EmbyMissingEpisodes - Utility to show what TV episodes are missing on your Emby server

[BillOatman 596]

EmbyMissingEpisodes - Utility to show what TV episodes are missing on your Emby server

Running this application will show, and generate a text file, with all the TV episodes that are missing on your Emby server.

Source here

Executables for Windows and other operating systems here.

 

Edited November 27, 2025 by BillOatman

[vincen 71]

Hi

 

Thanks for the share but I don't understand how to run it on Linux as there is no Linux folder in the repository (documentation states to uncompress folder corresponding at operating system...)

 

Vincèn

[Neminem 1515]

Guess you need to look under releases.

I think its the 1 I outlined.

Edited May 25, 2025 by Neminem

[vincen 71]

1 hour ago, Neminem said:

Guess you need to look under releases.

Oups right

[BillOatman 596]

I split the links in the original post to one for source and one for the executables.

[brothom 177]

@BillOatmanisn't this functionality already available via Metadata Manager -> Views -> Missing Episodes?

What does your feature add in this case? Downloading a .txt export of whatever is also under the Metadata Manager?

[BillOatman 596]

On 7/16/2025 at 2:14 AM, brothom said:

@BillOatmanisn't this functionality already available via Metadata Manager -> Views -> Missing Episodes?

What does your feature add in this case? Downloading a .txt export of whatever is also under the Metadata Manager?

It does the search itself via the Emby APIs, allows selection of length of time to look back, and is able to run on a machine other than the Emby Server.

TBH, I had no idea that metadata manager one even existed.

[brothom 177]

 

5 hours ago, BillOatman said:

It does the search itself via the Emby APIs, allows selection of length of time to look back, and is able to run on a machine other than the Emby Server.

TBH, I had no idea that metadata manager one even existed.

@BillOatmanI've been using the Metadata Manager for quite some time now and I find it a pretty good function to have, eventhough I would like to see it technically extended by for example excluding shows from missing episodes.

Maybe Emby has to make the Metadata Manager clearer as a functionality to prevent the community from creating duplicate features.

[BillOatman 596]

On 7/18/2025 at 2:27 AM, brothom said:

 

@BillOatmanI've been using the Metadata Manager for quite some time now and I find it a pretty good function to have, eventhough I would like to see it technically extended by for example excluding shows from missing episodes.

Maybe Emby has to make the Metadata Manager clearer as a functionality to prevent the community from creating duplicate features.

I don't think of it as a duplicate feature.  For example, I have it run periodically and if there are missing episodes from the last 30 days, text them to me.  But to each his own.

[brothom 177]

20 minutes ago, BillOatman said:

I don't think of it as a duplicate feature.  For example, I have it run periodically and if there are missing episodes from the last 30 days, text them to me.  But to each his own.

Absolutely! The sending / reporting of episodes is great! I wish the default Metadata Manager that that integrated as well, but then again I'd like a general messaging system for all web/app platforms as well to notify users of new episodes but also to notify system administrators of missing content or when users receive system errors.

[muiz 16]

And how does this work? I try to run this on a  Synology Docker install. But  no clue how to.

[BillOatman 596]

7 hours ago, muiz said:

And how does this work? I try to run this on a  Synology Docker install. But  no clue how to.

From the github page ...

## Parameters (Case Insensitive)
- EmbyMissingEpisodes API_KEY urlORlocalhost port daysToCheck
- To get Emby api key go to dashboard>advanced>security and generate one
  
## Example
Run on the same server as Emby looking back 30 days.
```
EmbyMissingEpisodes <Emby Key> localhost 8096 30
``` 

If you are unclear on how to do this on Linux, hopefully someone can help you out.  I don't use anything Linux related.

[muiz 16]

I have no problems with Windows and Linux. But this is to unclear for me.

[BillOatman 596]

17 hours ago, muiz said:

I have no problems with Windows and Linux. But this is to unclear for me.

You run it with 2 parameters, the IP address of the Emby server or "localhost", and the number of days to look back for missing episodes, and a text file is created with the results.
I suggest running it on the Emby server at least at first to eliminate any firewall issues.

 

[BillOatman 596]

Updated to latest nuget.

Release

[stenweb 0]

Hey... sorry, I'm probably being really stupid.... but how do I run this thing? My Emby Server is a Debian box, but can I run this locally on MacOS and point it to my Emby Server? If so...... how? The Zip just contains a file that I can't work out how to run.

[BillOatman 596]

23 hours ago, stenweb said:

Hey... sorry, I'm probably being really stupid.... but how do I run this thing? My Emby Server is a Debian box, but can I run this locally on MacOS and point it to my Emby Server? If so...... how? The Zip just contains a file that I can't work out how to run.

Yes you can run on osx and aim at your debian server. Download the osx file from the release then go to the main github page and read how to run it.
Beware though, that you may run into firewall issues that way. 

Edited January 27 by BillOatman

[stenweb 0]

On 27/01/2026 at 01:59, BillOatman said:

Yes you can run on osx and aim at your debian server. Download the osx file from the release then go to the main github page and read how to run it.
Beware though, that you may run into firewall issues that way. 

Thanks but the instructions aren't clear how to run it. I just get a "zsh: command not found: EmbyMissingEpisodes" when running it from a Terminal

[BillOatman 596]

6 hours ago, stenweb said:

Thanks but the instructions aren't clear how to run it. I just get a "zsh: command not found: EmbyMissingEpisodes" when running it from a Terminal

I don't have any IOS or Linux boxes, so I have no clue.  I know both sometimes need execute permissions added to the executable file, but that's the limit of my knowledge.