Need Help Getting A Plex Token For Access

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I need help getting a token to access my server.

I use Linux on everything, and I have Home Assistant running fine. It wants to set up Plex, but I need a token for it. Can someone tell me what I need to type into the terminal to return a token I can use. I just need one permanent token for this application to remotely access my server, but it is pretty confusing from all the stuff I’ve read.

It seems like this should be a button on the devices page of your account, but I digress.

Thanks!!

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https://support.plex.tv/articles/204059436-finding-an-authentication-token-x-plex-token/

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Right. Now how do I…

"Do a HTTP POST request to https://plex.tv/users/sign_in.json (or https://plex.tv/users/sign_in.xml ) with:

  • user[login] and user[password] form values in the body. For example: user%5Blogin%5D=plexusername&user%5Bpassword%5D=myplexpassword
  • HTTP header: X-Plex-Client-Identifier : a unique value for your client
  • HTTP header: X-Plex-Product : the name of your client
  • HTTP header: X-Plex-Version : the version of your client"

We need the english example, not the code instructions for developers. Any help would be great.

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You only need to read the first paragraph, because this is all you need to get a token.

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I’m not getting this…

If I’m in a terminal on Linux, what would I type?

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You can’t get it in a terminal, AFAIK.

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Actually, you can :wink:

#!/bin/sh

read -p 'plex.tv Username: ' uservar
echo ''
read -sp 'plex.tv Password: ' passvar

url="https://plex.tv/api/v2/users/signin?login=$uservar&password=$passvar&X-Plex-Client-Identifier=12345abcDEF"
response=$(curl -X POST -i -k -L -s $url)
# Grap the token
UserToken=$(printf %s "$response" | awk -F= '$1=="authToken"{print $2}' RS=' '| cut -d '"' -f 2)

echo "************************* Token *******************************************"
echo $UserToken
echo "***************************************************************************"
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