Hello, Up until the latest release I was able to view all all my movies IMDB information via: <plex_server_url>/library/sections/1/all Now it seems I need to query the individual metadata for each movie. My Question(s): Is there a URL param I can add to supply this URL with additional metadata? …

@dane22 Just a reminder that includeGuids=1 was implemented for this exact reason. [image] [implemented] Add includeGuids URL parameter to return external Guids Feature Suggestions External metadata guids were implemented for the new Plex Movie and Plex TV Series agent in…

It changed with the new native agents, where the GUID is stored now, so you have to do an individual item lookup, like: /library/metadata/KEY If using old legacy agents, then it’s still possible, and when said, using an endpoint like: /library/sections/1/all does have an impact on PMS, so I recom…

I see, thank you for the update. Using the search API <plex_server>/search?query=Ghostbusters%20Afterlife === returns nothing. <plex_server>/search?query=Ghostbusters:%20Afterlife === returns the movie. Is there more of a fuzzy search API… Or a way of querying the IMDB of a movie directly?

There’s no way I know off to query for the IMDB ID directly You need to do something like: GET /library/sections/<KEY_OF_SECTION>/all?X-Plex-Container-Start=0&X-Plex-Container-Size=50 Above will return the first 50 entries Get the key value from each of them one by one, and issue a GET on that, …

Appreciate it, and understood, that was how I was doing it now. If I want to use one of the ‘old agents’ again. (image attached) I have rescanned my library (with this configured). [Screen Shot 2022-02-16 at 8.10.57 PM] Based on what you were saying, it should have the IMDB information listed on…

[image] guy165101: right? Correct, it’s in the guid field. But STRONGLY recommend not to, since there’s a reason they are named legacy! Also STRONGLY recommend using paging!

[image] SwiftPanda16: includeGuids=1 Stupid me, since I was among the people that wanted that :wink:

[image] SwiftPanda16: includeGuids=1 Amazing! exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much

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SwiftPanda16 February 17, 2022, 5:25pm 7

@dane22 Just a reminder that includeGuids=1 was implemented for this exact reason.

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Plex API support for IMDB

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