I am trying to get a list of all photos (actually their aspect ratio) in my Photo library- using Python and the API. I can get the info I need, in a browser, by using: localhost:32400/library/sections/2/year/2015 and the resulting xml shows various tags, including aspectRatio.
But how can I duplicate this using the API? I don’t think year is an attribute of the Photo section as
photos = plex.library.section(‘Photos’).year fails.
Or can I just use urllib.request and do a request/read?
Check the source code for ExportTools.
See my signature for a link
And did take a quick look, and it’s a multi step operation:
/library/sections/**SectionNumber**/all
Look up the key, and use that for the next, in a loop, getting items in chunks of 20
/library/metadata/20703/children?year>=2014&X-Plex-Container-Start=0&X-Plex-Container-Size=20
In above, the following is vital:
/library/metadata/20703 is the key from the first req.
X-Plex-Container-Start=0&X-Plex-Container-Size=20 is where you loop in multiple requests, until the answer is empty
/T
And when said…ExportTools can already do this for you 
github.com/ukdtom/ExportTools.bundle/wiki/Photo-Export-Level
Plexapi only supports the most basic operation when it comes to images. You have to do the filtering yourself ATM
