How to acquire permanent plex.tv apikey via cli (not apikey of a plex server)

SwiftPanda16 · June 17, 2021, 4:54pm

python-plexapi has built-in helper functions to do all of the steps in the Authenticating with Plex post for you automatically: plexapi.utils.getMyPlexAccount and plexapi.utils.createMyPlexDevice.

This is how you would use it.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/JonnyWong16/618af80ccc5d4d81433cebc2d5886fd2

get_plex_token.py

import uuid
from plexapi.utils import getMyPlexAccount, createMyPlexDevice

account = getMyPlexAccount()
product = input("App name: ")
headers = {
    'X-Plex-Platform': '',
    'X-Plex-Platform-Version': '',
    'X-Plex-Provides': '',
    'X-Plex-Version': '',

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How to acquire permanent plex.tv apikey via cli (not apikey of a plex server)

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