plexpy/API.md

API Reference

The API is still pretty new and needs some serious cleaning up on the backend but should be reasonably functional. There are no error codes yet.

General structure

The API endpoint is http://ip:port + HTTP_ROOT + /api?apikey=$apikey&cmd=$command

Data response in JSON formatted.

API methods

getLogs

Not working yet

getVersion

Returns some version information: git_path, install_type, current_version, installed_version, commits_behind

checkGithub

Updates the version information above and returns getVersion data

shutdown

Shut down plexpy

restart

Restart plexpy

update

Update plexpy - you may want to check the install type in get version and not allow this if type==exe