# Interacting with a plex client remotely **URL:** \ **Category:** Dev/API Corner\ **Tags:** plugin-dev\ **Created:** [May 20, 2012, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/interacting-with-a-plex-client-remotely/17706 "2012-05-20T11:19:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mutant\_Fruit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Mutant\_Fruit](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Mutant_Fruit)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/interacting-with-a-plex-client-remotely/17706/1 "2012-05-20T11:19:33Z")
Are there any examples of how to interact with a plex client remotely? I was hoping to scrape Now Playing information, but if someone could direct me towards any example where someone accesses a running client instance for any task, that’d be fantastic. I’ve been browsing the API documentation but examples seem near non-existent and nothing seems to indicate that what I want to do is possible. Do I have to write a plugin to expose all the info I want over a socket, or web service, in order to access it remotely? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![jam](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/jam/32/186050_2.png) [@jam](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jam)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/interacting-with-a-plex-client-remotely/17706/2 "2012-05-20T13:44:21Z")
This isn’t available, sorry - Plex clients report limited information about what they’re playing to the server, but this isn’t currently accessible via an API. It’s something we intend to improve in future. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/interacting-with-a-plex-client-remotely/17706/3 "2019-12-20T21:55:56Z")
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