For occasions when I am away form home and need to get hold of a video for editing, or presenting in an offline mode - how can I download a video, or access the cache for the Plex client?
I would like to write a client app for presentations that use the Plex Media Server to serve the files, or maybe a plugin? I note XBMC had the ability to return file content in the JSON API - is there something similar I can do using Plex?
The media server has a rich API, which you could use to access a file. If you’re doing that remotely, you’d need to authenticate into myPlex, get an auth token, then connect to your media server at home and download the file. Not rocket science, but there’s no documentation for the API currently, you’d need to watch the log and see what other clients do.
Ah - thanks for that. Is there any information about what sort of authentication and what sort of transport is used for the media server? Can I access the files using http / basic auth, or ftp etc?
You can log into myPlex with basic auth, and get a token back; you then use that token via HTTP to gain access to the media server remotely.
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