# Scan-routines

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/scan-routines/44306>\
**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** scanner-agent-dev\
**Created:** [October 9, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/scan-routines/44306 "2013-10-09T17:21:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![geekz85](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/geekz85/32/1966_2.png) [@geekz85](https://forums.plex.tv/u/geekz85)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/scan-routines/44306/1 "2013-10-09T17:21:25Z")

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I think the scan-function works very well so far but what we really need is more customizable scan-routines (at the moment you can only set 1 scan-time for all categories at once).  
  
If you have a very big collection of content in one category it takes a lot of time and cpu to scan, so you can set a time during the night or once a week if the content doesn’t change that much.  
  
If you have another category with less content but which often changes you can set a routine like scan every 30 minutes.

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**Author:** ![Murderous\_Moppet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@Murderous\_Moppet](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Murderous_Moppet)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/scan-routines/44306/2 "2013-10-21T16:25:19Z")

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There is an API for scanning if you are interested in making a simple scheduled script.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/scan-routines/44306/3 "2019-12-21T00:14:12Z")

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