plexhints 2024.809.14117

Type hinting library for Plex plugin development.

plexhints

Overview

Attention!

Plex is removing ALL support for plugins. This project is no longer maintained. See Plex Forum for more information.

Plexhints is a set of tools to aid in the development of plugins for Plex Media Server. It is not a framework, but rather a set of tools that can be used to make your life easier.

Documentation is available on Read the Docs.

This project is not affiliated with Plex Inc.

Features

• Python library providing type hints to aid in the development of Plex plugins. Get rid of all those IDE warnings and errors!

• A GitHub Action that will install and bootstrap a Plex Media Server in a CI environment. The action can install plugins and setup dummy libraries. Additionally the Plex token is provided as an output. This is useful for testing your plugin or other Plex project in a CI environment.

github_url:

https://github.com/LizardByte/plexhints/blob/master/docs/source/about/installation.rst

Installation

Python Package

This library is available on PyPI as plexhints. It can be installed in several ways.

PyPI

python -m pip install plexhints

git

python -m pip install git+https://github.com/lizardbyte/plexhints.git@dist#egg=plexhints

github archive

python -m pip install https://github.com/lizardbyte/plexhints/archive/dist.zip#egg=plexhints

github_url:

https://github.com/LizardByte/plexhints/blob/master/docs/source/about/usage.rst

Usage

Plexhints can be used by just importing the plexhints module and running a couple of functions. After doing so you can use plexhints in your IDE and run most of your code outside of Plex. This is useful for debugging and testing.

Main Entry Point

Place this at the top of your Contents/Code/__init__.py file. It is important to only import these when running outside of Plex.

# plex debugging
try:
    import plexhints  # noqa: F401
except ImportError:
    pass
else:  # the code is running outside of Plex
    from plexhints import plexhints_setup, update_sys_path
    plexhints_setup()  # reads the plugin plist file and determine if plexhints should use elevated policy or not
    update_sys_path()  # when running outside plex, append the path

Submodules

In files other than the main __init__.py file, you can simply import the plexhints module and use it as shown.

# plex debugging
try:
    import plexhints  # noqa: F401
except ImportError:
    pass
else:  # the code is running outside of Plex
    from plexhints.log_kit import Log

Available Imports

from plexhints.agent_kit import Agent, Media  # agent kit
from plexhints.core_kit import Core  # core kit
from plexhints.decorator_kit import handler, indirect, route  # decorator kit
from plexhints.exception_kit import Ex  # exception kit
from plexhints.locale_kit import Locale  # locale kit
from plexhints.log_kit import Log  # log kit
from plexhints.model_kit import Movie, VideoClip, VideoClipObject  # model kit
from plexhints.network_kit import HTTP  # network kit
from plexhints.object_kit import Callback, IndirectResponse, MediaObject, MessageContainer, MetadataItem, \
    MetadataSearchResult, PartObject, SearchResult  # object kit
from plexhints.parse_kit import HTML, JSON, Plist, RSS, XML, YAML  # parse kit
from plexhints.prefs_kit import Prefs  # prefs kit
from plexhints.proxy_kit import Proxy  # proxy kit
from plexhints.resource_kit import Resource  # resource kit
from plexhints.shortcut_kit import L, E, D, R, S  # shortcut kit
from plexhints.util_kit import String, Util  # util kit

from plexhints.constant_kit import CACHE_1MINUTE, CACHE_1HOUR, CACHE_1DAY, CACHE_1WEEK, CACHE_1MONTH  # constant kit
from plexhints.constant_kit import ClientPlatforms, Protocols, OldProtocols, ServerPlatforms, ViewTypes, \
    SummaryTextTypes, AudioCodecs, VideoCodecs, Containers, ContainerContents, \
    StreamTypes  # constant kit, more commonly used in URL services

# extra objects
from plexhints.extras_kit import BehindTheScenesObject, \
    ConcertVideoObject, \
    DeletedSceneObject, \
    FeaturetteObject, \
    InterviewObject, \
    LiveMusicVideoObject, \
    LyricMusicVideoObject, \
    MusicVideoObject, \
    OtherObject, \
    SceneOrSampleObject, \
    ShortObject, \
    TrailerObject