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Create a Plex Playlist with what was aired on this today's month-day, sort by oldest first, using PlexAPI
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| """ | |
| 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) |
@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.
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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: