# Android universal linking/watch.plex.tv links

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/android-universal-linking-watch-plex-tv-links/932340>\
**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** plex-web\
**Created:** [October 10, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/android-universal-linking-watch-plex-tv-links/932340 "2025-10-10T21:48:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![rasmu485](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e99b99/32.png) [@rasmu485](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rasmu485)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/android-universal-linking-watch-plex-tv-links/932340/1 "2025-10-10T21:48:43Z")

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Hey!

I’m trying to get linking to specific movies/shows working for the Android TV app. I’ve figured out that there are intent filters set-up to accept some watch.plex.tv links (for example [https://watch.plex.tv/movie/zoolander](https://watch.plex.tv/movie/zoolander)).

Is there any way to use IMDb or TMDB IDs to do the same? Or an API endpoint to convert one of those IDs to that slug?  
Basically looking for any way be able to reliably open links.

Saw that there are link.plex.tv and links.plex.tv configured for linking aswell but haven’t figured out how these work.

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![marekszulik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/marekszulik/32/342315_2.png) [@marekszulik](https://forums.plex.tv/u/marekszulik)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/android-universal-linking-watch-plex-tv-links/932340/2 "2025-10-25T19:45:41Z")

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Hi,

The Android app does accept watch.plex.tv links as you’ve discovered, but you’d need to map the IDs to our slug.

There is an endpoint that can help you: `https://metadata.provider.plex.tv/library/metadata/matches`. It requires you to pass in a `guid` query parameter as either `imdb://IMDB_ID` or `tmdb://TMDB_ID` and a `type` parameter where `1` is movie and `2` is show. You also need to provide your token in a `x-plex-token` parameter/header.

After you get the data, the slug should be in `MediaContainer.Metadata[0].slug`. To convert that into a link you prepend either `https://watch.plex.tv/movie/` or ` https://watch.plex.tv/show/` .

You can ignore the other types of links (link.plex.tv and links.plex.tv) for your purposes.

Hope that helps!