Add shows to playqueue by URL

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Hello,

My wife’s biggest complaint about using Plex and bingewatching shows is that she misses how TV used to be one random show after another. The problem I’m trying to solve is that I want to make it easy for her to create a playlist of randomly selected episodes based on a list of shows she selects. I’ve been searching all over, and couldn’t find anywhere indicating if there was a way using URL’s to create a playlist, assuming you have the episode’s specific ID that you’d like to add.

Alternatively, if there’s a different, better method, I’m all ears to that too.

Thanks in advance,
Kyle

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You can create random playlists with a bit of python scripting and the python-plexapi wrapper.

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@JonnyWong16 said:
You can create random playlists with a bit of python scripting and the python-plexapi wrapper.

Thanks for the info. I skimmed over python-plexapi, but apparently didn’t see that. I’m looking to integrate this into a Node application, so I’ll play around with how it crafts the paths to the server, and see if I can’t replicate that in Node.