Callback for Media Items

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Howdy,



We’d like to track the total number of video/picture views from the Plex plug-in. From the documentation, it appears that it’s possible to assign a callback function for an individual PhotoItem or VideoItem but my attempt down this road has failed.



Anyone know how to accomplish this?



Thanks!

[sander1]

Hi! You can do some things before starting the video by using a Function with the (Web)VideoItem, like so:



For a WebVideoItem:

<br />
  # ...building a list with items here<br />
  dir.Append(Function(VideoItem(PlayVideo, title=title), url=url))<br />
<br />
####################################################################################################<br />
<br />
def PlayVideo(sender, url):<br />
  Log('Hey, were in PlayVideo!')<br />
  # Find the final video, and/or do some tracking/logging stuff here<br />
<br />
  return Redirect(url)<br />

For a VideoItem:

<br />
  # ...building a list with items here<br />
  dir.Append(Function(WebVideoItem(PlayVideo, title=title), url=url))<br />
<br />
####################################################################################################<br />
<br />
def PlayVideo(sender, url):<br />
  Log('Hey, were in PlayVideo!')<br />
  # Find the final video, and/or do some tracking/logging stuff here<br />
<br />
  return Redirect(WebVideoItem(url))<br />

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Works perfectly - Thank you!