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Tautulli (Plex tracker)

It would be nice to track movies/TV, like with Last.fm and music

I can’t find anything regarding an official Plex API, but there’s a monitoring tool called Tautulli, that’s monitors Plex and collect all kinds of data, like who watches right now, the most watched movie and much more, and Tautulli has an API: https://github.com/Tautulli/Tautulli/blob/master/API.md

The Exist integration would just need the Tautulli URL and API key to begin collecting from Tautulli.

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Tagged as Integration

Suggested 16 August 2019 by user Peter

Moved into Suggestions 19 August 2019

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  • 16 August 2019 Peter suggested this task

  • 17 August 2019 Josh Sharp moved this task into Not possible/Seek alternatives

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    As far as I understand it, both Plex and Tautulli run on a local server, so there’d be no way for Exist to connect to read stats.

    17 August 2019
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    There would be a way, as I described. Exist should just receive the URL of Tautulli (similar to the way you add calendars) and the API key, then it can read from Tautulli. Exists doesn’t need to know anything about Plex, as Tautulli is collecting the data and exposes it’s own readable API with sanitized data.

    It’s of course only possible if the Tautulli server is available on the internet, mine is for example. But that goes for calendars as well. If you use a local Google Calendar alternative that’s only locally facing, you can’t connect to it.

    19 August 2019
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    Right, it seemed from the docs that it was designed to be run locally, not on an internet-facing server. If it is possible and common to run it in a way that’s accessible, I’ll update that.

    19 August 2019
  • 19 August 2019 Josh Sharp moved this task into Suggestions

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    Oh yeah, I can see that - But you can do both.

    I think that most people running Plex, also runs Tautulli. But that being said, I don’t know how many runs it on publicly facing servers accessible on the internet.

    Trakt.tv does the same thing. So maybe Trakt.tv would be a higher priority than this, in regards of movie/TV tracking.

    I will be happy to help out if anything is needed

    20 August 2019
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    Thanks. Definitely think Trakt makes more sense, and it is already a more popular suggestion.

    20 August 2019