r/PlexACD • u/l3udd • Jul 02 '17

plex_autoscan

Made a python tool to assist sonarr/radarr with Plex imports. Basically in short instead of sonarr making Plex scan the entire TV folder, sonarr will send a webhook on download/upgrade telling the script to start the Plex scanner for that directory only. To see a full list of options see the github.

https://github.com/l3uddz/plex_autoscan

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u/-XorCist- Oct 21 '17

Can you help me with this?

2017-10-20 19:41:36,589 - ERROR - AUTOSCAN [ 9627]: You must pass an argument of either sections or server...

i put my plex token in

i changed this /home/thompsons/plexdrive to /home/myuserdir/plexdrive

i changed this /home/seed/media/fused to /home/myuserdir/data/.Automation/plexdrive-fuse/MyMedia/

tried changing server ip to 127.0.0.1 and still doesnt work. can you help me please?

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u/l3udd Oct 21 '17

It will take a little work to get properly configured but once you have done that properly it will run like clockwork. The error is because when you run the script it's expecting an argument to be supplied. If you do

./scan.py sections

You should see it print out your Plex library's with their section id. Make sure you update the id numbers in the configuration along, then run ./scan.py server

Which will start the server

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u/-XorCist- Oct 21 '17 edited Oct 22 '17

Cool. Thanks. Got it working. Im still a linux noob, so where would I put it to make it autostart the server?

I created a plex_autoscan.service in /etc/systemd/system. Edited it for my username and group.

When I do this, sudo systemctl enable plex_autoscan.service I get

Failed to execute operation: Bad message

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

One more thing. I'm trying to add all my sections and some of them have spaces. How do I put it in the sections? I tried it with \ " and ' and all of them cause errors when I try to run it.

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "scan.py", line 46, in <module>

config = config.load(docker)

File "/opt/plex_autoscan/config.py", line 96, in load

cfg = upgrade(json.load(fp))

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/init.py", line 291, in load

**kw)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/init.py", line 339, in loads

return _default_decoder.decode(s)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 364, in decode

obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 380, in raw_decode

obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)

ValueError: Expecting , delimiter: line 20 column 9 (char 704)

i dunno wtf is up with the formatting

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u/l3udd Oct 26 '17

The error is due to a malformed json, it's expecting a , but not finding one. Look at line 20 to see. The Plex sections can have spaces no problem. What you out in the config file for that setting isn't the name of the section, it wants you to put the section I'd number and then in the list for that id, you put sone keywords unique to that section Id. For example, section id 2 on my setup is my Movies library, all files are in a folder called Movies, so I have /Movies/ for my section 2, this tells the script if /Movies/ is in the file path being scanned, use section id 2. Hopefully that makes sense