Duplicate Genre-based home sections

[brothom 177]

I'm not sure a feature request for this already exists but I couldn't find any, so here goes.

 

Currently we have sections like "Resume viewing", "Recent movies", "Latest media", etc but these are mostly based on the latest / most recently added items.

I would like to see a section based on a specific (or preferably random) genre such as "Best rated Western", "Unwatched Adventure", etc.

Looking at the current Search function this should be possible using existing queries. For example:

Genres can be fetched using:

/Genres?IncludeItemTypes=Movie&Fields=BasicSyncInfo%2CCanDelete%2CCanDownload%2CPrimaryImageAspectRatio&StartIndex=0&SortBy=SortName&SortOrder=Ascending&ParentId=9&EnableImageTypes=Primary%2CBackdrop%2CThumb&ImageTypeLimit=1&Recursive=true&Limit=50

A random Genre ID can be picked using:

var items = res.Items;
if (res.Items.length) {
    var randomGenre = res.Items[Math.floor(Math.random()*items.length)];
    randomGenre.Id // 51229
} else {
    // no genres to pick from
}

Use the random genre name and ID to add sections to the home screen:

Sorted Unwatched Science Fiction by Release (Latest Movies in Science Fiction)

/Items?IncludeItemTypes=Movie&Fields=BasicSyncInfo%2CCanDelete%2CCanDownload%2CPrimaryImageAspectRatio%2CProductionYear%2CStatus%2CEndDate&StartIndex=0&SortBy=ProductionYear%2CPremiereDate%2CSortName&SortOrder=Descending&ParentId=9&EnableImageTypes=Primary%2CBackdrop%2CThumb&ImageTypeLimit=1&Recursive=true&GenreIds=51229&Filters=IsUnplayed&Limit=50

Sorted Unwatched Science Fiction random (Unwatched Movies in Science Fiction)

/Items?IncludeItemTypes=Movie&Fields=BasicSyncInfo%2CCanDelete%2CCanDownload%2CPrimaryImageAspectRatio%2CProductionYear%2CStatus%2CEndDate&StartIndex=0&SortBy=Random&SortOrder=Ascending&ParentId=9&EnableImageTypes=Primary%2CBackdrop%2CThumb&ImageTypeLimit=1&Recursive=true&GenreIds=51229&Filters=IsUnplayed&RandomSeed=5315211&Limit=50

 

Edited July 8, 2025 by brothom
Formatting, making subject and solution more clear.

[brothom 177]

I've managed to add a new section to the homesections.js called "randommediabygenre".

This section first gets the collections and then outputs a slider section for each collection given a random genre id. 

I'm not sure if it's ok for me to add the section to this forum considering I had to unminify the source and manually set the first section to "always" be the new section.

[ebr 16169]

Hi, there's already an open request for this or something functionally equivalent. Please join in and contribute to the existing discussion at: