Delete watched videos from myPlex queue

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I had a lot of old watched videos in myPlex queue that needed to be deleted, so I wrote this script to automate the process.  There is also a script available which will delete all the UN-watched videos from your queue.

 

https://github.com/caveatsCode/Plex_Queue_Delete_Watched

 

Plex_Queue_Delete_Watched
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Simple script to delete all watched videos from your myPlex queue
 
Requirements:  
Python (I use version 2.7, but other versions may work)  
lxml (http://lxml.de/)  
 
Usage:  
python Plex_Queue_Delete_Watched.py  
You will be prompted to enter your myPlex username and password  
ALL watched videos will be deleted from your myPlex queue!

 

OR

 

Usage:  
python Plex_Queue_Delete_Unwatched.py  
You will be prompted to enter your myPlex username and password  
ALL UN-watched videos will be deleted from your myPlex queue!
2

Does seem to work for me :(

This is the error shown:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Plex_Queue_Delete_Watched.py", line 17, in 
    auth_token = get_auth_token(page)
  File "Plex_Queue_Delete_Watched.py", line 6, in get_auth_token
    tree = etree.HTML(page.text)
AttributeError: 'Response' object has no attribute 'text'

 

I'm very interested in this script, and also a script whch would clear the entire queue.

3

You may be using an outdated version of Requests (based on someone who had a similar problem on StackOverflow).

If you are on Python 2.7, try:

pip-2.7 install requests --upgrade

If you aren't able to upgrade requests, it may be sufficient to replace 'page.text' with 'page.content' anywhere it appears in the script.

There is now a 2nd script uploaded to github to delete UN-watched videos from the queue.

4

I've tried using your suggestion, and then followed up with some debugging.

It seems the login step/post doesn't work for me, and the queue request gets redirected to https://my.plexapp.com/users/sign_in every time.

5

The scripts have been completely rewritten and are available on github.  The recent massive changes to Plex webpages broke the screen-scraping of the original script.  The rewritten version utilizes the plex API, so it should be more robust.