Develop a custom scanner for libraries

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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is it possible to do that? the current scanner doesn’t meet my requirement because it can’t properly arrange my videos. If it is doable, how exactly can I do that? Thanks.

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Hi, I asked similar questions earlier. This is the link: For organizing files, need some help!

I got some answer from you guys about how to arrange the folders, and I also tried to do that. However, it seems like if I want to arrange all the videos under each year. It is not possible unless I made very large effort to achieve that. So I am thinking of developing a new scanner for my situation.

I have done some research that the current scanners were written by pyhon and it is at
“/volume1/@appstore/Plex Media Server/Resources/Plug-ins-6c22540d5/Scanners.bundle/Contents/Resources/Movies”

so I want to know if I write a new scanner and put in this folder, I can use it right? Thanks.

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I think I will just develop a custom scanner since I personally think putting all videos under the same directory isn’t a really good organize method. btw, is it possible to submit an application for review on my scanner in the future, so it becomes an official scanner?

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I’m curious; what is it that you scanner will do that Plex’s doesn’t? …you weren’t clear in that other post which library type you were referring to (Movie, TV Show).

Whilst I name my Movie .mp4 files as per Plex’s requirement (using Filebot), I organise them by letter of the alphabet (for easier lookup) and it works fine:

/Media
  /Movies
    /a
      Ant-Man (2015).mp4
      Apollo 13 (1995).mp4
      Avatar (2009).mp4
      ...
    /b
      Batman Begins (2005).mp4
      Blood Diamond (2006).mp4
      The Bourne Identity (2002).mp4
      ...
    /c
      ...

Note: The Bourne Identity is under B (as I am ignoring definite and indefinite articles).

It’s best to follow Plex’s naming and organisation for TV shows (in any given library) though as Plex will not allow sub-directories for organisational purposes:

/Media
  /TV Shows
    /Show_name (year)
      /Season 01
        Show_name (year) - S01E01 - Episode_title.mp4
        Show_name (year) - S01E02 - Episode_title.mp4
        ...
      /Season 02
        Show_name (year) - S02E01 - Episode_title.mp4
        Show_name (year) - S02E02 - Episode_title.mp4
        ...
    /Show_name_2 (year)
    ...
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I want to do it like this. And I think making modified scanner can achieve it faster since I have about 50tb files…

Root
-2020-Jan

  • Collection 1
    • Extra
      -OVA1.mp4
    • EP1.mp4
    • EP2.mp4
    • EP3.mp4
  • Collection 2
  • Collection 3

-2019-Jan

  • Collection 4
  • Collection 5
  • Collection 6

My main point is I only want collections lie under a year(year + month even better) instead of all collections lie under “TV Shows” folder. And also by following the guideline above, I don’t think it will auto match the year of the collections as well. And I really want all collection dates to set automatically on scanning phase.

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