Plex-Discord-RPC

Use Discord RPC to display local Plex session data.

Background

I made this for me; it is really only handling my single use case (Linux environment and a Plex server on local network).

By all means, if someone wants to make this more generic I think they easily could. But, that's not in the scope for this little side project.

The only goal is to watch a show on Plex and have it update my Discord activity.

Approach

I just wanted to do something pretty straightforward, so here it is.

• Hit Plex Web API for list of active sessions on server
• Grab local IP and compare to session IP
• Gather session data for current media
• Update Discord activity/status via Discord RPC with media data
• Provide link to Anilist entry if session is watching entry from library 'Anime'

Dev Setup

• npm install
• rename config/secrets_template.js to config/secrets.js and configure (How do I get my Plex token?)
• npm run start

Run on Startup - Linux + PM2

• install dependencies sudo npm i pm2@latest -g
• setup app pm2 start src/plex_discord_rpc.js
• save app process pm2 save
• enable pm2 to start on boot pm2 startup
• view status pm2 list

Run on Startup - Lazy Windows Setup

• There are way better methods to do this, but I'm feeling particularly lazy today; I barely get on Windows anymore.
• Edit setup/Plex_Discord_RPC.bat to match current path of repository
• Create shortcut pointing to setup/Plex_Discord_RPC.bat
• Copy shortcut to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
• If the script fails its not going to start back up. That's another problem for another day.

References

• Discord RPC Documentation
• Unoffical Plex API Documentation
• Plex Icon
• Node.js with systemd