A script to let you play things from a given plex host using a token from your environment

plexbrowse.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# python3 plexbrowse.py | while read p; do mpv "$p"; done
# use --host to set the hostname of the server to access
# set PLEX_TOKEN in your environment with your X-Plex-Token
import requests
from os import environ
from os.path import basename
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from sys import stderr

token = environ["PLEX_TOKEN"]

def get(*args, **kwargs):
    if "params" not in kwargs:
        kwargs["params"] = {}
    kwargs["params"]["X-Plex-Token"] = token
    return requests.get(*args, **kwargs)

def parse(xml):
    return ET.fromstring(xml)

def get_plex(host, path):
    return parse(get(f"https://{host}{path}").content)

def pick_item(items, title=lambda i: i.attrib["title"]):
    print("\n".join("{} {}".format(n, title(i)) for n, i in enumerate(items)), file=stderr)
    print("> ", end="", file=stderr)
    selected = int(input())
    if len(items) < selected:
        return False
    return items[selected]

def main():
    from argparse import ArgumentParser
    parser = ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("--host", default="plex.wa.alyssasmith.id.au")
    args = parser.parse_args()
    section = pick_item(get_plex(args.host, "/library/sections").findall("Directory"))
    item = pick_item(get_plex(args.host, f"/library/sections/{section.attrib['key']}/all").findall("Directory"))
    videos = get_plex(args.host, item.attrib["key"].replace("children", "allLeaves")).findall("Video")
    medias = []
    for v in videos:
        medias += v.findall("Media")
    parts = {}
    for m in medias:
        for p in m.findall("Part"):
            parts[basename(p.attrib["file"])] = p.attrib["key"]
    filenames = list(parts.keys())
    selected = parts[pick_item(filenames, title=lambda i: i)]
    print(f"https://{args.host}{selected}?X-Plex-Token={token}")
    return 0

if __name__ == "__main__":
    from sys import exit
    try:
        exit(main())
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        exit(255)