I want to make a web app that allows me to view and play my music library from my Plex server. I figured there would be a simple, well documented API and this would be a no brainer. The best thing I found was this:
…but it seems to just touch the surface. I can view my libraries, get they “key” of my music library, and use that to list the contents. I can then see artist metadata. But I want to then list all the albums for an artist, display album artwork, and then list all the tracks on those albums, and then actually play a song. I see no “url command” to allow this… Is this possible?
I agree. The community has been asking for it for 5 years now. If Plex wants the community to help it grow it should add documentation. Otherwise it will remain a closed shell, which doesn’t evolve fast enough for clients needs. We will start to look elsewhere.
I have been using Plex for several years now. Somewhen in between I stumbled upon this tutorial:
The steps outlined there look like just the introduction to the Plex API that I need now - now that I decided I want to write an iOS app that enables nice and smooth photo browsing with Plex.
So I started developing, got the authentication process to work and was going to proceed to the API docs to start fetching photos. But… d’oh. There is none. After that nice tutorial? What the…?! I found a forums thread asking for API docs that was met with utter silence a few years ago.
All in all starting to develop for Plex has been a big disappointment. Since (apparently) nothing moved within the last few years I am looking into the Emby API. However Emby has other drawbacks and in general I was a happy Plex customer.
Please. Give us something reliable to code against. Plex is a great product. I want to stay here.
