Get a list of chapters for an item

[chef 3808]

I have no idea how to do this  LOL...

Which service endpoint is responsible for chapter data? 

I thought it was, 'Item' but...

 

 

[Luke 40065]

Hi, just pull down the item you want and there will be a .Chapters property.

[chef 3808]

Sorry, quick follow up.

I should see them as part  of the Entities.BaseItem

[rbjtech 4996]

I can query them via the API ?

curl -X GET "http://***:8096/emby/Items?Fields=Chapters&Ids=440729&api_key=***" -H "accept: application/json"

QueryResult_BaseItemDto{

Items[BaseItemDto{...}]

TotalRecordCountinteger($int32)

}

Output -

 

{
  "Items": [
    {
      "Name": "Spartacus",
      "ServerId": "e9f679de4d284ca2bf07eb4e72a19ea7",
      "Id": "440729",
      "RunTimeTicks": 118038180000,
      "IsFolder": false,
      "Type": "Movie",
      "ImageTags": {
        "Primary": "8142d00c86f41cfa35c4e3576a507359",
        "Logo": "3ee63bb9bdf748e7b47632c3d7b3bdb1",
        "Thumb": "33c6391c68abb9fe673a5aefb3052831"
      },
      "BackdropImageTags": [
        "95a5992d37af26fda7fe16a3359dab98",
        "23494a9c7ae96dfea94460d238bd3021"
      ],
      "Chapters": [
        {
          "StartPositionTicks": 0,
          "Name": "Overture",
          "ImageTag": "fd1ef87c51224ed35e7fdc63dbe9ccc1"
        },
        {
          "StartPositionTicks": 2433680000,
          "Name": "Main Titles",
          "ImageTag": "fd1ef87c51224ed35e7fdc63dbe9ccc1"
        },
        {
          "StartPositionTicks": 4645470000,
          "Name": "A Disease Called Human Slavery",
          "ImageTag": "fd1ef87c51224ed35e7fdc63dbe9ccc1"

.....
        },

Edited March 26, 2021 by rbjtech

[chef 3808]

Ah, BaseItemDto, that is different from the BaseItem object. 

I'll check it out now.

Cool! 

EDIT: Yep, that's it. Thank you

Edited March 26, 2021 by chef

[chef 3808]

Here is a new question about Chapters...

When you want to link to a primary image from the server, the url looks like this:

$"/Items/{item.InternalId}/Images/primary?quality=90&maxHeight=1008&maxWidth=700";

 

Chapters seem to have an "ImagePaths" property, which I would assume is the physical directory of the image... I think...

It also has a "ImageTag" property... 

What does the URL look like for requesting the chapter image? Can you link an image in a URL using Tags?

If not, am I suppose to wrap my own Service Endpoint to handle the "ImagePath" for the chapter? 

Edited March 26, 2021 by chef

[Luke 40065]

Have you checked out the urls used by the web app?

[chef 3808]

Perfect! getting Chapters is:

$"/Items/{item.Id}/Images/Chapter/{index}?maxWidth=637";

 

What is the best way to get the Dto version of a baseItem?

LibraryManager will give me the BaseItem. 

Perhaps I need to request the data based on a User?

 

Edited March 26, 2021 by chef

[chef 3808]

Looks like you can use the "IDtoService" to convert the object... maybe....

[Luke 40065]

You can, but you can probably also just use the original server objects this is just server side code.

[chef 3808]

29 minutes ago, Luke said:

You can, but you can probably also just use the original server objects this is just server side code.

Although there are some properties in BaseItemDto that are not in BaseItem. Chapters for instance. 

 

[chef 3808]

It's not pretty yet, but I got chapters working!

 

 

Edited March 27, 2021 by chef

[Luke 40065]

Great stuff.