Closed eyeruleall closed 4 months ago
eyeruleall
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4 months ago To be more specific, the boolean should answer "Has the server owner or any of their friends added this to their watchlist?"
The [list] value should list the users who have added this to their watchlist.
jorenn92
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4 months ago Hey, so in the past, there was a limitation with the watchlist API. It only allowed access to the watchlist of the currently logged-in user, typically your admin user. Watchlists aren't directly tied to your server; you can only access them by querying the public Plex API with a key specific to your user.
However, there's been an improvement recently. Now, there's an option to make watchlists public. I haven't explored this yet, but there's a feature request to investigate whether we can utilize public watchlists now. Please bump that task if you're interested.
I'll close this now, since i don't want feature request clutter the issue page.
Zipties
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2 months ago Hey, so in the past, there was a limitation with the watchlist API. It only allowed access to the watchlist of the currently logged-in user, typically your admin user. Watchlists aren't directly tied to your server; you can only access them by querying the public Plex API with a key specific to your user.
However, there's been an improvement recently. Now, there's an option to make watchlists public. I haven't explored this yet, but there's a feature request to investigate whether we can utilize public watchlists now. Please bump that task if you're interested.
I'll close this now, since i don't want feature request clutter the issue page.
873
Interesting, so is the reason I can view my users watchlists in overseerarr because the users directly authenticate with it? And if so, can they be synced from there instead of from plex?
jorenn92
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2 months ago Hey, so in the past, there was a limitation with the watchlist API. It only allowed access to the watchlist of the currently logged-in user, typically your admin user. Watchlists aren't directly tied to your server; you can only access them by querying the public Plex API with a key specific to your user. However, there's been an improvement recently. Now, there's an option to make watchlists public. I haven't explored this yet, but there's a feature request to investigate whether we can utilize public watchlists now. Please bump that task if you're interested. I'll close this now, since i don't want feature request clutter the issue page.
873
Interesting, so is the reason I can view my users watchlists in overseerarr because the users directly authenticate with it? And if so, can they be synced from there instead of from plex?
Yes, that's the reason. Users log in with their individual accounts and thus have access to those resources. Hmm, good suggestion! Overseerr does appear to have an endpoint for this: https://api-docs.overseerr.dev/#/users/get_user__userId__watchlist.
eyeruleall
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2 months ago FYI, there is a way to do this without touching overseerr.
https://github.com/nylonee/watchlistarr/blob/main/src/main/scala/plex/PlexUtils.scala
It is possible to get the server owner, all of their friends, and all of their watchlist items, with just the server owner's token.
jorenn92
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2 months ago FYI, there is a way to do this without touching overseerr.
https://github.com/nylonee/watchlistarr/blob/main/src/main/scala/plex/PlexUtils.scala
It is possible to get the server owner, all of their friends, and all of their watchlist items, with just the server owner's token.
Thanks for this! That sounds like the best approach available. Do you know if users have to set their watchlists as public before the server owner is eligible to see it? Or is it always public. I seem to remember this option wasn't there when i first looked into it.
Btw, let's move this discussion to https://github.com/jorenn92/Maintainerr/discussions/873. That task is still open.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
For my ideal use case, I need a way to determine if a piece of media is present in a user's plex watchlist.
Describe the solution you'd like
Add "In a Plex Watchlist" boolean and "Plex [list] in Watchlist" values listing usernames.
Additional context
My use case heavily utilizes the Plex Watchlist feature.
If an item is on a "leaving soon" collection created by maintainerr, I would like for users to be able to remove items from that collection on maintainerr's next scan by adding it to their watchlist.
Overseer can create requests when a user adds media to a watchlist, but it does not create requests if the media exists in the library, so a "Requested in Overseer" boolean check does not work.
A boolean checking if something is on a user's watchlist would help overcome this problem. A list of usernames who has this in this watchlist could also be helpful.