Going to try and be constructive here … Lets take Alien: Earth and S01E02. Within plex the summary metadata is as follows: [Screenshot from 2025-10-13 08-44-14] This is taken directly from the Storyline review on IMDB … [Screenshot from 2025-10-13 08-47-49] … and is a line by line summary of…

In case anyone thinks this is a isolated case here is another example with Daredevil: Born Again S01E03: Plex - full spoiler comment with a episode breakdown: [Screenshot from 2025-10-23 18-57-57] IMDB: [Screenshot from 2025-10-23 18-59-11] TMDB: [Screenshot from 2025-10-23 18-59-56] TVDB: …

Thanks - I’m curious, what would you see the solution being ? My understanding is that plex ranks / rates metadata based on a number of criteria and then that becomes what plex uses as it default. So, that would be all coded without any human intervention. How would situations like this be fixed i…

[Screenshot_8-1-2026_15434_127.0.0.1] I’m noticing it on everything now!

I don’t know where that’s from, not IMDB, but it is about the standard I’m seeing throughout my library. Just AI drivel.

[image] our_conf: I don’t know where that’s from, not IMDB 100% from imdb → Constantine (TV Series 2014–2015) - IMDb [Screenshot From 2026-01-08 10-32-00]

Oh, wow. I was looking at this bit, which wasn’t too bad… [Screenshot_20260109_012956_Chrome]

Right, its not even the default imdb summary plex scraps, they pull a rubbish spoiler filled review from some random.

Or marketing text… that dang “Storyline” field from IMDB on Sinners has this which is used for the summary in Plex: From Ryan Coogler - director of "Black Panther" and "Creed" - and starring Michael B. Jordan, comes a new vision of fear: "Sinners." Which because of the line limitations for summary …

Stop scrapping IMDB Storyline Summaries for Plex Metadata

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files

Atomatth January 7, 2026, 9:44pm 4

Forgot to mention when it was filed, we do have an internal issue for this.

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Stop scrapping IMDB Storyline Summaries for Plex Metadata

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