API: Users & Play History

[alsotacit]

Hi, I have a couple of questions about users & play history:

1. When getting a list of users there seem to be two endpoints I can use:

• https://plex.tv/api/home/users
• https://plex.tv/api/users

What is the intent of having two different endpoints and what is the significance of “home” in this context? I notice that the former returns all users whereas the latter returns all users apart from the home admin.

2. When getting play history from /status/sessions/history/all I see that in the response, most users have an accountID that matches the id given in the /api/home/users response in (1) above. However, this is not true for home admin user who gets an ID of “1” rather than the ID given in the /api/home/users response. Is there something I am misunderstanding here? What is the reason for the difference in home admin IDs?

Thanks for any help!

[dane22]

@alsotacit

What is the intent of having two different endpoints and what is the significance of “home” in this context?

https://plex.tv/api/home/users will return users, that is in your home only

https://plex.tv/api/users will return all your friends, incl. those in your home

@alsotacit

What is the reason for the difference in home admin IDs?

That I can’t tell, and might be due to historical reasons, but do agree that returning the real ID of the owner would have made more sense.