Scan Single Libraries Only

[Spaceboy 2573]

A request for more granular control over the scanning of single libraries has long been asked for and not implemented to date. Thinking of in particular the frequency with which they are scanned.

Is there anyway to scan single libraries at all? thinking of via the API. i took a look but it seems its all or nothing still

Reason for asking is my library takes roughly 6 hours to complete a full scan on a daily basis. the number of items within the library are probably the cause of this (12k movies, c50k episodes, 250k songs, 15k photos and quite a bit more). but typically the only libraries to which new media is added on a daily basis are movies and tv. the other libraries do not need scanning. RTM is also ineffective due to library size so is only enabled on my live tv recordings library.

Or am i just SOL?

[Q-Droid 989]

Are you allowing the scans to refresh metadata after initial import? I'm wondering if setting that to "Never" would cut down on the overhead. I know this doesn't answer your actual question and would be a nice feature to have more granular control of library scans.

 

[Spaceboy 2573]

16 minutes ago, Q-Droid said:

Are you allowing the scans to refresh metadata after initial import? I'm wondering if setting that to "Never" would cut down on the overhead. I know this doesn't answer your actual question and would be a nice feature to have more granular control of library scans.

 

nope, pure scan only. metadata provided by TMM

[rbjtech 5284]

You can specify the library to scan using it's parent id on the standard API

http://localhost:8097/emby/Items/39006/Refresh?Recursive=true&ImageRefreshMode=Default&MetadataRefreshMode=Default&ReplaceAllImages=false&ReplaceAllMetadata=false&X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Microsoft Edge Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=704173df-a340-41e8-b7fe-7af6ee1830ad&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.8.0.8

As an example - 39006 is the Parent Id of the library.

edit - something like this in Curl/API

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8097/emby/Items/39006/Refresh?Recursive=true&MetadataRefreshMode=Default&ImageRefreshMode=Default&ReplaceAllMetadata=false&ReplaceAllImages=false&api_key=******" -H "accept: */*"

Parent Id is shown in the URL when browsing the libraries

http://localhost:8097/web/index.html#!/videos?serverId=****&parentId=39006

Edited August 20, 2022 by rbjtech

[Spaceboy 2573]

nice - cheers

[Spaceboy 2573]

seems like its gone

 

[Happy2Play 9783]

7 minutes ago, Spaceboy said:

seems like its gone

 

Nope nothing has changed.

[Luke 42085]

Nothing has been removed.

[Spaceboy 2573]

this has been working for me for the past few months but has suddenly stopped. i can't see why. this was my curl command

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8096/emby/Items/f137a2dd21bbc1b99aa5c0f6bf02a805/Refresh?Recursive=true&MetadataRefreshMode=Default&ImageRefreshMode=Default&ReplaceAllMetadata=false&ReplaceAllImages=false&api_key=blahblah" -H "accept: */*"

i assume following the instructions provided by rjbtech that f137a2dd21bbc1b99aa5c0f6bf02a805 was my parentId

looking at the library now the parentId seems to be 115796.

however

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8096/emby/Items/115796/Refresh?Recursive=true&MetadataRefreshMode=Default&ImageRefreshMode=Default&ReplaceAllMetadata=false&ReplaceAllImages=false&api_key=blahblah" -H "accept: */*"

doesnt get me a library scan either. is it me or the API? most likely me but i'm stuck

[rbjtech 5284]

Just tried with the above syntax at it looks ok, scan of that library was started as I can see it in the logs.   library parentId=2237026 in my case.

2022-11-26 16:53:24.997 Info Server: http/1.1 POST http://‌‍‍localhost‌:8096/emby/Items/2237026/Refresh?Recursive=true&MetadataRefreshMode=Default&ImageRefreshMode=Default&ReplaceAllMetadata=false&eplaceAllImages=false. UserAgent: curl/7.83.1
2022-11-26 16:53:24.997 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 204 to ‌‍‍127.0.0.1‌. Time: 0ms. http://‌‍‍localhost‌:8096/emby/Items/2237026/Refresh?Recursive=true&MetadataRefreshMode=Default&ImageRefreshMode=Default&ReplaceAllMetadata=false&eplaceAllImages=false

Quote

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8096/emby/Items/2237026/Refresh?Recursive=true&MetadataRefreshMode=Default&ImageRefreshMode=Default&ReplaceAllMetadata=false&eplaceAllImages=false&api_key=*" -H "accept: */*"

latest beta 4.8.0.19

maybe create a new API key to test ?

Edited November 26, 2022 by rbjtech

[Luke 42085]

4 hours ago, Spaceboy said:

this has been working for me for the past few months but has suddenly stopped. i can't see why. this was my curl command

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8096/emby/Items/f137a2dd21bbc1b99aa5c0f6bf02a805/Refresh?Recursive=true&MetadataRefreshMode=Default&ImageRefreshMode=Default&ReplaceAllMetadata=false&ReplaceAllImages=false&api_key=blahblah" -H "accept: */*"

i assume following the instructions provided by rjbtech that f137a2dd21bbc1b99aa5c0f6bf02a805 was my parentId

looking at the library now the parentId seems to be 115796.

however

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8096/emby/Items/115796/Refresh?Recursive=true&MetadataRefreshMode=Default&ImageRefreshMode=Default&ReplaceAllMetadata=false&ReplaceAllImages=false&api_key=blahblah" -H "accept: */*"

doesnt get me a library scan either. is it me or the API? most likely me but i'm stuck

What does it get you? Server log?