Plex Pass Update Script for Debian (Ubuntu)

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For anyone else who would like to automate updating their Debian (Ubuntu) servers to the latest Plex Pass version, here’s my automation script (works great with cron, uses curl, jq, and dpkg):

#!/bin/bash

set -e

USERNAME="username"
PASSWORD="password"
DISTRO="ubuntu"
BUILD="linux-ubuntu-x86_64"

CLIENT_ID="$USERNAME-plex-updater-v1"
PRODUCT="Plex Updater"
VERSION="v1"
SIGNIN_URL="https://plex.tv/users/sign_in.json"
RELEASES_URL="https://plex.tv/api/downloads/1.json?channel=plexpass"
DOWNLOAD_DIR="/tmp"

echo "Signing in to plex.tv..."

SIGNIN_RESPONSE=$(curl -s \
    -H "X-Plex-Client-Identifier: $CLIENT_ID" \
    -H "X-Plex-Product: $PRODUCT" \
    -H "X-Plex-Version: $VERSION" \
    -d "user%5Blogin%5D=$USERNAME" \
    -d "user%5Bpassword%5D=$PASSWORD" \
    $SIGNIN_URL)

TOKEN=$(jq -r ".user.authentication_token" <<< $SIGNIN_RESPONSE)

echo "Getting releases..."

RELEASES_RESPONSE=$(curl -s \
    -H "X-Plex-Client-Identifier: $CLIENT_ID" \
    -H "X-Plex-Product: $PRODUCT" \
    -H "X-Plex-Version: $VERSION" \
    -H "X-Plex-Token: $TOKEN" \
    $RELEASES_URL)

CURRENT_VERSION=$(jq -r ".computer.Linux.version" <<< $RELEASES_RESPONSE)
INSTALLED_VERSION=$(dpkg-query --showformat='${Version}' --show plexmediaserver)

echo "Current version: $CURRENT_VERSION"
echo "Installed version: $INSTALLED_VERSION"

if [ "$CURRENT_VERSION" == "$INSTALLED_VERSION" ]
then
    echo "Plex is up-to-date."
    exit 0
fi

echo "Updating Plex..."

PACKAGE_URL=$(jq -r ".computer.Linux.releases[] | select(.distro == \"$DISTRO\") | select(.build == \"$BUILD\").url" <<< $RELEASES_RESPONSE)
PACKAGE_NAME=$(basename $PACKAGE_URL)
PACKAGE_PATH="$DOWNLOAD_DIR/$PACKAGE_NAME"

curl \
    -H "X-Plex-Client-Identifier: $CLIENT_ID" \
    -H "X-Plex-Product: $PRODUCT" \
    -H "X-Plex-Version: $VERSION" \
    -H "X-Plex-Token: $TOKEN" \
    -o $PACKAGE_PATH $PACKAGE_URL

dpkg -i $PACKAGE_PATH 

echo "Plex successfully updated."

Maybe there’s a better version of this floating around somewhere else, however I figured it couldn’t hurt to post.

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Nice work, thanks!

FYI for anyone running plex in a minimal ubuntu system like mine, “jq” needs to be installed before the script will work.
It’s just:
apt-get install jq
The other requirements were already installed.