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Add an actor to a movie/video with role and thumb #462
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So far I have created a little script to add an specific actor to a search result:
from plexapi.server import PlexServer
PLEX_URL = 'http://192.168.178.100:32400'
PLEX_TOKEN = 'token'
homeserver = PlexServer(PLEX_URL, PLEX_TOKEN)
tag = input(f"Actor: ")
for video in homeserver.library.section('test').search(None, collection=[tag]):
video._edit_tags(tag="actor", items=[tag])
It work's fine. An actor appears on that particular video(s) in the collection.
Now, I just don't want to add the actor, I also want to add the role and a thumb (photo URL), but so far I could not find anything in the documentation and in the source code. (might be it's quite late and I am tired), but I would be thankful if someone could help me with it or make it possible.
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blacktwin commentedon Apr 22, 2020
You and me both. Creating an actor also creates the actor in the DB where I assume you could add the missing thumb and role but I haven't tried that yet. I'd prefer to do it all with API commands.
blacktwin commentedon Apr 23, 2020
@JonnyWong16 found how to add a thumb.
Still trying to find role.
JonnyWong16 commentedon Apr 23, 2020
Found it.
blacktwin commentedon Apr 23, 2020
Need a addActor or add additional kwargs if it already exists.
Hellowlol commentedon Apr 23, 2020
Imo we should support objects. So Role.create() and allow that to be passed to edit that serialize this to a url.
blacktwin commentedon Apr 23, 2020
Agreed.
JonnyWong16 commentedon Apr 23, 2020
While you're at it, there's a bug if you use
_edit_tags(). Somewhere in the code when retrieving a movie, it only retrieves the first 3 actors. Therefore, when you use_edit_tags(), thetag_helper()inserts the new actor into position 4.Hellowlol commentedon Apr 23, 2020
It only retrieves 3 as this only what re xml includes. If we want more the user has to movie.reload() is the fourth item overwritten?
JonnyWong16 commentedon Apr 23, 2020
From my tests it looks like it's inserted and not overwritten. Needs more testing though.
blacktwin commentedon Jun 5, 2020
@Hellowlol I don't think we can use the
Roleclass to create or edit a role/actor. The actor is tied to aVideoobject and in order to create one we need to use aVideo. I'm thinking of adding the method to add or edit an actor in theVideoclass.Some findings in case they are relevant:
Actor's thumb follows the name of the actor across libraries and videos.
The role is attached to the video.
Actors are not linked across libraries, at least in the WebUI but
plex.search('Bob Odenkirk')works :)blacktwin commentedon Jun 18, 2020
Refreshing an item removes all added actors from the item. This makes sense for known movies and shows where metadata is available as refreshing wipes the previous metadata values and updates. However, for Home Videos adding an actor named
Momwould be pretty cool but if the library get refreshed all your custom actors are lost.Hellowlol commentedon Jun 18, 2020
It shouldn’t be deleted as long as the item is locked.
blacktwin commentedon Jun 18, 2020
Locked attribute doesn't exist for the tag/field and adding the usual locked str doesn't make a difference. I've created a Plex Feature Request. But I'm not sure that we are really supposed to be allowed to edit actors like this.
blacktwin commentedon Jun 19, 2020
With
actor[0]and usingindex=foractor[index]has been very inconsistent. Typically any new actor created or any existing actor that is edited (add or change role, thumb, or justindex) moves the actor to the beginning of cast list. However I've observed several times where changing theindexvalue to-1,1, or2when creating or just updating theindexvalue for an existing actor will cause them to move forward or backward in the listings. This has been somewhat random.