This is the API client from Jellyfin Kodi extracted as a python package so that other users may use the API without maintaining a fork of the API client. Please note that this API client is not complete. You may have to add API calls to perform certain tasks. Please see Contributing below.

This client can be installed with pip3 install jellyfin-apiclient-python and imported with import jellyfin_apiclient_python.

from jellyfin_apiclient_python import JellyfinClient
client = JellyfinClient()

You need to set some configuration values before you can connect a server:

client.config.app('your_brilliant_app', '0.0.1', 'machine_name', 'unique_id')
client.config.data["auth.ssl"] = True

If you do not have a token, you will need to connect via username and password:

client.auth.connect_to_address('server_url')
client.auth.login('server_url', 'username', 'password')

You can then generate a token:

credentials = client.auth.credentials.get_credentials()
server = credentials["Servers"][0]
server["username"] = 'username'
json.dumps(server)

And if you wish then use that token to authenticate in future:

json.loads(credentials)
client.authenticate({"Servers": [credentials]}, discover=False)

You can also authenticate using an API key, which is generated on the server. This is different to a device AccessToken, and is set by not configuring a device name, or a device id:

client.config.data["app.name"] = 'your_brilliant_app'
client.config.data["app.version"] = '0.0.1'
client.authenticate({"Servers": [{"AccessToken: <API key here>, "address": <Server Address>}]}, discover=False)

The API is accessed via the jellyfin attribute of the client. Return values are a dictionary with 3 members, "Items", "TotalRecordCount" and "StartIndex"

The easiest way to fetch media objects is by calling search_media_items, like so:

client.jellyfin.search_media_items(
    term="And Now for Something Completely Different", media="Videos")

For details on what the individual API calls do or how to do a certain task, you will probably find the Jellyfin MPV Shim and Jellyfin Kodi repositories useful.

The test suite is run via tox, and you can install it from PyPi.

• To run the linter: tox -elint
• To run the test suite, for Python 3.9: tox -epy39
• You can run multiple environments, if you wish: tox -elint,py311

• Removal of websocket.py (now a dependency to websocket_client).
• Removal of dependencies on helper (from Jellyfin Kodi) and kodi_six.
• Add has_attribute directly to __init__.py.
• Add API calls:
  • get_season for fetching season metadata.
  • get_audio_stream to read an audio stream into a file
  • search_media_items to search for media items
  • audio_url to return the URL to an audio file
• Add parameters aid=None, sid=None, start_time_ticks=None, is_playback=True to API call get_play_info.
• Add timesync manager and SyncPlay API methods.
• Remove usage of six module.
• Add group of remote_ API calls to remote control another session
• Configurable item refreshes allowing custom refresh logic (can also iterate through a list of items)
• Add support for authenticating via an API key

When contributing, please maintain backward compatibility with existing calls in the API. Adding parameters is fine, but please make sure that they have default options to prevent existing software from breaking. Please also add your changes to the Changes from Jellyfin Kodi section.

If you would like to produce documentation for this API, I would also be interested in accepting pull requests for documentation.