chazlarson / plexannouncer

Plex Announcer

A Discord bot that sends updates about newly added Plex media to a Discord channel using webhooks.

Getting Started

To get started you first have to setup a webhook within your discord server / channel settings and copy the webhook url.

For more information about how you create webhooks and what they are check here.

Usage

Note that the container bust me accessible from your plex host. If you running both of them on the same server just enter localhost instead.

With Env Variables

Run the container and specify your PLEX_SERVER_URL, PLEX_WEBHOOK_TOKEN and DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL as environment variables:

docker run -p 32500:32500 -e PLEX_SERVER_URL="https://app.plex.tv/desktop#!/server/SERVER_ID" -e PLEX_WEBHOOK_TOKEN="SOME_RANDOM_TOKEN" -e DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL="https://discord.com/api/webhooks/WEBHOOK_ID/WEBHOOK_TOKEN" tenasi/plexannouncer:latest

With Config File

First create a config file somewhere and insert your plex server url, your Discord webhook url and some random token.

{
    "plex_server_url": "https://app.plex.tv/desktop#!/server/SERVERID",
    "plex_webhook_token": "RANDOM_TOKEN",
    "discord_webhook_url": "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/WEBHOOK_ID/WEBHOOK_TOKEN"
}

Then run the container and point to your config folder:

docker run -v /path/to/config/dir:/config -p 32500:32500 tenasi/plexannouncer:latest

Register the Webhook in Plex

Register the bot in Plex under Settings/Webhooks with the link being:

http://IP:PORT/RANDOM_TOKEN

Sources

• GitHub