Get All TV Shows

A library, such as movies or TV shows, can contain many items. This API command will return all TV shows for a specific library that is available on the Plex server.

URL

GET http://{ip_address}:32400/library/sections/{id}/all?X-Plex-Token={plex_token}&includeGuids={include_guids}&limit={limit}&{filter}

Parameters

Return Status

Response

XML string value that lists the all the TV shows in the library. An example of the XML returned from the request is shown below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MediaContainer size="11" allowSync="1" art="/:/resources/show-fanart.jpg" identifier="com.plexapp.plugins.library" librarySectionID="4" librarySectionTitle="TV Shows" librarySectionUUID="3bbbe6f7-628f-4983-ae5d-7c05779c4c28" mediaTagPrefix="/system/bundle/media/flags/" mediaTagVersion="1641342384" nocache="1" thumb="/:/resources/show.png" title1="TV Shows" title2="All Shows" viewGroup="show" viewMode="65592">
    <Directory ratingKey="1161" key="/library/metadata/1161/children" guid="com.plexapp.agents.thetvdb://74205?lang=en" studio="HBO" type="show" title="Band of Brothers" contentRating="TV-MA" summary="The miniseries follows Easy Company, an army unit during World War II, from their initial training at Camp Toccoa to the conclusion of the war. The series is based on the book written by the late Stephen E. Ambrose. Band of Brothers is executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, the series won 6 Emmy Awards. " index="1" rating="9.5" viewCount="14" lastViewedAt="1468515134" year="2001" thumb="/library/metadata/1161/thumb/1487294876" art="/library/metadata/1161/art/1487294876" banner="/library/metadata/1161/banner/1487294876" theme="/library/metadata/1161/theme/1487294876" duration="3600000" originallyAvailableAt="2001-09-09" leafCount="10" viewedLeafCount="10" childCount="1" addedAt="1420683142" updatedAt="1487294876">
        <Genre tag="Action" />
        <Genre tag="Adventure" />
        <Role tag="Ron Livingston" />
        <Role tag="Damian Lewis" />
        <Role tag="Matthew Settle" />
    </Directory>
    ...
</MediaContainer>

The XML returned provides a list of the all TV shows in a library that are available on the Plex server. The root is the MediaContainer element. This element contains a few attributes that provide overall information about the TV shows on the server.

Within the MediaContainer there are one or more Directory child elements. Each Directory element represents one TV show series available on the Plex server.

Also within the Directory element there are multiple additional child elements that provide more details about the TV show. These child elements include Genre and Role.

Within each of these child elements is a single tag attribute that provides the information for the element. There could be multiple of the same child element within the Directory, as each TV show can be in multiple genres and list multiple actors.

If the include_guids parameter was specified with the value of 1, then there would be a Guid element for each online metadata service associated with the item.

Remarks

The limit can be used to specify the number of items to return in the response.

To reduce the number of items returned, you can filter the API response to only return items that meet a specific criteria.

For more information, check out the Filter page.

Examples

curl -X GET http://{ip_address}:32400/library/sections/{id}/all?X-Plex-Token={plex_token}

import requests
plex_url = http://{ip_address}:32400/library/sections/{id}/all?X-Plex-Token={plex_token}
response = requests.get(plex_url)
print(response.text)

$response = Invoke-RestMethod 'http://{ip_address}:32400/library/sections/{id}/all?X-Plex-Token={plex_token}' -Method 'GET'
Write-Output $response