Small bash script that updates your Plex Media Server (Linux) automatically - with a nice output for when running manually!

plex_updater.sh

#!/bin/bash

tput setaf 1 && tput bold
echo "Stopping the Plex server"
sudo service plexmediaserver stop

tput sgr0 && tput setaf 4
echo "Moving to /tmp/ ..."
cd /tmp/

echo "Downloading latest version of Plex server..."
curl -s "https://plex.tv/downloads/details/1?build=linux-ubuntu-x86_64&channel=16&distro=ubuntu" | grep -Po '(?<=url=\")(\S+)(?=\")' | xargs wget > /dev/null 2>&1

file_name=$(curl -s "https://plex.tv/downloads/details/1?build=linux-ubuntu-x86_64&channel=16&distro=ubuntu" | grep -Po '(?<=fileName=\")(\S+)(?=\")')

tput setaf 6
echo -ne "\nInstalling new image: "
tput sgr0 && tput bold
echo -e "$file_name\n"
tput sgr0 && tput setaf 6
sudo dpkg -i $file_name

tput setaf 1 && tput bold
echo -e "\nRestarting Plex server..."
sudo service plexmediaserver start
tput op

tput setaf 5
echo -n "Checking new server is running..."
systemctl is-active --quiet plexmediaserver && tput setaf 2 && tput bold && echo -e " Running!\n"