api command to refresh movies / seasons /episodes with missing images

[horstepipe 377]

Hello

If somebody has a few minutes, would you please bring me to the right direction

Scrolling through the reports plugin, e.g. reports selected for seasons, I'm seeing at the status column that some primary images are missing.

So what I'd like to accomplish is a command which only checks for these missing images, as refreshing the whole library takes very long and would hit the apis hard.

 

As the Emby api is very extensive, for sure there is a way doing this?

[Luke 40072]

Hi, you'd have to do this in two steps, first use the api to query for items (seasons) missing primary images.

Then once you have that list, then you'd use the api to refresh the metadata on those.

[horstepipe 377]

On 6/26/2022 at 8:56 PM, Luke said:

Hi, you'd have to do this in two steps, first use the api to query for items (seasons) missing primary images.

Then once you have that list, then you'd use the api to refresh the metadata on those.

just coming back to this.
I'd like to limit the api call to seasons (and episodes later) which released maximal 2 months ago. As mostly these items have missing images.

Is there a way doing this? I am just seeing

minPremiereDate 

which is a fixed date and no period of time.

Best regards

Edited July 28, 2022 by horstepipe

[Luke 40072]

Yes I would use MinPremiereDate and just make the calculation on your end of what that value should be.

[horstepipe 377]

soo I'm having this call:

curl "https://emby.url/emby/Users/xxx/Items?IncludeItemTypes=Episode&Recursive=True&MinPremiereDate=2022-06-01&ExcludeLocationTypes=Virtual&Fields=DateCreated,SeriesName&Limit=500&GroupItems=false&SortBy=DateCreated&SortOrder=Descending&format=json&api_key=yyy"

which does what I want for episodes.

The only issue I'm facing is that it also shows recorded episodes in the output.

How can I exclude them?

Best regards

[horstepipe 377]

Here is my bash script if anybody is interested:

date=`date --iso-8601 --date='-1 month'`
curl "https://emby.url/emby/Users/*user-id*/Items?Recursive=True&IncludeItemTypes=Episode,Movie&MinPremiereDate=$date&ExcludeLocationTypes=Virtual&Fields=DateCreated,SeriesName&GroupItems=false&SortBy=DateCreated&SortOrder=Descending&format=json&api_key=*api-key*" | jq -r '.Items[]' | jq -r .Id | while read ids
do
curl -X POST "https://*emby.url*/emby/Items/$ids/Refresh?Recursive=false&MetadataRefreshMode=FullRefresh&ImageRefreshMode=Default&ReplaceAllMetadata=true&ReplaceAllImages=false&api_key=*api-key*" -H "accept: */*"
done

It refreshes items with a premier date one month ago. You can change it in the upper line.

some questions though:

As mentioned, what is the best way to exclude recordings?

For metadatarefreeshmode and imagerefreshmode there are three options, what is ValidationOnly for?

ReplaceAllImages = false will still fetch missing images, correct?

Edited September 2, 2022 by horstepipe

[Luke 40072]

ValidationOnly is obsolete.