Possible issue with New Plex Scanner and PlexAPI?

[josephmoyer]

Tried to run it, but got an error that from my googling of stuff when trying to play around with the PlexAPI, seems to be down for everyone.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/home/joe/plex2letterboxd/plex2letterboxd/__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
    plex2letterboxd.main()
  File "/home/joe/plex2letterboxd/plex2letterboxd/plex2letterboxd.py", line 61, in main
    write_csv(sections, args.output)
  File "/home/joe/plex2letterboxd/plex2letterboxd/plex2letterboxd.py", line 44, in write_csv
    for movie in section.search(sort='lastViewedAt', unwatched=False):
  File "/home/joe/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/plexapi/library.py", line 669, in search
    args[category] = self._cleanSearchFilter(category, value, libtype)
  File "/home/joe/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/plexapi/library.py", line 717, in _cleanSearchFilter
    raise BadRequest('Unknown filter category: %s' % category)
plexapi.exceptions.BadRequest: Unknown filter category: unwatched

Like I'm pretty sure that filter category should be there, but my Movie library is using the newer scanner, so I think it's not gonna work.

[mtimkovich]

Thanks for the stack trace, I'll look into it.

[mtimkovich]

I'm going to update this to work with the latest API, but as a temporary workaround, you can change:

plex2letterboxd/setup.py

Line 15 in 4cce42d

install_requires=['plexapi'],

to:

install_requires=['plexapi==4.2.0']

to use the compatible API version. I haven't tested this, though, so I'm working under the assumption nothing's changed on Plex's end.

[josephmoyer]

Still bad. I already had plexapi at 4.2.0.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/home/joe/plex2letterboxd/plex2letterboxd/__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
    plex2letterboxd.main()
  File "/home/joe/plex2letterboxd/plex2letterboxd/plex2letterboxd.py", line 61, in main
    write_csv(sections, args.output)
  File "/home/joe/plex2letterboxd/plex2letterboxd/plex2letterboxd.py", line 44, in write_csv
    for movie in section.search(sort='lastViewedAt', unwatched=False):
  File "/home/joe/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/plexapi/library.py", line 669, in search
    args[category] = self._cleanSearchFilter(category, value, libtype)
  File "/home/joe/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/plexapi/library.py", line 717, in _cleanSearchFilter
    raise BadRequest('Unknown filter category: %s' % category)
plexapi.exceptions.BadRequest: Unknown filter category: unwatched

[josephmoyer]

I think I got it to work.

Found this issue over in the plexapi repo, apparently, new server changes broke a lot of stuff. Upgraded my plexapi install to 5.2.0, and plex2letterboxd worked.

[mtimkovich]

thanks for fixing the problem for me! ❤️