This script collects metadata (summary and images) for your plex collection that were created based on TheMovieDB. This fork fixed Invalid collections/does not match with TMDB collection issue.
How does it work?
The script collects all collections from your movie library that do not have a summary yet. It does this by looking the movies within the collection. The movies have a reference to the collection on TheMovieDB. If a valid collection reference can be found it will pull the summary as well as download posters/background images (and use the same web calls as if you were manually updating it over the web interface).
A sample on a small test library looks like this:
Attention
Currently this has only been tested with a couple of libraries, so I would recommend to do a database backup before starting the process (even though I don't think the script can do any real harm).
Download/Clone this Git with command below:
sudo apt install git
sudo git clone https://github.com/chocolateshirt/TMDB-Collection-Data-Retriever.git
The following additional python libraries are used requests, plexapi, progress. Install it with PIP.
sudo apt install python3 python3-pip
sudo python3 -m pip install requests
sudo python3 -m pip install plexapi
sudo python3 -m pip install progress
Add your server ip and your plex token to the setting.ini
https://support.plex.tv/articles/204059436-finding-an-authentication-token-x-plex-token/
Additionally you can:
- enable/disable the preference to prefer local art (if you have a non english library and want to get images in that langauge)
- change the limit of posters/backgrounds you want to download
Python 3 (tested with 3.8.5)