If you like I can try to help with the command line scanner or API syntax, either method should get you where you want to be.
Both require you to get your token first. Were you able to follow the
How to Get the Plex Token instructions? Don’t show us your token, though 
The steps I outlined in my reply a few days ago should help.
Let me know where you got stuck and maybe provide screen shots.
Just redact your token if you do post a SS.
Good luck!
Thanks but you misunderstood completely. The issue is simple: I have directory, I want to run a metadata refresh at directory level and process all the files in it. Plex does not offer that option. Nothing more to do here.
Not trying to set up Plex for anything. If you read my post, the “library” exists for another purpose and long before Plex came on the scene. I am not changing anything for Plex. What I asked isn’t offered. End of story.
Thanks but those things are more trouble than what I’m already doing. I am looking for a much quicker way than one a time, these were not that. But thank you again for all your testing and trying to find a solution.
Understood. Somewhere in all my posts I tried to mention how using the API method will refresh all changed folders at once, skipping over the 99% of things you didn’t add SRTs to and is very fast, and it only takes loading the URL once.
Take care,
nibs
I’ll try the API again, maybe I did something wrong… it ran very very slowly for me, just like the metadata refresh option for the entire library does.
Oh sorry to hear it ran so slow. It’s possible your PMS requires an extra parameter to limit the refresh to only changed items, while my PMS did not.
For example, try adding the &force=0 parameter to the browser URL like this to force limiting to only changed items (as usual insert the correct IP address and correct token).
http://192.168.1.20:32400/library/sections/1/refresh/?X-Plex-Token=1234567890ABCDEFGHIJ&force=0
If you want to avoid using the browser and instead use the command line equivalent, you would enter this:
curl -X POST "http://192.168.1.20:32400/library/sections/1/refresh/?X-Plex-Token=1234567890ABCDEFGHIJ&force=0"
g/l nibs
It’s OK. My whole point of asking here is we’re excited to watch something right away upon finding the .srt file. Realistically, even a “binge” for us is at most 4-6 hours 
So, doing a few by hand that we’re going to watch right away, and letting a scheduled overnight refresh get the rest, still seems to be the best fit for us.
There will be a day when the old computer gives up and one of these other options will work for us on more modern hardware. I’ve saved off everything presented here for that day 
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