api call to create/add new library (eg. via curl post)?

[masp 0]

Hi!  I find myself having to re-create libraries quite often (I frequently re-image my server, for instance), and it's a bit painful having to add libraries manually each time.  I found the (swagger) docs for api calls that I could make via (eg.) curl here (localhost):

 

  http://localhost:8096/swagger-ui/index.html

 

but it doesn't seem to include a call to create/add a new library.  Is that possible?  I'm hoping for something like:

 

  curl -H "token:abcdef" -X POST -F 'name=videos' -F 'real_time_monitoring=true' http://localhost:8096/CreateLibrary

 

but obviously happy with anything that allows me to create libraries programmatically!

 

Thanks,

 

Mike

Edited October 30, 2016 by masp

[Luke 37067]

Hi, it is possible. Unfortunately this is an area of the api that hasn't been needed heavily by others so therefore we haven't taken the time to document it fully. Therefore the best way to find out what's going on would be to review our api client libraries, which our apps use:

 

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.ApiClient.Javascript/blob/master/apiclient.js

[masp 0]

Thanks!  Can you give me a clue as to which method to look for?  Best I can guess is maybe addVirtualFolder (?).

 

Update: in the meantime I'm trying to authenticate: following the swagger docs + some other hints, it looks like this should work:

 

 

curl -X POST -d "{Username:\"mike\", Password:\"adc83b19e793491b1c6ea0fd8b46cd9f32e592fc\",PasswordMd5=\"68b329da9893e34099c7d8ad5cb9c940\"}" "http://127.0.0.1:8096/Users/AuthenticateByName?format=json"

 

(where the passwords are hashes of the empty string, since I don't have a password) but it errors out with:

 

 

{"ResponseStatus":{"ErrorCode":"ArgumentNullException","Message":"Value cannot be null.\nParameter name: username","Errors":[{"ErrorCode":"ArgumentNullException","FieldName":"username","Message":"Value cannot be null.\n"}]}} 

 

I've tried using lowercase (username) but no change.  Is there a simple fix, to save my hours of experimentation?

 

Thanks,

 

Mike

Edited October 31, 2016 by masp

[masp 0]

I've looked at all the examples I can find, and fixed my broken md5/sha1 hashes, but I still have the same problem.  This is the best I can come up with: [edited to quote the json keys]

 

 

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Authorization: MediaBrowser Client="testingembyclient", Device="testingembydevice", DeviceId="6c37664af595bec4424bad444f842af9e0916ab1", Version="1.0.0", UserId="4b023a683f404b63a5174f859f42bd06"' -d "{[\"Username\":\"mike\", \"password\":\"da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709\",\"passwordMd5\"=\"d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e\"]}" "http://127.0.0.1:8096/Users/AuthenticateByName?format=json"

 

but response is:

 

 

{"ResponseStatus":{"ErrorCode":"ArgumentNullException","Message":"Value cannot be null.\nParameter name: username","Errors":[{"ErrorCode":"ArgumentNullException","FieldName":"username","Message":"Value cannot be null.\n"}]}}

 

Any pointers will be gratefully received!  I was very excited when I found emby, partly because it has such a full API, but it's frustratingly hard to get it to work!  I must be doing something stupid: if anyone can point it out to me that would be great!

 

Mike

Edited November 7, 2016 by masp

[ebr 14913]

Looks like a syntax error in your json (= instead of but not sure if that is the exact problem here.

[masp 0]

Rats!  Thanks!  I also appended "format=json" to the url.  Unfortunately neither fix gets me to a working query

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Authorization: MediaBrowser Client="testingembyclient", Device="testingembydevice", DeviceId="6c37664af595bec4424bad444f842af9e0916ab1", Version="1.0.0", UserId="4b023a683f404b63a5174f859f42bd06"' --data '{["username":"mike", "password":"da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709","passwordMd5":"d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"]}' "http://127.0.0.1:8096/Users/AuthenticateByName?format=json"

Edited November 7, 2016 by masp

[Luke 37067]

the best thing to do is add a library with the web app and compare the requests using the chrome debugger. And also see the api wiki if you haven't already:

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/wiki

[masp 0]

Thanks, that did the trick!   I just had to remove the outer list [] in the post data (could have sworn I'd tried it both ways!!). Thanks very much for the tip: those devtools are really useful!!