# Where does plex get trailers

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**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** library-management\
**Created:** [March 10, 2021, 4:54am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/where-does-plex-get-trailers/698805 "2021-03-10T04:54:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![umamaheshwarreddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/779978/32.png) [@umamaheshwarreddy](https://forums.plex.tv/u/umamaheshwarreddy)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 4:54am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/where-does-plex-get-trailers/698805/1 "2021-03-10T04:54:59Z")

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Where does plex gets its trailers from?

I like to have trailers for all/most of my movies, however, plex is able to grab trailers for only some movies. IMDB already had a trailer for a particular movie I was looking for, so I tried to add a trailer in TMDB for that movie to see if plex will show me that trailer after “Refresh Metadata” after a couple of days, but it didn’t. So, what sources does plex use for trailers?

P.S: I know that I can download the trailer to my local library and make it appear in plex, but I want the online way.

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 7:09am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/where-does-plex-get-trailers/698805/2 "2021-03-10T07:09:44Z")

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Plex is using a repository that’s not freely available ([https://www.internetvideoarchive.com/](https://www.internetvideoarchive.com/)). If I remember correctly that’s mostly about the licensing… while people often tend to copy stuff without such considerations, there’s restrictions if you want to use such videos as a business (e.g. Plex)

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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:** [June 8, 2021, 7:10am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/where-does-plex-get-trailers/698805/3 "2021-06-08T07:10:11Z")

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