# Media Item GUIDs?

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/media-item-guids/7162>\
**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** other-dev\
**Created:** [January 2, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/media-item-guids/7162 "2011-01-02T12:17:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dachande663](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/dachande663/32/403_2.png) [@Dachande663](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dachande663)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/media-item-guids/7162/1 "2011-01-02T12:17:00Z")

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I’m looking at updating some of my other Plex projects (namely the Web Export with sharing support) and was wondering if there is any form of Globally Unique ID for content within Plex? I know each piece has a key (most likely an auto-inc from the DB), but of course this is only unique to that Plex Server. Ideally access to the relevant IMDB keys or similar would be best but I can’t see any way to extract that data i.e. have a tvdbid=“123” attribute on a TV show.  
  
  
  
At the moment the closest I can think to do is try a fuzzy match on the item name (and maybe other attributes such as year).

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**Author:** ![hrcolb0](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/hrcolb0/32/380_2.png) [@hrcolb0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hrcolb0)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 12:24pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/media-item-guids/7162/2 "2011-01-02T12:24:36Z")

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Edit:  
  
  
  
In the scanners it used to be media.guid, but I can’t find that on the http server just yet.

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**Author:** ![hrcolb0](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/hrcolb0/32/380_2.png) [@hrcolb0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hrcolb0)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/media-item-guids/7162/3 "2011-01-02T12:39:07Z")

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go to metadata/[ratingKey]/tree. guid is there

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**Author:** ![Dachande663](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/dachande663/32/403_2.png) [@Dachande663](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dachande663)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/media-item-guids/7162/4 "2011-01-02T19:49:32Z")

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Excellent thank you!

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**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, 8:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/media-item-guids/7162/5 "2019-12-20T20:56:16Z")

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