Laravel Plex

A Laravel package that allows access to the API of your Plex server.

Installation

composer require havenstd06/laravel-plex

Publish Assets

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Havenstd06\LaravelPlex\Providers\PlexServiceProvider" 

Configuration

After publishing the assets, add the following to your .env files .

# Plex API
PLEX_SERVER_URL=
PLEX_TOKEN=

PLEX_CLIENT_IDENTIFIER=
PLEX_PRODUCT=havenstd06/laravel-plex
PLEX_VERSION=1.0.0

PLEX_VALIDATE_SSL=true

Configuration File

The configuration file plex.php is located in the config folder. Following are its contents when published:

return [
    'server_url'         => env('PLEX_SERVER_URL', ''), // Plex Server URL (ex: http://[IP address]:32400)
    'token'              => env('PLEX_TOKEN', ''),

    'client_identifier'  => env('PLEX_CLIENT_IDENTIFIER', ''), // (UUID, serial number, or other number unique per device)
    'product'            => env('PLEX_PRODUCT', 'havenstd06/laravel-plex'), // (Plex application name, eg Laika, Plex Media Server, Media Link)
    'version'            => env('PLEX_VERSION', '1.0.0'), // (Plex application version number)

    'validate_ssl'       => env('PLEX_VALIDATE_SSL', true), // Validate SSL when creating api client.
];

Usage

Initialization

use Havenstd06\LaravelPlex\Services\Plex as PlexClient;

$provider = new PlexClient;

Override Configuration

You can override Plex API configuration by calling setApiCredentials method:

$config = [
    'server_url'        => 'https://example.com',
    'token'             => 'your-token',
    
    'client_identifier' => 'your-client-identifier',
    'product'           => 'your-product',
    'version'           => 'your-version',
    
    'validate_ssl'      => true,
];

$provider->setApiCredentials($config);

Integrations

Accounts

Sign In to return Plex user data (included token).

$data = [
    'auth' => [
        'username/email', // Required
        'password', // Required
    ],
    'headers' => [
        // Headers: https://github.com/Arcanemagus/plex-api/wiki/Plex.tv#request-headers
        // X-Plex-Client-Identifier is already defined in default config file
    ]
];

// The second parameter allows you to choose if you want to
// authenticate with the token registered in the config
// (ONLY IF THE TOKEN EXISTS).
$plexUser = $provider->signIn($data, false);
$token = $plexUser['user']['authToken'];

Get server accounts details.

$provider->getAccounts();

Get account information

$provider->getPlexAccount();

Get Plex.TV account information.

$provider->getServerPlexAccount();

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Users

List all home users, including guests (Users & Sharing in UI)

$provider->getUsers();

Validate username or email

$provider->validateUser('username | email');

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Friends

Get shares friends list.

$provider->getFriends();

Invite a friend.
If you don't pass an array with the library ids ($librarySectionIds), all the libraries of the server will be taken. Settings are optional too.

use Havenstd06\LaravelPlex\Classes\FriendRestrictionsSettings;

$librarySectionIds = [
    652397653,
    765367227,
    887542234
];

$settings = new FriendRestrictionsSettings(
    allowChannels: '1',
    allowSubtitleAdmin: '1',
    allowSync: '0',
    allowTuners: '0',
    filterMovies: '',
    filterMusic: '',
    filterTelevision: '',
);

$provider->inviteFriend('me@hvs.cx', $librarySectionIds, $settings);

Cancel invitation.

$provider->cancelInvite('me@hvs.cx');

Get pending invitations list.

$provider->getPendingInvites();

Remove friend.

$provider->removeFriend(12345678); // Friend ID / InvitedID

Get friends details

$provider->getFriendDetail(12345678); // Friend ID / InvitedID

Update friend restrictions

use Havenstd06\LaravelPlex\Classes\FriendRestrictionsSettings;

$settings = new FriendRestrictionsSettings(
    allowChannels: '1',
    allowSubtitleAdmin: '1',
    allowSync: '0',
    allowTuners: '0',
    filterMovies: '',
    filterMusic: '',
    filterTelevision: '',
);

$provider->updateFriendRestrictions(12345678, $settings); // Friend ID / InvitedID

Update friend libraries

$librarySectionIds = [
    652397653,
    765367227,
    887542234
];

$provider->updateFriendLibraries(12345678, $librarySectionIds); // Friend ID / InvitedID

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Server

Get the local List of servers.

$provider->getServers();

Get servers detail (contain libraries ids)

$provider->getServerDetail($machineIdentifier); // optional argument

Get server identity details

$provider->getServerIdentity();

Gets a list of servers and their sections. Limited to servers that have remote access enabled. The second parameter is for include lite.

$provider->getPmsServers(true);

Get server capabilities details. Transcode bitrate info, server info.

$provider->getServerCapabilities();

Gets the server preferences.

$provider->getServerPreferences();

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System

General plex system information.

$provider->getSystem();

Agents available (and some of their configuration)

$provider->getSystemAgents();

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Databases

This will search in the database for the string provided.

$provider->searchDatabase('Avengers');

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Sessions

This will retrieve the "Now Playing" Information of the PMS.

$provider->getNowPlaying();

Retrieves a listing of all history views.

$provider->getViewsHistory();

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Devices

Gets a list of available clients and servers.

$provider->getDevices();

Get servers devices details.

$provider->getDevices();

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Resources

Gets a list of servers, devices and their sections

$provider->getResources();

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Libraries

This will search in the library for the string provided. The second parameter is the limit.

$provider->searchLibrary('Avengers', 10);

Show ondeck list

$provider->getOnDeck();

Contains all of the sections on the PMS. Confusingly, Plex's UI calls a section a library: e.g. "TV shows" or "Movies". This acts as a directory and you are able to "walk" through it.

$provider->getLibraries();

Get all data in the library for the section passed in.

$provider->getLibrary(1);

Delete a section

$provider->deleteLibrary(1);

Refreshes the library for the section passed in.

$provider->refreshLibrary(1);

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Playlists

Get playlists list.

$provider->getPlaylists();

The key associated with a library.
This key can be found by calling the getPlaylists method.

$provider->getPlaylist(2);

The key associated with a library.
This key can be found by calling the getPlaylists method.

$provider->getPlaylistItems(2);

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Medias

Get photo of specified height and width.

$provider->getPhoto('path', 480, 719);

Ask the server whether it can provide the video with/without transcoding (based on the client profile).

$provider->getVideo('path', 'http');

Marks item with the corresponding "rating key" as watched.

$provider->scrobble('item rating key');

Marks item with the corresponding "rating key" as unwatched.

$provider->unscrobble('item rating key');

Marks media item with the corresponding "rating key" as partially watched, populating its "viewOffset" field.
Time is in milliseconds.

$provider->progress('item rating key', 'offset');

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Translations

Get Translations for example: fr

$provider->getTranslations('fr');

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Acknowledgements

• Plexopedia
• Arcanemagus/Plex-API

License

MIT

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome.
For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.
Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.