''' Pull Movie and TV Show poster images from Plex. Save to Movie and TV Show directories in scripts working directory.

'''

from plexapi.server import PlexServer

pip install plexapi

import re import os import urllib

PLEX_URL = 'http://localhost:32400' PLEX_TOKEN = 'xxxxxxx' plex = PlexServer(PLEX_URL, PLEX_TOKEN)

library_name = ['Movies','TV Shows'] # You library names

Create paths for Movies and TV Shows inside current directory

movie_path = '{}/Movies'.format(os.path.dirname(file)) if not os.path.isdir(movie_path): os.mkdir(movie_path)

show_path = '{}/TV Shows'.format(os.path.dirname(file)) if not os.path.isdir(show_path): os.mkdir(show_path)

child_lst = []

Get all movies or shows from LIBRARY_NAME

for library in library_name: for child in plex.library.section(library).all(): child_lst.append(child)

for video in child_lst: # Clean names of special characters name = re.sub('\W+',' ', video.title) # Pull URL for poster thumb_url = '{}{}?X-Plex-Token={}'.format(PLEX_URL, video.thumb, PLEX_TOKEN) if video.type == 'movie': image_path = u'{}/{}.jpg'.format(movie_path, name) if os.path.isfile(image_path): print("ERROR, %s already exist" % image_path) else: # Save to Movie directory urllib.urlretrieve(thumb_url, image_path) elif video.type == 'show': image_path = u'{}/{}.jpg'.format(show_path, name) if os.path.isfile(image_path): print("ERROR, %s already exist" % image_path) else: # Save to TV Show directory urllib.urlretrieve(thumb_url, image_path)