# Plex events without webhooks: PlexAPI eventstream? python plex log parser?

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**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** server-linux, other-dev, plugin-dev\
**Created:** [August 9, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-events-without-webhooks-plexapi-eventstream-python-plex-log-parser/735152 "2021-08-09T22:55:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![phoop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@phoop](https://forums.plex.tv/u/phoop)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-events-without-webhooks-plexapi-eventstream-python-plex-log-parser/735152/1 "2021-08-09T22:55:41Z")

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I’m doing some preliminary pre-coding research and wanted to ask the forum if there are wheels that I don’t need to reinvent.

– Does the PlexAPI somehow provide access to pause/resume events?

– Is there a python library that is purpose-built to parse Plex logs – which do in fact contain pause/resume events – in real time? ([Here’s a stackoverflow discussion on real-time log parsing in general.](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11908919/python-parsing-log-file-to-extract-events-in-real-time))

(I’m aware of Plex webhooks.)