Linking Emby media objects to other users on same server

[godfuture 5]

User A and user B are both accounts on the same emby server. User A has found a very interesting album or a very interesting artist and wants to share a link with user B to directly access those interesting items.

 

Where do I find these links? If they do not exist, is it much effort to expose them?

 

Thanks a lot!

[Luke 42093]

Hi, we don't have this feature, although it's not a bad idea for the future. Thanks.

[TeamB 2438]

How can a web app not have this "feature", this is one of the fundamental design consideration when building a web app.

It has always bugged me that this was not possible.

The web client routing should be able to do this.

[Luke 42093]

It isn't just routing, there's also authentication to consider, whether the links are permanent or temporary or if they can be removed after being shared. And if even of those are yes then that means we need a database for them. Why it's not done is simply because we haven't seen high demand for it relative to the other things users want.

[crusher11 1102]

It's not a cloud storage service or anything like that so there wouldn't be any need for temporary links or removal of access at the link level, as you wouldn't be linking to anything the user couldn't already access.

[TeamB 2438]

It isn't just routing, there's also authentication to consider, whether the links are permanent or temporary or if they can be removed after being shared. And if even of those are yes then that means we need a database for them. Why it's not done is simply because we haven't seen high demand for it relative to the other things users want.

This is not really what the OP was talking about, you are referring to temporary links you can share, that is not what the OP was asking for, he just wants a link he can send to another user of the same server a link they can share.

 

Or to make the ask even simpler, bookmarking a page to come back to.

 

This almost works.

 

If I use the following link

 

http://192.168.0.16:8096/web/index.html#!/item/item.html?id=27447

 

in a brand new tab with a browser I have logged into before (the browser has an authenticated user session) then it does work.

however if I try to use it on any open Emby page its like the page routing consumes the path and navigation does not occur.

 

Also if the browser is not logged in then it goes to the select user page and then once you are logged in goes to the root. If the auth request was for an page you should be returned to that page once you have authed, this is just basic web app auth stuff.

[Luke 42093]

 

 If the auth request was for an page you should be returned to that page once you have authed, this is just basic web app auth stuff.

 

 

Yes I agree that's something we should have in place. That can be looked at.

[godfuture 5]

On 12/20/2019 at 8:57 PM, crusher11 said:

It's not a cloud storage service or anything like that so there wouldn't be any need for temporary links or removal of access at the link level, as you wouldn't be linking to anything the user couldn't already access.

Exactly. My first idea was to display a permanent link of every item on the server. You can then send the link to other users of the server. The user auth and access restriction which is already in place would be just fine to protect these links.