I would like Plex to grab the tags on movies and tv series as part of the meta data.
For example, in IMDB, there are tags like Christmas Movies, MCU etc. The Movie Database has a very smilar feature (Keywords).
I would really like to be able to grab these tags automatically (either with a plug in, an add on, a free feature or a paid feature) so that I could build playlists dynamicly such as all movies tagged with ‘superhero’.
I don’t think this is something I can do currently, but I’d love to be wrong.
I don’t think you can “automatically” pull down IMDB tags to add to movies. If you manage to get these tags entered into Plex, then the ideal way to now group up movies based on THESE tags would be to use Smart Collections, linked by JaysPlex7.
Interesting thought though. I suppose with good enough scripting knowledge, you could scan your database (making SQL calls) to get your movies list, retrieve IMDB tags for them, then insert them back into the database using SQL calls. That seems possible to me, but the actual MEAT of doing this is way over my head.
Plex will create collections automatically based on information from The Movie Database. Assuming you’re using the Plex Movie agent for your library, ensure that “Minimum automatic collection size” isn’t disabled (set it to a value 1 to 4). This is an advanced library setting, you’ll need to edit your library to configure it. If you have that number of movies or greater in your library, and there is a collection for them on TMDB, Plex will automatically build a collection for you. I believe a full library metadata refresh may be required to cause the collections to be created after changing the above setting.
Smart collections are based on the info that is pulled down. Things like Genre, year, bitrate etc all work great for that. But topic tags aren’t currently pulled in from TMDB or other sources.
Movies are tagged in TMDB with (in most cases) many tags. Captain Marvel for example has 12 tags including things like superhero, based on comic, marven cinematic universe, woman director, alien technology and more.
These tags are not pulled in, but as you can imagine, it would be a great to be able to build smart collections from that data.
Hi Divideby0, yes that’s what I was thinking, but I don’t know how to do that either unfortunately. I’ll have a think, but I’m not sure how I could do it yet
There is not a current way to do that I am aware of unless some third party tool does. We only get collection info from TMDB such as Iron Man Collection — The Movie Database (TMDB) I could be wrong but I afaik it is not a tag, A collection is made and items are added to it. rather than the collection added to the item if that makes sense… and they have rules about the collections that are allowed. which are generally just sequels such as Iron Man 1,2 3 but not the entire MCU. Overview - Collection Bible — The Movie Database (TMDB)
If the movies are using the m4v/mp4 container format, you can embed at least one collection name into the Album meta tag.
Plex will read it and add the video to a dumb collection of that name.
