I’m a simple person with zero programming, setting up an Unraid server. I for the life of me cannot see any token. I followed the guide and cannot see my token.
It doesn’t help that the guide instead of showing a token shows “this isn’t your token” so maybe I’m seeing it but I cannot compare a typical formatting or string to even confirm.
The guide also assumes that on step 2 I know if I “ browse to a media item” that I will know to play the video or either click on it right click on it (in chrome no view xml option appears) or who the heck knows what to do
Please oh please why must I view xml source coding to get such a simple data string..??
Just little noob here hoping to find what almost every app has an api token but I’m feeling like I need to be able to decipher xml coding just to view a simple token.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/204059436-finding-an-authentication-token-x-plex-token/
I for the life of me cannot get the above directions to make sense. Granted I’m a noob but I’ve been able to kludge together setting up twenty plus docker containers on an Unraid server. So I have enough knowledge that this shouldn’t have me stumped. I’m wondering if these directions are outdated. Or why a simple button couldn’t be added to Plex or somewhere to display..?
No, they’re not outdated.
Navigate to, for example, a movie in your library (or an episode in a TV library).
Select the ... icon and then Get Info. Then select View XML at the bottom of the dialog which opens.
From there, click the address bar of your browser and scroll it all the way to the end. Your Plex token will be the last thing shown.
If you’re confused, this document shows more detail as to how to view the XML info for an item:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201998867-investigate-media-information-and-formats/
Go to one of your Libraries, say Movies, clilck on a movie, any movie. You should see three dots at the end of the line with Play on it. Click “get info”, You’ll get a popup with information about that media. At the bottom of that window, click the “View XML” button. Should pop up a new tab with a lot of xml stuff. Look at the Url bar of you browser., you’ll need to scroll all the way to the end. Look for X-Plex-Token. I’ve screen-shotted mine, but actually did not include the actual token
You are amazing thank you.
