Proxy setting for emby?

[xyzeratul 2]

One of my emby server is running behind a sensitive network, all traffic to tvdb or moivedb have to use a http or sock5 proxy, so it is unable to scrap info from them.

I couldn't find any info on how to setup a proxy on emby, any suggestions?

[rbjtech 5392]

The proxy settings themselves on the emby 'server' just need to point all external web traffic to the proxy - there is no specific proxy setting within the Application. (use the browser network config to do this).

On the proxy itself, you need to whitelist the Provider websites and 

https://mb3admin.com

https://github.com/mediabrowser

from the Emby Server host - or whitelist from all sources to make it easier.

Edited February 20, 2023 by rbjtech

[Luke 43221]

15 hours ago, xyzeratul said:

One of my emby server is running behind a sensitive network, all traffic to tvdb or moivedb have to use a http or sock5 proxy, so it is unable to scrap info from them.

I couldn't find any info on how to setup a proxy on emby, any suggestions?

Can you setup a proxy on the host system?

[xyzeratul 2]

On 21/02/2023 at 01:57, Luke said:

Can you setup a proxy on the host system?

yes, but I don't want to rerouting all traffic from the server or the emby to the proxy, right now only thing not working is tvdb and moivedb info scrapping.

[rbjtech 5392]

7 hours ago, xyzeratul said:

yes, but I don't want to rerouting all traffic from the server or the emby to the proxy, right now only thing not working is tvdb and moivedb info scrapping.

A proxy doesn't work like that - the proxy controls what goes through it based on it's local config.  Usually it's all 'internet/outbound' bound traffic - all local traffic will not go through the proxy.

This is a question you need to ask your proxy provider - emby will have no say in how your network traffic is routed and they have no way to route individual requests - as they simply use URL's to do so (generic 'web' based API request).

Can your emby host get to those sites as normal web requests - ie thetvdb.com and themoviedb.org ?  the API sites will be different but try those first.

Edited February 22, 2023 by rbjtech

[xyzeratul 2]

21 hours ago, rbjtech said:

A proxy doesn't work like that - the proxy controls what goes through it based on it's local config.  Usually it's all 'internet/outbound' bound traffic - all local traffic will not go through the proxy.

This is a question you need to ask your proxy provider - emby will have no say in how your network traffic is routed and they have no way to route individual requests - as they simply use URL's to do so (generic 'web' based API request).

Can your emby host get to those sites as normal web requests - ie thetvdb.com and themoviedb.org ?  the API sites will be different but try those first.

OK got it, this have to be set in proxy rules I guess, I asked this because there is a similar software has the proxy setting just for meta info scrapping.

Yea I tried get to the API sites in this network, fully blocked.

anyway thanks for the help, it's a temporary setup, if the proxy still not working, I just go back to the manul way.