Scraps the Plex sessions page to display the current playing movie or TV show poster on a screen.
Disclaimer – I am a network engineer not a programmer. I play around with code. I am publishing this to give back to the communities that has helped me learn. There maybe better ways of scraping the Plex Posters, but this is the way I chose to do it. I am open to suggestions. Use at your own risk.
I decided to rewrite the program in PHP and make it browser based. This allows me to have the Raspberry Pi boot to the desktop, automatically start a browser in kiosk mode, and open the PHP site.
This script scraps http://:32400/status/sessions for clients and displays the poster of the currently playing movie or TV show. If nothing is currently playing it will pull a random poster of an unwatched movie.
- A functioning Plex Server
- Web Server – I am running NGINX
- PHP – I am running version 5.6.22
- Your X-Plex-Token. https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/204059436-Finding-your-account-token-X-Plex-Token
- Custom Text on top and bottom of posters.
- Cache posters locally.
- Copy all the files into the root of your web server.
- Fix permission on cache folder (chmod 777 cache)
- Edit the config.php file.
- Open the URL to your server in a broswer.
- Delete all files in the cache directory.