Alter Plex to refresh specific directories

Thanks to the recent updates to postRadarr.py and postSonarr.py, sickbeard_mp4_automator is functioning flawlessly for imports now. The last remaining issue for me is because I am using plexdrive to mount my media on Google Drive.

If possible, it would be great if the default Plex refresh behavior could be altered to refresh only the new directory instead of the whole library on each import. This would help to reduce the number of API calls made to Google Drive on Plex’s behalf. I know plex_autoscan has implemented this by simply modifying the command line switches passed to Plex Media Scanner and I would imagine a similar implementation may be possible for autoprocess/plex.py.

Let me know if you have any questions or need help testing! Thanks!

[andrewkhunn]

Alright, I figured out how to turn on debugging via stdout and I believe I got everthing working. I ran into a few issues:

1. Forgot to chmod the script 775
2. There were some indentation issues copy/pasting from here
3. Lines 17 & 18 above were malformed

The fixed script is attached below for others:

#!/usr/bin/python
import os
import json
import requests

def main():
  print("plex_autoscan Post-processing Script")
  url = "http://localhost:3689/apikey"

  files = json.loads(os.environ.get('MH_FILES'))
  if not (files):
    print("Error - Did not find environment variables.")
    return

  for filename in files:
    dirname = os.path.dirname(filename)
    payload = {'eventType': 'Manual', 'filepath': dirname}
    try:
      requests.post(url, json=payload)
    except Exception as e:
      print("Error - Request failed")
      print(e)

if __name__ == "__main__":
  main()

Thanks again so much for your help assembling this thing!

[mdhiggins]

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