serverAppConfigs/scripts/media-refresh-plex.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Trigger and poll ONE Plex library section — the step that makes a media move visible.
#
#   media-refresh-plex.sh trigger --library KEY
#   media-refresh-plex.sh status  --library KEY [--after EPOCH]
#
# One section only: refreshing all five costs a full walk of each and buys
# nothing for a rename that touched one tree. And a rename on the array is
# invisible until the section is rescanned — the server is bound at the SSD
# metadata view, so an array-side move is not an event its watcher ever sees.
#
# Two host realities shape this script:
#   * PMS's HTTPD closes without a single byte on a request that arrives from
#     another netns (the host and the 10.89.x.x container address both read as
#     "empty reply"), and it serves TLS to remote clients. So the request rides
#     plain http://127.0.0.1:32400 INSIDE the container, shipped in as a file —
#     a three-layer ssh/podman/sh quoting chain only produces parse errors.
#   * The token is `PlexOnlineToken` in the container's Preferences.xml (not
#     PlexHTTPToken, which a claimed server may not carry). It is read inside
#     the container and used from a curl config there: never argv (any process
#     on the host reads /proc/<pid>/cmdline), never a URL (proxies log URLs).
#
# Progress needs no token and no container: `section_locations.scanned_at` in
# the library database is the same epoch the API prints as `scannedAt`
# (verified 2026-11-04), so `status` reads the database and compares it against
# --after. `trigger` answering 000 means PMS is still warming — retry, never
# restart the service over it. Proof that a rename actually landed is
# scripts/media-verify.py replaying the journal; this script only moves the
# scanner along.
set -euo pipefail

CONTAINER=plex
URL="http://127.0.0.1:32400"
PREFS='/config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml'
DB="/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db"
SECTION=""
AFTER=""
TRIES=6
WARM_SLEEP=10

die() { echo "$*" >&2; exit 1; }

CMD="${1:-}"; shift || true
case "$CMD" in
    trigger|status) ;;
    *) die "usage: $(basename "$0") trigger|status --library KEY [--after EPOCH] [--container NAME] [--db PATH]" ;;
esac

while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
    case "$1" in
        --library)  SECTION="${2:-}"; shift 2 ;;
        --after)    AFTER="${2:-}"; shift 2 ;;
        --tries)    TRIES="${2:-}"; shift 2 ;;
        --warm-sleep) WARM_SLEEP="${2:-}"; shift 2 ;;
        --container) CONTAINER="${2:-}"; shift 2 ;;
        --url)      URL="${2:-}"; shift 2 ;;
        --prefs)    PREFS="${2:-}"; shift 2 ;;
        --db)       DB="${2:-}"; shift 2 ;;
        *) die "unknown argument: $1" ;;
    esac
done

[ -n "$SECTION" ] || die "--library is required (the section id from GET /library/sections; Movies is 1)"
command -v python3 >/dev/null || die "python3 is required to read the library database"

if [ "$CMD" = "status" ]; then
    [ -r "$DB" ] || die "no readable Plex library database at $DB"
    python3 - "$DB" "$SECTION" "$AFTER" <<'PY'
import datetime, sqlite3, sys

db, section, after = sys.argv[1], int(sys.argv[2]), sys.argv[3]
con = sqlite3.connect(f"file:{db}?mode=ro", uri=True)
rows = con.execute(
    "SELECT root_path, available, scanned_at FROM section_locations "
    "WHERE library_section_id = ? ORDER BY id", (section,)).fetchall()
if not rows:
    sys.exit(f"section {section} has no location in {db}; is the id right?")
worst = min(r[2] or 0 for r in rows)
for root, available, at in rows:
    iso = (datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(at, datetime.UTC).strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
           if at else "never")
    print(f"  available={available} scanned_at={iso} {root}")
print(f"section={section} scanned_at={worst}")
if after:
    if worst < int(after):
        sys.exit(f"section {section} was last scanned before {after}; a refresh is still owed")
PY
    exit 0
fi

command -v podman >/dev/null || die "podman is required to reach PMS inside its container"

INNER="$(mktemp -t pxscan.XXXXXX)"
trap 'rm -f "$INNER"' EXIT
cat > "$INNER" <<'EOS'
# Runs INSIDE the plex container: $1 section key, $2 base URL, $3 Preferences.xml.
key="$1"; url="$2"; prefs="$3"
[ -r "$prefs" ] || { echo "no readable $prefs inside the container" >&2; exit 3; }
T=$(sed -n 's/.*PlexOnlineToken="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' "$prefs" | head -1)
[ -n "$T" ] || { echo "no PlexOnlineToken in $prefs" >&2; exit 3; }
cfg=$(mktemp)
( umask 077
  { printf 'header = "X-Plex-Token: %s"\n' "$T"
    printf 'silent\nshow-error\nrequest = "POST"\n'
    printf 'url = "%s/library/sections/%s/refresh"\n' "$url" "$key"; } > "$cfg" )
code=$(curl -K "$cfg" -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' || true)
shred -u "$cfg" 2>/dev/null || rm -f "$cfg"
[ "$code" = "401" ] && { echo "section $key: HTTP 401 — the token in $prefs is not accepted" >&2; exit 4; }
echo "$code"
EOS

attempt=1
while :; do
    podman cp "$INNER" "$CONTAINER:/tmp/media-refresh-plex.sh" \
        || die "could not copy the runner into container $CONTAINER"
    code="$(podman exec "$CONTAINER" sh /tmp/media-refresh-plex.sh "$SECTION" "$URL" "$PREFS" || true)"
    podman exec "$CONTAINER" rm -f /tmp/media-refresh-plex.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
    case "$code" in
        204|200) echo "refresh accepted ($code) for section $SECTION"; exit 0 ;;
        000)
            [ "$attempt" -ge "$TRIES" ] && die "PMS never answered after $TRIES attempts (000); it may still be warming — do not restart the service over it"
            echo "section $SECTION: no answer yet ($attempt/$TRIES), PMS is warming" >&2 ;;
        *) die "refresh of section $SECTION failed: HTTP ${code:-curl-error}" ;;
    esac
    attempt=$((attempt + 1))
    sleep "$WARM_SLEEP"
done