How to get a transient token from the server

Tijder · February 15, 2016, 9:31pm

HI, I’m trying to make a remote controller for in my local network. I want everybody to login in their own account. On my account where the server is linked to it is working. Only with guest user (shared lib users) It doesn’t work. I think it is because I need to get a transient token.
How can I get transient token from the server?

luxprimus · May 5, 2016, 8:18pm

I’m trying to build an app right now and have just hit this wall as well. I can’t seem to pull any library sections from a guest account. Have you had any luck solving the problem?

SwiftPanda16 · May 5, 2016, 10:13pm

I just figured this out for PlexPy last week.

Grab the guest’s Plex access token from POST https://plex.tv/users/sign_in.xml. (I assume you already have this part).
Use the Plex access token from step 1 to GET https://plex.tv/pms/servers.xml?X-Plex-Token=<guest_token>
The guest’s server access token will be in the <Server> XML tag.
Use the server access token from step 3 to access the libraries (/library/sections etc.)

Note: The owner of the PMS will have the same Plex access token, and server access token.

luxprimus · May 6, 2016, 2:28am

Thank you so much. I’ve spent hours trying to figure this out. I was just missing those final two steps.

vincen · June 2, 2016, 12:47pm

@JonnyWong16 said:
I just figured this out for PlexPy last week.

Grab the guest’s Plex access token from POST https://plex.tv/users/sign_in.xml. (I assume you already have this part).

Would you mind to share the whole http header you used to retrieve that token ? as I have only failure for it (hide login/pass from it !

SwiftPanda16 · June 2, 2016, 1:43pm

@vincen said:

@JonnyWong16 said:
I just figured this out for PlexPy last week.

Grab the guest’s Plex access token from POST https://plex.tv/users/sign_in.xml. (I assume you already have this part).

Would you mind to share the whole http header you used to retrieve that token ? as I have only failure for it (hide login/pass from it !

Just take a look at PlexPy.

github.com

Tautulli/Tautulli/blob/master/plexpy/plextv.py#L159


      
          self.password = password
          self.token = token
          
          self.urls = 'https://plex.tv'
          self.timeout = plexpy.CONFIG.PMS_TIMEOUT
          self.ssl_verify = plexpy.CONFIG.VERIFY_SSL_CERT
          
          if self.username is None and self.password is None:
              if not self.token:
                  # Check if we should use the admin token, or the guest server token
                  if session.get_session_user_id():
                      user_data = users.Users()
                      user_tokens = user_data.get_tokens(user_id=session.get_session_user_id())
                      self.token = user_tokens['server_token']
                  else:
                      self.token = plexpy.CONFIG.PMS_TOKEN
          
              if not self.token:
                  logger.error("Tautulli PlexTV :: PlexTV called, but no token provided.")
          
          self.request_handler = http_handler.HTTPHandler(urls=self.urls,

vincen · June 2, 2016, 1:47pm

@JonnyWong16 said:

@vincen said:

@JonnyWong16 said:
I just figured this out for PlexPy last week.

Grab the guest’s Plex access token from POST https://plex.tv/users/sign_in.xml. (I assume you already have this part).

Would you mind to share the whole http header you used to retrieve that token ? as I have only failure for it (hide login/pass from it !

Just take a look at PlexPy.
Tautulli/plexpy/plextv.py at master · Tautulli/Tautulli · GitHub

Thanks for link but unhappy I’m not really familiar with Python so not easy to guess what exact whole syntax you used to do the request on plex.tv server
A copy/paste of the whole string sent by your module ? (hide the base64encoded part)

SwiftPanda16 · June 2, 2016, 1:54pm

@vincen said:

@JonnyWong16 said:

@vincen said:

@JonnyWong16 said:
I just figured this out for PlexPy last week.

Grab the guest’s Plex access token from POST https://plex.tv/users/sign_in.xml. (I assume you already have this part).

Would you mind to share the whole http header you used to retrieve that token ? as I have only failure for it (hide login/pass from it !

Just take a look at PlexPy.
Tautulli/plexpy/plextv.py at master · Tautulli/Tautulli · GitHub

Thanks for link but unhappy I’m not really familiar with Python so not easy to guess what exact whole syntax you used to do the request on plex.tv server
A copy/paste of the whole string sent by your module ? (hide the base64encoded part)

The headers are listed 3 lines below the line that I linked to.

vincen · June 2, 2016, 2:03pm

@JonnyWong16 said:
The headers are listed 3 lines below the line that I linked to.

So it should be formatted this way right ?

GET /users/sign_in.xml HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8,X-Plex-Device-Name: PlexPy,X-Plex-Product: PlexPy,X-Plex-Version: plexpy.common.1,X-Plex-Platform: plexpy.common.Linux,X-Plex-Platform-Version: plexpy.common.2,X-Plex-Client-Identifier: plexpy.iec,Authorization: Basic xxxxxxxx=

xxxxx being my login:password of my plex account in Base64 right ?

I get that as answer

HTTP/1.1 400 BAD_REQUEST Content-Length: 0 Connection: Close

SwiftPanda16 · June 2, 2016, 2:07pm

@vincen said:

@JonnyWong16 said:
The headers are listed 3 lines below the line that I linked to.

So it should be formatted this way right ?

GET /users/sign_in.xml HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8,X-Plex-Device-Name: PlexPy,X-Plex-Product: PlexPy,X-Plex-Version: plexpy.common.1,X-Plex-Platform: plexpy.common.Linux,X-Plex-Platform-Version: plexpy.common.2,X-Plex-Client-Identifier: plexpy.iec,Authorization: Basic xxxxxxxx=

xxxxx being my login:password of my plex account in Base64 right ?

I get that as answer

HTTP/1.1 400 BAD_REQUEST Content-Length: 0 Connection: Close

You need to substitute all the

plexpy.common.xxxxx
plexpy.CONFIG.xxxxx

with your own values from your application. And it’s a POST request for signing in.

github.com

Tautulli/Tautulli/blob/master/plexpy/plextv.py#L174


      
                          self.token = plexpy.CONFIG.PMS_TOKEN
          
                  if not self.token:
                      logger.error("Tautulli PlexTV :: PlexTV called, but no token provided.")
          
              self.request_handler = http_handler.HTTPHandler(urls=self.urls,
                                                              token=self.token,
                                                              timeout=self.timeout,
                                                              ssl_verify=self.ssl_verify,
                                                              headers=headers)
          
          def get_server_token(self):
              servers = self.get_plextv_resources(output_format='xml')
              server_token = ''
          
              try:
                  xml_head = servers.getElementsByTagName('Device')
              except Exception as e:
                  logger.warn("Tautulli PlexTV :: Unable to parse XML for get_server_token: %s." % e)
                  return None

vincen · June 2, 2016, 2:17pm

@JonnyWong16 said:
You need to substitute all the
plexpy.common.xxxxx
plexpy.CONFIG.xxxxx
with your own values from your application. And it’s a POST request for signing in.
Tautulli/plexpy/plextv.py at master · Tautulli/Tautulli · GitHub

Replaced GET by POST but still same error I’m aware I need to update all the plexpy string by my own but I guess it’s not a problem for the tests of my syntax right ?

SwiftPanda16 · June 2, 2016, 3:17pm

@vincen said:
@JonnyWong16 said:
You need to substitute all the
plexpy.common.xxxxx
plexpy.CONFIG.xxxxx
with your own values from your application. And it’s a POST request for signing in.
Tautulli/plexpy/plextv.py at master · Tautulli/Tautulli · GitHub
Replaced GET by POST but still same error I’m aware I need to update all the plexpy string by my own but I guess it’s not a problem for the tests of my syntax right ?

Works perfectly fine

vincen · June 2, 2016, 3:22pm

@JonnyWong16 said:

@vincen said:

@JonnyWong16 said:
Works perfectly fine

What is that tool you used ?

SwiftPanda16 · June 2, 2016, 3:23pm

@vincen said:

@JonnyWong16 said:

@vincen said:

@JonnyWong16 said:
Works perfectly fine

What is that tool you used ?

Postman

vincen · June 2, 2016, 3:36pm

@JonnyWong16 said:

@vincen said:

@JonnyWong16 said:

@vincen said:

@JonnyWong16 said:
Works perfectly fine

What is that tool you used ?

Postman

Thanks got it and shame on me, I was doing POST through http and not https

Thanks again for all

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