Emby API - Change Path

[Steve Cartman 11]

My Movie scan is very slow (About 6500 movies)

My MetaData (NFO file) and images are in the same folder as the video file.

But all the movies are in the same folder. /Movies

I have decide to change the folder structure to the following:

/Movies/First Letter of Title/Movie folder/Movie

So for example for the movie:  Wings (1927) [tmdbid=28966].mkv

the structure would be:  /Movies/V/Wings (1927) [tmdbid=28966]/Wings (1927) [tmdbid=28966].mkv

I have written a program to create the folders, and move the files to the correct movie folder. (Including the NFO file)

Now here's the problem: I am using the API to change the path:

From:  /Movies/Wings (1927) [tmdbid=28966].mkv

To:    /Movies/V/Wings (1927) [tmdbid=28966]/Wings (1927) [tmdbid=28966].mkv

But path is not updated in the NFO file:  /Movies/V/Wings (1927) [tmdbid=28966]/Wings (1927) [tmdbid=28966].NFO

AND a new NFO is created in:   /Movies

Attached is the log:

Search for this line in the log: 

2022-12-28 14:33:41.427 Debug App: Saving nfo metadata for /Movies2/Movies/Wings (1927) [tmdbid=28966].mkv to /Movies2/Movies/Wings (1927) [tmdbid=28966].nfo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

embyserver (7).txt

[Luke 37100]

Hi, what api are you using to change the path? We don't even have such a thing.

[softworkz 3338]

18 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, what api are you using to change the path? We don't even have such a thing.

Probably he's using this: https://dev.emby.media/reference/RestAPI/ItemUpdateService/postItemsByItemid.html

@Steve Cartman - You can't update an item's path this way. You need to perform a library scan to update the item locations.

[Steve Cartman 11]

5 hours ago, softworkz said:

Probably he's using this: https://dev.emby.media/reference/RestAPI/ItemUpdateService/postItemsByItemid.html

@Steve Cartman - You can't update an item's path this way. You need to perform a library scan to update the item locations.

I read the item with this API: http://192.168.2.16:8096/emby/Users/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/Items/29931?api_key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I change the path (JSON  Parse)

I post it back. 

(I know the post works, because I use it to change Genre, Community Rating and Critic Rating)

 

Edited December 28, 2022 by GrimReaper
Removed serverid & api key

[softworkz 3338]

10 minutes ago, Steve Cartman said:

(I know the post works, because I use it to change Genre, Community Rating and Critic Rating)

Yes it works, that's what it's intended for. But:

3 hours ago, softworkz said:

You can't update an item's path this way.

PS: You might want to edit out your API key from the post.

[Steve Cartman 11]

2 hours ago, softworkz said:

Yes it works, that's what it's intended for. But:

PS: You might want to edit out your API key from the post.

My Bad. Can't seem to edit a post. Could you edit  api key or delete post.

[Happy2Play 8296]

11 minutes ago, Steve Cartman said:

My Bad. Can't seem to edit a post. Could you edit  api key or delete post.

done

[GrimReaper 3308]

Lol guess we were editing at the same time.

[softworkz 3338]

At the same time, I've written to Abo, asking why I cannot edit posts in this specific section.
We're such a good forum - nobody can say we wouldn't care about users  

[Abobader 2947]

4 hours ago, softworkz said:

We're such a good forum - nobody can say we wouldn't care about users

Indeed, since I manage to do that before I drink my first cup of coffee

[softworkz 3338]

1 minute ago, Abobader said:

Indeed, since I manage to do that before I drink my first cup of coffee

You're the best!

[Steve Cartman 11]

Thanks All.