Hello All Plex Users,
I have wanted the ability for some time now to be able to export out a list of the movies I have on my Plex Media Server to either an xlsx or pdf file in order to share with those very few family members that have access to the content on my server. I know that that there is a third party plugin called ExportTools that does a great job of this but unfortunately there is very little control and work involved when attempting to export a very simple list that shows the movie poster, name and synopsis in order to share. I am not looking/asking for anything elaborate but my parents are almost in the 90’s and would love for them to have the ability to have a print out of movies that they know would be available to them to watch on my system through their Apple TV that I have installed for them. This is something that I am requesting to have as a hard copy to check as many people, as myself, do not think ahead of time to go to an application on whatever device and spend the time to scroll through (in my instance) 654 movies in order to see what may be available. It would be nice to have a hardcopy of the list of movies available on the coffee table to share with individuals that come over that would like to see a movie on the system so that they may be able to see ahead of time in order to choose without going through and discussing each and every one of them for some time before something is eventually chosen. Plex has the ability to show a list view of every movie with the title, poster and synopsis and, for my requirements, that is all I would like to have. There may be others that may have more details of what they would like to see but if I just was sitting down and quickly wanted to go through a bunch of movies to choose from, I would like to have a short and concise list to choose from (but that’s just me).
In order to those few individuals to know when the server is up for them to watch, I have also shared with them a free web page by a service called “Uptime Robot” which allows them to know the status of my server being up or down as the computer I am using is an old heavily modified early 2008 MacPro which can be its own space heater if it wanted to be and have chosen to not have it on 24 hours a day. It would be amazing if there was a way that Plex would allow its users to export out a pdf of all the movies that were available on their system with the above requirements with very little work. I have provided a screen shot of what Plex currently provides when listing all of its movies in list view and am requesting the option for users to export a .pdf list with movie posters, title and synopsis included for every movie that is available in a users library. Please submit your vote either way and maybe this is something that the Plex team may be able to provide in a future release if all of you thought that it would be relevant to you as well:
