Tool to seperately generate previews for each episode in a TV-style section. In theory tthe scanner does this natively, but at least on my system it leaks gigs of memory over the course of a few hundred files and is therefore unusable for sections of any size.

pms/generate.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+BASE_URL="http://localhost:32400"
+
+IFS=$'\n'
+
+SECTION="${1}"
+if [ -z "${SECTION}" ] || [ $SECTION -lt 1 ] || [ $SECTION -gt 100 ]; then
+	echo "Usage: `basename "${0}"` section_number" 1>&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+SERIES="`curl --silent "${BASE_URL}/library/sections/${SECTION}/all" | \
+	grep 'key="/library/metadata/[0-9]*/children"' | \
+	sed 's%^.*key="\(/library/metadata/[0-9]*/children\)".*$%\1%'`"
+
+for i in $SERIES; do
+	SEASONS="`curl --silent "${BASE_URL}${i}" | \
+	grep 'key="/library/metadata/[0-9]*/children"' | \
+	sed 's%^.*key="\(/library/metadata/[0-9]*/children\)".*$%\1%'`"
+
+	for j in $SEASONS; do
+		EPISODES="`curl --silent "${BASE_URL}${j}" | \
+		grep '<Video ' | \
+		sed 's%^.*ratingKey="\([0-9]*\)".*$%\1%'`"
+
+		for k in $EPISODES; do
+			if [ -z "${k}" ] || [ $k -lt 100 ]; then
+				echo "Bad episode ID: ${k}" 1>&2
+				continue
+			fi
+			'/Applications/Zach/Media/Plex Media Server.app/Contents/MacOS/Plex Media Scanner' \
+				--generate --item "${k}"
+		done
+	done
+done
+
+exit 0