Use PowerShell to Update your Plex Library with new content

This is a script that will allow you to update your Plex library via PowerShell.  It saves you having to go into Plex for Web to update libraries and can be used in conjunction with other scripts.

In order to use this script you will need to first get your Plex token. You can do this by doing the following:

1. Open Plex for Web and go to Movies

2. Select any movie and click on the three dots to take you to the context menu.

3. Select Get Info

4. Click View XML

5. Copy exverything from X-Plex-Token= to the end in the address bar

6. Insert this into the $Token field in the script

Once you run the script you will be offered a choice of which library you want to update.

$Token = ‘?X-Plex-Token=EuFbuGyDDnpHnZHhuV8B’
$Plex = ‘http://127.0.0.1:32400’

[xml]$Library = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri “$Plex/library/sections$Token”).Content

$LibraryItems = $Library.MediaContainer.Directory Write-Host “What do you want to refresh?”
$Counter = 0
foreach ($Element in $LibraryItems)
{
$Counter ++
$Title = $Element.Title
Write-Host “$Counter $Title”
}

$Selection = Read-Host
$Key = $library.MediaContainer.Directory[($Selection -1)].key

$DoRefresh = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri “$Plex/library/sections/$key/refresh$Token”
if ($DoRefresh.StatusCode -eq 200)
{
Write-Host “OK, refreshing library”
}
else
{
Write-Host “Ooops, something went wrong:nn$DoRefresh”
}

Alternatively you may just want to update a single library, in which case collect the ‘Key’ number for your library from the xml file mentioned above.  The below code just updates my Movies library.

$Token = ‘?X-Plex-Token=HbRpo18tDB364CaSkidhr’
$Plex = ‘http://127.0.0.1:32400’
$Key = 8
$DoRefresh = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri “$Plex/library/sections/$key/refresh$Token”

For more information on this see the Plex article.