I'm confused how Plex Home uses tokens to authenticate users and I can't get authentication for all users to work.
Using the following Python script I am able to use the username and password of a Plex user to obtain a token.
import httplib, urllib, base64
username = "insertanyusernamehere"
password = "insertcorrespondingpasswdhere"
base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password)).replace('
', '')
txdata = ""
headers={‘Authorization’: “Basic %s” % base64string,
‘X-Plex-Client-Identifier’: “Test script”,
‘X-Plex-Product’: “Test script 356546545”,
‘X-Plex-Version’: “0.001”}
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(“plex.tv”)
conn.request(“POST”,"/users/sign_in.json",txdata,headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
print response.status, response.reason
data = response.read()
print str(data)
conn.close()
The script returns some user info, including a token. Next, I try to use the token to access the Plex API with the following script:
import httplib, urllib, base64
token = "INSERTTOKENHERE"txdata = “”
headers={‘X-Plex-Client-Identifier’: “Test script”,
‘X-Plex-Product’: “Test script 356546545”,
‘X-Plex-Version’: “0.001”,
‘X-Plex-Token’: token}conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(":32400")
conn.request(“GET”,"/library",txdata,headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
print response.status, response.reason
data = response.read()
print str(data)
conn.close()
When I enter the account credentials of the server's owner in the first script and insert the corresponding token into the second script, I get some info about the libraries on the Plex server, as expected. However, when I enter the credentials of any other Home user the first script returns a token successfully, but the second script returns a 401 Unauthorized error.
Can someone tell me what I've been doing wrong?
I followed the instructions in this thread and posted my question there too, but I received no help there.
