Plex Show Episode Count API

[KJThaDon]

I am trying to come up with a simple way to grab my total episode count from plex.

Here is what I have for total show count, but I need episodes. What needs to be changed? Or is there another way, preferably with PHP.

Thanks

$show_url = 'https://www.******.com/library/sections/3/all?X-Plex-Token=xxxxxxx';
$show_xml = simplexml_load_file($show_url);
$show_count = count($show_xml);
echo $show_count;

[dane22]

Web client

Select your show library, and notice second top item says TV Shows
Change that to episodes

[KJThaDon]

Yes, but how do you pull that externally?

[dane22]

@KJThaDon

externally

So you want not the number, but be able to do it from Code

Issue a GET like: <PMS_IP>:32400/library/sections/<SECTIONKEY>/all?type=4&X-Plex-Container-Start=0&X-Plex-Container-Size=0&X-Plex-Token=XXXXX

You’ll get an XML returned, with an element named totalSize which will be the amount of episodes

[dane22]

And adding to self

In above url, set type=2 to get the count of shows

And here’s some types:

• Movie : 1
• Show : 2
• Season : 3
• Episode : 4
• Trailer : 5
• Comic : 6
• Person : 7
• Artist : 8
• Album : 9
• Track : 10
• Clip : 12
• Photo : 13
• Photo_Album : 14
• Playlist: 15
• Playlist_Folder : 16
• Podcast : 17

[KJThaDon]

Thank you, sir!