Is there a way to access Now Watching from the API?

[mchahn 22]

I want my app to know what we are watching on ROKU while we are watching it.   Is there a way to access Now Watching from the API?  I could scrape it from the dashboard but I hate to scrape.  Could webhooks help here? 

[darkassassin07 652]

If you head to your server dashboard and click 'API' at the bottom, there's an api exploration tool.

I don't know a whole lot about it; but poking around, it seems like 'GET /Sessions' under 'SessionsService' may be what you are looking for.

[guunter 49]

2 hours ago, mchahn said:

I want my app to know what we are watching on ROKU while we are watching it.   Is there a way to access Now Watching from the API?  I could scrape it from the dashboard but I hate to scrape.  Could webhooks help here? 

Just use the api keys. I achieve this with my dashboard.

 

[seanbuff 1316]

8 minutes ago, guunter said:

Just use the api keys. I achieve this with my dashboard.

Is that Homepage?

[guunter 49]

2 hours ago, seanbuff said:

Is that Homepage?

Yea it is

[mchahn 22]

Thanks to all.  Good to know I can get it from the API.

I'll try the dashboard  API button.  When I tried years ago I couldn't get it to work, even with help from here.  Don't remember the problem exactly.  Something to do with https.

Homepage is interesting.  It seems to be a kind of Home Assistant but for the cloud instead of the smarthome.  I use Home Assistant constantly..

[mchahn 22]

The amount of data in the API is awesome.  Swagger works great.   Thanks again.

[guunter 49]

2 hours ago, mchahn said:

Thanks to all.  Good to know I can get it from the API.

I'll try the dashboard  API button.  When I tried years ago I couldn't get it to work, even with help from here.  Don't remember the problem exactly.  Something to do with https.

Homepage is interesting.  It seems to be a kind of Home Assistant but for the cloud instead of the smarthome.  I use Home Assistant constantly..

Pretty much got all my links to my homelab on there and integrates with a lot of things using API. But off topic for this forum.

[guunter 49]

But also a sidenote Jellystat is awesome for what you want. It ties in with emby now.

 

[mchahn 22]

My app is also quite awesome (IMHO) but it's not ready for public consumption.  I don't think it is wrong to chat about 3rd-party stuff here as long as they supplement emby.  My app only works with emby.  The moderator might correct me.

[GrimReaper 4740]

11 minutes ago, mchahn said:

I don't think it is wrong to chat about 3rd-party stuff here

It ain't, there's also a dedicated forum section where one can find both community-made and 3rd-party tools/utilities/refernces that might come-in handy.

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