiest way to do this, is open up your plex server via https://app.plex.tv, start playing some video from your library and then open your browser's developer tools, and look in the "network" tab. In there, you'll see a bunch of requests being made to your server that look like this:

https://some-plex-url-goes-here:32400/:/timeline?ratingKey=4681&key=%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F4681&playbackTime=434808&playQueueItemID=XXXX&state=buffering&hasMDE=1&time=434000&duration=1213000&X-Plex-Product=Plex%20Web&X-Plex-Version=3.87.2&X-Plex-Client-Identifier=XXXX&X-Plex-Platform=Chrome&X-Plex-Platform-Version=72.0&X-Plex-Sync-Version=2&X-Plex-Device=OSX&X-Plex-Device-Name=Chrome&X-Plex-Device-Screen-Resolution=1536x782%2C1920x1080&X-Plex-Token=XXXXXXX&X-Plex-Language=en&X-Plex-Text-Format=plain&X-Plex-Session-Identifier=XXXXX

Find the plex token in there, by looking up the value for X-Plex-Token. Copy the value and add it into the python file.

token = 'XXXXXXX'

Now you're ready to run the script!

python aired_today_playlist.py

That's it!

Hello, trying to implement this, but running into an issue where it says there must be items when creating a playlist. I set a print statement for the lists to make sure they have content and this is what is returned:

[[, '1899-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1899-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1899-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1948-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1966-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1973-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1979-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1979-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1980-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1984-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1985-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1986-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1987-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1988-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1989-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1989-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1989-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1989-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1990-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1990-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1991-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1992-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1992-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1993-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1993-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1993-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1993-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1995-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1995-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1995-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1995-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1995-11-24 00:00:00'], [sode:12321:Mobile-Suit-Gundam-W-s01e33>, '1995-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1995-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1996-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1996-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1996-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1996-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1997-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1997-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1997-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1997-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1997-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1998-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1998-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1998-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1998-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1998-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1999-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1999-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1999-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1999-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1999-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1999-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '1999-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2000-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2000-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2000-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2000-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2000-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2001-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2001-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2001-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2002-11-24 00:00:00'], [old-By-Ginger-s02e20>, '2002-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2002-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2002-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2002-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2002-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2002-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2002-11al-s01e07>, '2022-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2022-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2022-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2022-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2022-11-24 00:00:00'], [, '2022-11-24 00:00:00']]
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/user.scripts/tmpScripts/android13AiredToday.py/script", line 65, in
plex.createPlaylist(TODAY_PLAY_TITLE, play_lst)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/plexapi/server.py", line 548, in createPlaylist
return Playlist.create(
File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/plexapi/playlist.py", line 439, in create
return cls._create(server, title, items)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/plexapi/playlist.py", line 345, in _create
raise BadRequest('Must include items to add when creating new playlist.')
plexapi.exceptions.BadRequest: Must include items to add when creating new playlist.

@leftovernick You may have better luck using this: https://github.com/cfurrow/plex-playlist-creators

I created a couple of Plex playlist creator scripts, and tested it out again today, and it worked fine.