Manage downloads, media files and libraries for Plex Media Server through a REST API
Netpips is a companion server app for Plex Media Server. It's main goal is to enable users to collaboratively download content (TV Shows, Movies, etc) to the Plex library folders while keeping them organized.
Netpips is Web API project running on ASP.NET Core 2.1.
- Clone the repo
- Execute the following commands
cd Netpips
dotnet restore
dotnet build
dotnet run- Head to http://localhost:5000/api/swagger for the full API documentation
Netpips supports two types of download methods:
- Direct Download Link (DDL). e.g uptobox.com, rapidgator.com
- Peer to peer (P2P). e.g magnet links, torrent urls
However, these two types of download run the same workflow
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Once a download runs to completion, a job will be triggered to extract (if .rar or .zip), rename and move "smartly" all of the downloaded files to their assumed media folder, in order to facilitate Plex's Naming Convention. e.g The.Big.Bang.Theory.S11E23.HDTV.x264-SVA[eztv].mkv would be renamed and moved to: TV Shows / Suits / Season 07 / Suits - S07E16 - GoodBye.mkv
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After renaming, if the downloaded file is a TV Show or a Movie, matching english subtitles will be fetched
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Once all files of a given download have been renamed and moved, a notification email containing the summary of the download will be sent to the user who started the download
The server should have installed the following CLI dependecies
- filebot (to fetch subtitles and rename episodes)
- aria2c (to generate torrent files based magnet links)
- transmission-remote (to interface P2P torrent download)
- mediainfo (to compute video file duration, should filebot fail to do so)
The server on which Netpips.Server is installed should have a netpips user with the following directories
downloads/
logs/
medialibrary/
Movies/
TV Shows/
Podcasts/
Music/
.torrent_done.sh
.torrent_done.sh:
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
TR_TORRENT_HASH=$1
fi
curl "http://localhost:5000/api/torrentDone/$TR_TORRENT_HASH"