I want to implement a plugin that generates a list of movies and descriptions for my collection

[DFofanov 0]

I want to implement a plugin that generates a list of movies and descriptions for my collection and, when a request for a link is made, provides a URL generated by my plugin to the streaming server. Is this possible to implement?
Currently, I generate the movie structure on disk in the form of folders with .strm files. I would like the plugin to automatically generate the list for display in the Emby client instead of generating a folder with .strm files.

Could you suggest if this is real and where to read about it?

Perhaps there is an example of implementing this algorithm?

[Luke 42077]

Hi @DFofanovI think the reports plugin is a good place to start:

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/EmbyReports

It can give you examples of querying the database. This will help give you this part:

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generates a list of movies and descriptions for my collection

Having said that, it also doesn't sound like this needs to be a plugin. You could also do it externally from Emby Server using the Emby Server API.

[davidb7170 23]

This is a good feature, I installed the report plugin from the plugin catalog. I like that the data can be exported. I was looking at my library and saw I have some pretty sizeable files that could be re-encoded for size reduction. I'm impressed with this report generator, except that it does not include the media file size in it's data reporting. The sorts on the main screen for movies and such include sort by size, so the data is kept track of. It'd be a very handy inclusion in the reports plugin. I don't see the developer or author in the Emby documentation for the plug in. If you are aware of who this might be, please pass along my suggestion for this improvement. Thank you.

Dave 

[Luke 42077]

10 minutes ago, davidb7170 said:

This is a good feature, I installed the report plugin from the plugin catalog. I like that the data can be exported. I was looking at my library and saw I have some pretty sizeable files that could be re-encoded for size reduction. I'm impressed with this report generator, except that it does not include the media file size in it's data reporting. The sorts on the main screen for movies and such include sort by size, so the data is kept track of. It'd be a very handy inclusion in the reports plugin. I don't see the developer or author in the Emby documentation for the plug in. If you are aware of who this might be, please pass along my suggestion for this improvement. Thank you.

Dave 

HI, the built-in table views are much better now and have more features than the reports plugin. The only thing they don't have yet is exporting data. I think the best thing to do would be to add that and then just retire the reports plugin.

[davidb7170 23]

I think the ability to export the data would be a great addition. I'm trying to hunt down my overly large movie files for a targeted re-encoding to try an keep my storage in check. The main table was very handy when sorted by file size, but was trying to develop a list of them from windows explorer, but can't capture the file size for export to a csv or excel format. I can copy the path as text, but no other data like size directly... 

Well I hope that gets done - you've already been heading that direction, it looks like 

Dave