plexutils 1.1.0

tools for plex admins

Setup Project

install with poetry

• Poetry installation documentation
• open the terminal in the project directory
• execute poetry install to install the dependencies
• execute poetry run compile-messages to install other languages
• execute poetry run generate-test-data to generate the test data for the unittests
• execute poetry run plexutils to run the script

config.yaml

To create a config.yaml file you can simply copy or rename the example-config.yaml file to config.yaml and adjust the settings to your needs.

Language

Example

language: de_DE

Supported languages

• de_DE german (germany)
• de_AT german (tyrol)
• en_US english

Plex Libraries

Example

libraries:
  - name: Movies
    type: movie
    lang:
      dub: de_DE
      sub: de_DE
    path: /.../movies
  - name: TV Shows
    type: tvshow
    lang:
      dub: de_DE
      sub: de_DE
    path: /.../tvshows

Description

Under the libraries key you can define your plex libraries. Each library has the following keys:

• name (required): The name of the library
• type (required): The type of the library. Possible values are movie and tvshow
• path (required): The path to the library
• lang (optional): The language settings for the library. Each library has the following keys:
  • dub (optional): The default is en_US. The language of the dubbing
  • sub (optional): The language of the subtitles

TVDB Credentials

To get the TVDB credentials you need to create an account on thetvdb.com and create a new API key and pin.

Example

tvdb:
  api_key: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
  api_pin: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Description

Under the tvdb key you can define your TVDB credentials:

• api_key (required): The API key
• api_pin (required): The API pin

Documentation

Update the documentation

• open the terminal in the project directory
• execute poetry run generate-docs to generate the documentation with sphinx

Features

MovieFileUtils

1. validate movie filename syntax

TVShowFileUtils

1. validate tvshow directory syntax
2. validate season directory syntax
3. validate episode filename syntax

TVDBUtils

1. search in tvdb for new seasons of existing tvshows
2. search in tvdb for missing episodes of existing seasons of existing tvshows

Contribute

Add new language

Unix

1. install xgettext
2. create the messages.pot file
   1. (unix) find . -iname "*.py" | xargs xgettext -o messages.pot
3. rename the messages.pot file to plexutils.po
4. move plexutils.po to locale/xx_XX/LC_MESSAGES/
5. execute msgfmt locale/xx_XX/LC_MESSAGES/plexutils.po -o locale/xx_XX/LC_MESSAGES/plexutils.mo
6. change the language in the config.yaml
7. DONE!

Windows

1. install babel if not installed (pip install Babel)
2. create babel.cfg with [python: **.py] as its content
3. open Command Prompt (cmd) and navigate to your project directory. Run:

   pybabel extract -F babel.cfg -o messages.pot .
   

4. run the following command, replacing xx_XX with your language code (e.g., de_DE for German):

   pybabel init -i messages.pot -d locale -l xx_XX
   

5. open the generated .po file in locale/xx_XX/LC_MESSAGES/ directory with a text editor and translate the messages into your desired language
6. rename the messages.pot file to plexutils.po
7. compile the .po file to a .mo file: Execute:

   pybabel compile -d locale
   

8. Open config.yaml in a text editor and update the language setting (e.g., language: de_DE)
9. DONE!