[Christmas Wish List] - rename non-local movie trailers/extras via API

rossinior
Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:22:07 +0000
Dev/API Corner

Hey guys,

I am sure that a regular feature suggestion would not generate many Likes, but I have a long-standing problem which I want to solve for myself (and others, potentially). Maybe a dev or two could be so nice to check if it can be made possible.

My libraries’ language is set to German. Plex grabs trailers for movies and offers them to me with a standard trailer title. I can “overwrite” these with local trailer files and get individual trailer titles by choosing a file name according to the naming conventions.

This results in having nice looking trailer titles and not so nice looking trailer titles in my libraries.

What do I mean. All Plex trailers are called like “ trailer (German xyz)” or similar. This is not following the rule that the library language is German.

This is not looking nice in my movie detail page on Plex Web, for example.

But it is also a problem in my Plex pre-movie trailer roll which is enabled on my PMS.

The Plex player which is playing the trailer before the movie is played, is showing the title of the trailer while playing it. But this is some weird title that I usually don’t know (since in my library, the movie has a German title which is potentially completely different from the English title and absolutely different from any Chinese original title). Watching an interesting trailer should spur an interest in watching these movies but usually for Plex movie trailers, I simply cannot get the name of the movie that has an interesting trailer.

I am writing a script to standardize trailer titles, but at the moment, this is only working for local trailer files.

It is absurd that I would need to replace 1130 Plex trailer files with local files in order to be able to rename the trailer title via API.

Can somebody help me with this? And if it’s not possible at the moment, it would be nice to have that option since somewhere on my PMS, that info has to be saved. I can understand that it is an issue to fix that via UI. But I am not calling out for that.

What do you guys think? Possible? I know that there are always several thousands of user wishes. Maybe I have luck this time?

Thank you for considering this.

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