I found the documentation regarding using the API to refresh the metadata for an entire library. Is it possible to add some parameters to the API call to refresh the metadata for a specific item, rather than an entire library? I tried adding guid=xxxxxxxxx based on the librarySectionUUID returned by my lookup, but that didn’t seem to work.
For anyone else who encounters this, I managed to figure it out. I’m writing a script to find and refresh metadata for individual TBA items, rather than entire libraries/shows/seasons.
I found the TBA items via:
curl -skL "http://[IP_ADDRESS]:32400/search?query=TBA&X-Plex-Token=[TOKEN]" | xq | jq -M -r ".MediaContainer.Video | .[] | select(.\"@title\" == \"TBA\").\"@key\""
And once I had the keys for those items, I refreshed them via:
curl -skL "http://[IP_ADDRESS]:32400[KEY]/refresh?X-Plex-Token=[TOKEN]" -X PUT
For example, one of the keys I returned was /library/metadata/167845, so I issued the command curl -skL "http://[IP_ADDRESS]:32400/library/metadata/167845/refresh?X-Plex-Token=[TOKEN]" -X PUT
Perhaps it’ll help someone else in the future.
