plexpy/docs/sdks/status

Status

(status)

Overview

The status endpoints give you information about current playbacks, play history, and even terminating sessions.

Available Operations

• list_sessions - List Sessions
• get_background_tasks - Get background tasks
• list_playback_history - List Playback History
• terminate_session - Terminate a session
• delete_history - Delete Single History Item
• get_history_item - Get Single History Item

list_sessions

List all current playbacks on this server

Example Usage

from plex_api_client import PlexAPI


with PlexAPI(
    token="<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>",
) as plex_api:

    res = plex_api.status.list_sessions()

    assert res.object is not None

    # Handle response
    print(res.object)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
retries	Optional[utils.RetryConfig]	➖	Configuration to override the default retry behavior of the client.

Response

operations.ListSessionsResponse

Errors

Error Type	Status Code	Content Type
errors.SDKError	4XX, 5XX	*/*

get_background_tasks

Get the list of all background tasks

Example Usage

from plex_api_client import PlexAPI


with PlexAPI(
    token="<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>",
) as plex_api:

    res = plex_api.status.get_background_tasks()

    assert res.object is not None

    # Handle response
    print(res.object)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
retries	Optional[utils.RetryConfig]	➖	Configuration to override the default retry behavior of the client.

Response

operations.GetBackgroundTasksResponse

Errors

Error Type	Status Code	Content Type
errors.SDKError	4XX, 5XX	*/*

list_playback_history

List all playback history (Admin can see all users, others can only see their own). Pagination should be used on this endpoint. Additionally this endpoint supports includeFields, excludeFields, includeElements, and excludeElements parameters.

Example Usage

from plex_api_client import PlexAPI
from plex_api_client.models import components


with PlexAPI(
    accepts=components.Accepts.APPLICATION_XML,
    client_identifier="abc123",
    product="Plex for Roku",
    version="2.4.1",
    platform="Roku",
    platform_version="4.3 build 1057",
    device="Roku 3",
    model="4200X",
    device_vendor="Roku",
    device_name="Living Room TV",
    marketplace="googlePlay",
    token="<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>",
) as plex_api:

    res = plex_api.status.list_playback_history(request={
        "sort": [
            "v",
            "i",
            "e",
            "w",
            "e",
            "d",
            "A",
            "t",
            ":",
            "d",
            "e",
            "s",
            "c",
            ",",
            "a",
            "c",
            "c",
            "o",
            "u",
            "n",
            "t",
            "I",
            "D",
        ],
    })

    assert res.object is not None

    # Handle response
    print(res.object)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
request	operations.ListPlaybackHistoryRequest	✔️	The request object to use for the request.
retries	Optional[utils.RetryConfig]	➖	Configuration to override the default retry behavior of the client.

Response

operations.ListPlaybackHistoryResponse

Errors

Error Type	Status Code	Content Type
errors.SDKError	4XX, 5XX	*/*

terminate_session

Terminate a playback session kicking off the user

Example Usage

from plex_api_client import PlexAPI
from plex_api_client.models import components


with PlexAPI(
    accepts=components.Accepts.APPLICATION_XML,
    client_identifier="abc123",
    product="Plex for Roku",
    version="2.4.1",
    platform="Roku",
    platform_version="4.3 build 1057",
    device="Roku 3",
    model="4200X",
    device_vendor="Roku",
    device_name="Living Room TV",
    marketplace="googlePlay",
    token="<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>",
) as plex_api:

    res = plex_api.status.terminate_session(request={
        "session_id": "cdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz",
        "reason": "Stop Playing",
    })

    assert res is not None

    # Handle response
    print(res)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
request	operations.TerminateSessionRequest	✔️	The request object to use for the request.
retries	Optional[utils.RetryConfig]	➖	Configuration to override the default retry behavior of the client.

Response

operations.TerminateSessionResponse

Errors

Error Type	Status Code	Content Type
errors.SDKError	4XX, 5XX	*/*

delete_history

Delete a single history item by id

Example Usage

from plex_api_client import PlexAPI
from plex_api_client.models import components


with PlexAPI(
    accepts=components.Accepts.APPLICATION_XML,
    client_identifier="abc123",
    product="Plex for Roku",
    version="2.4.1",
    platform="Roku",
    platform_version="4.3 build 1057",
    device="Roku 3",
    model="4200X",
    device_vendor="Roku",
    device_name="Living Room TV",
    marketplace="googlePlay",
    token="<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>",
) as plex_api:

    res = plex_api.status.delete_history(request={
        "history_id": 953579,
    })

    assert res.media_container is not None

    # Handle response
    print(res.media_container)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
request	operations.DeleteHistoryRequest	✔️	The request object to use for the request.
retries	Optional[utils.RetryConfig]	➖	Configuration to override the default retry behavior of the client.

Response

operations.DeleteHistoryResponse

Errors

Error Type	Status Code	Content Type
errors.SDKError	4XX, 5XX	*/*

get_history_item

Get a single history item by id

Example Usage

from plex_api_client import PlexAPI
from plex_api_client.models import components


with PlexAPI(
    accepts=components.Accepts.APPLICATION_XML,
    client_identifier="abc123",
    product="Plex for Roku",
    version="2.4.1",
    platform="Roku",
    platform_version="4.3 build 1057",
    device="Roku 3",
    model="4200X",
    device_vendor="Roku",
    device_name="Living Room TV",
    marketplace="googlePlay",
    token="<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>",
) as plex_api:

    res = plex_api.status.get_history_item(request={
        "history_id": 832213,
    })

    assert res.history_all_get_responses_200 is not None

    # Handle response
    print(res.history_all_get_responses_200)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
request	operations.GetHistoryItemRequest	✔️	The request object to use for the request.
retries	Optional[utils.RetryConfig]	➖	Configuration to override the default retry behavior of the client.

Response

operations.GetHistoryItemResponse

Errors

Error Type	Status Code	Content Type
errors.SDKError	4XX, 5XX	*/*