Is there a way to disable the Download permission for all users at once?

[Juanrendon 4]

Hi everyone,

I have an Emby server where I created some users, and I initially gave all of them permission to download media.

Now I would like to disable the Download permission for all users.

At the moment, it seems that I have to go into each user individually and disable the download permission manually.

Is there any way to:

• Select multiple users or all users and disable the Download permission in bulk?
• Use an Emby API, script, or another method to change this permission for all existing users at once?

I would simply like to avoid having to edit each user individually.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Luke 42816]

Hi, there is no way to do this with multi select but bulk edit features are planned for future updates. Thanks.

[Lessaj 537]

I have not verified this and this is just high level approach but you can use the GET /Users/Prefixes endpoint to get a list of users and then you can loop over POST /Users/{Id}/Policy endpoint with a body of {EnableContentDownloading: false}. Again, high level, play with it to get the exact request body you need, test with a dummy user first.

Edited 53 minutes ago by Lessaj