Plex-db-sync: Synchronizes the watched status between servers for all users without tokens

mervincm · April 28, 2019, 7:07pm

Thank you for the feedback. I gave up on this approach and did a full-scale copy.

OttoKerner · April 28, 2019, 7:41pm

An easy way to find the section ID is to look at the Plex XML info of a media item in that library.
It’s right in the first line librarySectionID="xx"

Xhaka · April 29, 2019, 6:05am

Well seeing as this whole thing seems pretty dead (in the same vain as Plex-trakt -scrobbler) is there actually any way to retrieve Plex-tokens for home users so I can set up https://github.com/jacobwgillespie/plex-sync
It works really well for myself and with a combination of this and webhooks, watch status syncing and trakt scrobbling is covered.
It would be really cool If I could get this set up for my family. But as much as I have looked there seems to be no way to get the required tokens for anyone but myself.

OttoKerner · April 29, 2019, 10:35am

@dane22 tipped me off

github.com

ukdtom/WebTools.bundle/blob/master/Contents/Code/plextvhelper.py#L99




    ''' Will return true, if PMS is authenticated towards plex.tv '''



    def auth2myPlex(self):

        return 'ok' == XML.ElementFromURL(misc.GetLoopBack()).get('myPlexSigninState')



    ''' Get list of users 

	This will return a json of users on the server, incl. their access token

	'''



    def getUserList(self):

        try:

            # Fetch resources from plex.tv

            self.myHeader['X-Plex-Token'] = token

            users = XML.ElementFromURL(self.userURL, headers=self.myHeader)

            sharedUsers = XML.ElementFromURL(

                self.sharedServersURL, headers=self.myHeader)

            usrList = {}

            for user in users:

                # Get servers for user

                servers = user.xpath('//Server')

OttoKerner · April 29, 2019, 10:43am

Another way would be to use the web browser developer console, I’m told.

Xhaka · April 29, 2019, 11:11am

Awesome thanks Otto and @dane22 . I will take a look at both options.

dane22 · April 29, 2019, 9:47pm

In general, access:

https://plex.tv/api/servers?X-Plex-Token=MY-PLEX-TOKEN to get a list of your servers

Note the machineIdentifier for each server

Then query servers one by one, using:
https://plex.tv/api/servers/MACHINEIDENTIFIER/shared_servers?X-Plex-Token=MY-PLEX-TOKEN to get access token

If a user hasn’t got a name, then it’s a home user, and to identify which one, use:
https://plex.tv/pms/users?X-Plex-Token=MY-PLEX-TOKEN to get a list of all your users

Xhaka · April 30, 2019, 1:32pm

Thanks Tommy.
Managed to get the tokens but sadly it was all to no avail after all.

dane22 · April 30, 2019, 1:57pm

Why so?

Xhaka · April 30, 2019, 2:26pm

It seems even with the tokens plex-sync refuses to work for anyone other than myself.
I wouldnt even have a clue deciphering the messages in nodeJS. Finally though it looks like that project died even earlier than all the other alternatives.

So Plex-trakt-scrobbler. Dead project but mostly still working.
Plex-Sync. Dead project but working for a single user.
Plex-db-sync. Seemingly dead also but regardless seems to require a Linux server so no idea if its working.

Never mind I live in hope that Plex or Tautulli pull something out of the bag with regards server syncing. I’m not too worried about the trakt side of things as webhhooks work great for that.

Hergonoway · May 2, 2019, 8:23pm

+1

what is plex team waiting for to use webhooks between Plex servers natively?

Hergonoway · May 2, 2019, 10:41pm

Currently, sync is only working for my account, but not all my users. didn’t tested Plex-db-sync yet.

If it may help lonewolf people, I’m using webhooks to perform updates toward trakt (with XanderStrike/goplaxt) and Plex-trakt-scrobbler in pull only mode every hour to sync back all my activities to my 2 servers. It should works for all platforms. Each time I had non-sync stuff or errors in Plex-trakt-scrobbler it was related to push actions.

edrock200 · September 20, 2019, 8:25pm

What makes you say that? The GitHub repo shows a commit 17 days ago (9/2019)

Xhaka · September 20, 2019, 8:35pm

Want to give me a clue or better yet a link as I mentioned three different apps?
Plex-trakt-scrobbler.
Plex-Sync
Plex-db-sync

SecurityPlus · October 16, 2019, 3:48pm

This still work? And can it work on Windows?

lusky3 · November 4, 2019, 6:53pm

You can run it in Docker.
https://hub.docker.com/search?q=plex-db-sync&type=image

plexquebec · November 4, 2019, 9:58pm

Does it work with Plex server on Windows ?

Heliman · December 5, 2019, 3:33pm

Can we get a little more detail on how to setup plex-db-sync once we have the docker installed? I have been scouring for some more details on how to get this up and going. Mainly just a breakdown of each step would be great. I have a QNAP NAS that I used Container Station to install the plex-db-sync docker. But I dont know where to go from there exactly.

fmstrat · January 11, 2020, 8:56pm

Hi all, yes plex-dv-sync still works and I maintain it. Yes it works with Windows. I don’t really follow this forum, but happy to answer stuff on GitHub.

I keep it running, but my end goal is to work on the ticket for Jellyfin porting the database out from Sqlite to MariaDB so that multiple server sync can be a native feature there. Big advantage of FOSS.

system · April 10, 2020, 8:56pm

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