Trigger a library rescan from cron

[JuJuJurassic 49]

Hi All,

I want to trigger a library scan after an event in cron. The cron task looks and copies new files over, only if they are less than a day old, after it's found some and moved them, I'd like to trigger Emby to rescan it's libraries. However there may not be files always in which case I don't want it to trigger a rescan.

Is there a way to do it? If not I've set the library to rescan every hour.

Thanks and have a good evening

[darkassassin07 652]

curl -X 'POST' 'http://<emby-host>/emby/Library/Refresh?api_key=<key>' -H 'accept: */*' -d ''

 

Add your hostname and api key and this will trigger a full library scan.

Edited February 21, 2025 by darkassassin07
Missed a space

[JuJuJurassic 49]

Brilliant, thank you

 

[JuJuJurassic 49]

I just copied and pasted it into a terminal

curl -X 'POST' 'http://11.22.33.44/emby/Library/Refresh?api_key=123456' -H 'accept: */*' -d''

and got

curl: option -d: requires parameter
 

The problem with a copy and paste is it sometimes misses something. is the line above correct?

Thanks

[darkassassin07 652]

I missed a space, fixed.

[darkassassin07 652]

Also, unless you run emby on port 80, remember to add :8096 to your ip

[Happy2Play 9780]

There are many posts on this.  Have you actually when to Emby's API?

REST API Documentation

[Happy2Play 9780]

But can depend on if you want to scan a specific library or all libraries also.

 

[JuJuJurassic 49]

Thank you all so much. I'm going to have a look at this tomorrow, but for now I'm going to watch my emby, have a good evening

 

[Happy2Play 9780]

A side note you may run into CORS issues depending on your Emby connection as the Swagger will require localhost or https connection unless you adjust browser flags for your server connection mentioned at the beginning of this How to.