plex-playlister

Golang service to expose a Plex Playlist using the Plex API.

Usage

Important

Please remember to set the keyCacheSalt field in the config. Without this, a default random salt will be used and the checkbox state will not be accurately persisteded in local storage. Every service restart will result in a new salt and, thus, a new checkbox ID.

1. Copy config.json.template to config.json and populate with your specifics
2. Run with go run . to test your config locally

Build and Package

1. Build with ./scripts/build.sh
2. Package with ./scripts/package.sh

Deploy (general Linux distro)

1. Copy the package to your server (e.g. scp plex-playlister.tar.gz my-server:/opt/)

2. Connect to server (e.g. ssh my-server)

3. Change to the deploy directory (e.g. cd /opt)

4. Unpack the archive (e.g. tar xvf plex-playlister.tar.gz)

5. Create a systemd config (e.g. vi /etc/systemd/system/plex-playlister.service)

   # Make sure to enable this Unit so it comes up on reboot with
   # `systemctl enable plex-playlister`
   
   [Unit]
   Description=plex-playlister
   After=network.target
   
   [Service]
   User=www-data
   Environment=GO_ENV=production
   TimeoutStartSec=0
   WorkingDirectory=/opt/plex-playlister
   ExecStart=/opt/plex-playlister/plex-playlister
   Restart=always
   RestartSec=1
   
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target
   

6. Execute daemon reload (e.g. systemctl daemon-reload)

7. Start the plex-playlister service (e.g. systemctl start plex-playlister) and smoke test

8. Enable the plex-playlister service at boot (e.g. systemctl enable plex-playlister)

Dev Notes

• Quick Dev/Debug Template: Use python3 -m http.server 8080 and navigate to http://localhost:8080/templates/playlist.html to quickly iterate on the playlist template.

• Need to tweak go-plex-client? Commit change to https://github.com/derezzolution/go-plex-client. From this repo, pull the latest with go get -u github.com/derezzolution/go-plex-client@4db197a where 4db197a is the latest commit.