Gets plex streaming urls. Pipe into cast.py (https://gist.github.com/blha303/8b100c205b8c35b3c8ce) for best results. List episodes and movies from plex by omitting titles (i.e getplex.py -m "" or getplex.py -s "Bla")

getplex.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
# Now with Plex auth support! Check getplex.py -h
from __future__ import print_function
from plexapi.server import PlexServer
from plexapi.myplex import MyPlexUser
from plexapi.exceptions import NotFound

from urlparse import urlparse
from getpass import getpass
from socket import gethostbyname

import sys
import argparse

DEFAULT_URI = "http://192.168.1.50:32400"

def fmtcols(l):
    maxlen = max(len(i) for i in l)
    if len(l) % 2 != 0:
        l.append(" ")
    split = len(l)/2
    l1 = l[0:split]
    l2 = l[split:]
    o = []
    for key, value in zip(l1,l2):
        o.append(u"{0:<{2}s} {1}".format(key, value, maxlen))
    return u"\n".join(o)

def info(*objs):
    print(*objs, file=sys.stderr)

def prompt(*objs):
    old_stdout = sys.stdout
    try:
        sys.stdout = sys.stderr
        return raw_input(*objs)
    finally:
        sys.stdout = old_stdout

def get_server(uri=DEFAULT_URI, username=None, password=None, servername=None):
    try:
        return PlexServer(uri)
    except NotFound:
        pass
    if not username and not password:
        info("Could not get server object, maybe you need to be authenticated?")
    username = prompt("Username: ") if not username else username
    password = getpass() if not password else password
    user = MyPlexUser.signin(username, password)
    if not servername:
        info("Servers: " + ", ".join(a.name for a in user.resources()))
        servername = prompt("Please enter server name. If you don't know it, press enter and I'll (very slowly!) search for the correct server: ") or None
    if servername:
        return user.getResource(servername).connect()
    else:
        info("OK, beginning the search process.")
    # necessary to match correct server
    if uri.count(":") >= 2:
        ip = ":".join(urlparse(uri).netloc.split(":")[:-1])
    else:
        ip = urlparse(uri).netloc
    info("Getting IP for {}".format(ip))
    ip = gethostbyname(ip)
    info("Got IP from hostname: {}".format(ip) if ip not in uri else "Searching for {}".format(ip))
    for srv in user.resources():
        try:
            server = srv.connect()
            if ip in server.baseuri:
                info("Found server: {}".format(srv.name))
                return server
        except NotFound:
            info("Couldn't connect to {}".format(srv.name))
    info("Couldn't find server in your user's server list.")
    return None

def lookup_movie(server, movie):
    return server.library.section("Movies").get(movie)

def lookup_episode(server, show, episode):
    return server.library.section("TV Shows").get(show).episode(episode)

def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
    group.add_argument("-m", "--movie", help="Specify movie. Must be exact title.")
    group.add_argument("-s", "--show", help="Specify show. Must be exact title.")
    parser.add_argument("-e", "--episode", help="Specify episode. Get list of episodes by specifying show")
    parser.add_argument("-S", "--server", help="Specify server. Defaults to {}".format(DEFAULT_URI), default=DEFAULT_URI)
    parser.add_argument("-u", "--username", help="Specify username. Used for Plex authentication")
    parser.add_argument("-p", "--password", help="Specify password. Provided for convenience only, preferred method is to omit this and enter password at the prompt.")
    parser.add_argument("--servername", help="Specify server name. Used with -u above, for Plex authentication.")
    args = parser.parse_args()
    server = get_server(args.server, username=args.username, password=args.password, servername=args.servername)
    if not server:
        info("Aborting.")
        return
    if args.movie is not None:
        if args.movie is "":
            print(fmtcols([u"{}".format(movie.title) for movie in server.library.section("Movies").all()]))
        else:
            print(lookup_movie(server, args.movie).getStreamUrl())
    elif args.show is not None:
        if args.show is "":
            print(fmtcols([u"{}".format(show.title) for show in server.library.section("TV Shows").all()]))
        else:
            if args.episode:
                print(lookup_episode(server, args.show, args.episode).getStreamUrl())
            else:
                print(fmtcols([u"S{}E{} {}".format(ep.parentIndex.zfill(2), ep.index.zfill(2), ep.title) for ep in server.library.section("TV Shows").get(args.show).episodes()]))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()