So I’m adding a new section to plex with web series I’ve loved and collected over the years from YouTube, Blip.TV, or ones that just existed on the websites itself before centralized distribution platforms. Problem is, the vast majority of these are definitely not on the TVDB.
What would be a good workflow for loading in a lot of custom web series that ran multiple seasons? Ideally episode names, description, custom art, etc.
TheTVDb is real picky about web series and such but you might want to check themoviedb. You never know, it might be there and you could use that agent when adding series.
I’m not looking to find metadata, i’m looking to manually enter everything. A lot of these have like 500 views on YouTube. So I was curious about the best way to manually enter everything.
The same way as if you add ‘serialized’ custom videos (e.g. courses) to Plex:
Use a library of the type ‘TV Shows’, but set its default agent to ‘Personal Media Shows’
Use the regular ‘tv show’ notation for file names and folder organization.
Use the mp4 file format, so you can add episode names and episode descriptions as embedded meta tags for Plex to read.
Add the series Poster, season posters and episode thumbnails (if you want) as ‘side-car’ jpg files.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220717-local-media-assets-tv-shows/
The only thing you need to add manually within Plex is the title and description of the “series” as a whole.
You can ‘stalk’ this user who asked recently several related questions about this
And maybe the rating and content rating if you feel generous. 
My lord, there are so many emoji’s. I wouldn’t be surprise if its over 9000!!
Anyone have any thoughts on possibly editing multiple episode names and descriptions programmatically? I’m thinking there must be a way to do it from a terminal script or python script. Edit some XML someplace. I need to add new episode titles and descriptions to nearly 200 episodes manually because the show is zero budget and doesn’t exist in any database.
If you can generate Kodi-compatible .nfo files, you could use the .nfo importer agents for this show instead.
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