add a function to parse results of api '/status/sessions/history/all' about python-plexapi HOT 15 CLOSED

You can do what with requests already just set the content type header to application/json and use r.json()

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@Hellowlol - OMG, I have been hating using the XML view of the PlexAPI!

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Srsly? Lol. I just figured you used it since you like it better.

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I wish, I started this project about a year and a half ago and documentation was super sparse then (not there there is a ton of documentation now). Anyway, if this works I'll totally update this to use JSON everywhere, it's 1000x easier to work with.

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It doesn't seem to be working for me.

import requests
from plexapi.server import PlexServer

plex = PlexServer('http://HOST:32400', 'TOKEN')
url = plex.url('/status/sessions/history/all')
headers = plex.headers()
headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text[:1000])  # should show a json string?

Shouldn't I expect a json string to be printed there?

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Dunno how long it has worked but ive been using json since 15 Jan 2014. (It was broken but some dude made a repair function)

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Sec, i have never tested that url, i have only used the other ones, i just figured it worked since every other i have tried has worked.

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Ah, sorry it was 'Accept': 'application/json' not the content type

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Awesome, thanks!

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Im happy to help, its the least i can do. The api is beautiful :)

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commit 80529a2
Author: Michael Shepanski [email protected]
Date: Thu Apr 7 01:39:04 2016 -0400
Rename MyPlexUser to MyPlexAccount; Add support for real MyPlexUsers; Add api for history; New tests for sessions() and history()

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Any plans to add to add any query regarding the history?

@mratsamy if you want some simple watched stats you can find a simple script here: https://gist.github.com/Hellowlol/0047e27e2e17593b48ab708312956b71

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I think that is slightly out of scope of what I wanted this package to do. Essentially I want to provide the ability to read and navigate what Plex is providing in their xml docs, but leave the 'build cool stuff on top of it' to everyone else. It's definetly worth an example or two though.

commit 81e2214
Author: Michael Shepanski [email protected]
Date: Thu Apr 7 22:48:45 2016 -0400
Get examples working again; Add new examples most_streamed_titles and most_active_users

As a side note. Do you know if we have any filter options on the history? This history takes quite a while to load on my system with something like 10000+ items from all this testing. 😮

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Ok. Im afraid not. 10000? Shit my history only had like 4k ish. It seems that grabbing the history from plex is the slowest, not the parsing.

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how come i dont get json when i do this

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