Plex-Trakt-Sync

This project adds a two-way-sync between trakt.tv and Plex Media Server. It requires a trakt.tv account but no Plex premium and no Trakt VIP subscriptions, unlike the Plex app provided by Trakt.

Features

• Media in Plex are added to Trakt collection
• Ratings are synced (if ratings differ, Trakt takes precedence)
• Watched status are synced (dates are not reported from Trakt to Plex)
• Liked lists in Trakt are downloaded and all movies in Plex belonging to that list are added
• You can edit the config file to choose what to sync
• None of the above requires a Plex Pass or Trakt VIP membership. Downside: Needs to be executed manually or via cronjob, can not use live data via webhooks.

Setup

The script is known to work with Python 3.6-3.9 versions.

To set up the script on your own machine, first clone or download this repo.

This should install the required Python packages:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Alternatively you can use pipenv:

pip3 install pipenv
pipenv run python main.py

To connect to Trakt you need to create a new API app:

• Visit https://trakt.tv/oauth/applications/new
• Give it a meaningful name
• Enter urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob as the redirect url
• You can leave Javascript origins and the Permissions checkboxes blank

Then, run python3 main.py.

At first run, you will be asked to setup Trakt and Plex access. Follow the instructions, your credentials and API keys will be stored in .env and .pytrakt.json files.

If you have 2 Factor Authentication enabled on Plex, you can append the code to your password.

You can take a look at the progress in the last_update.log file which will be created.

To set up to run this script in a cronjob every two hours, type crontab -e in the terminal.

0 */2 * * * cd ~/path/to/this/repo && ./plex_trakt_sync.sh

Sync settings

To disable parts of the functionality of this software, look no further than config.json. Here, in the sync section, you can disable the following things by setting them from true to false in a text editor:

At first run, the script will create config.json based on config.default.json. If you want to customize settings before first run (ex. you don't want full sync) you can copy and edit config.json before launching the script.

• Downloading liked lists from Trakt and adding them to Plex
• Downloading your watchlist from Trakt and adding it to Plex
• Syncing the watched status between Plex and Trakt
• Syncing the collected status between Plex and Trakt

Notes

• The first execution of the script will (depending on your PMS library size) take a long time. After that, movie details and Trakt lists are cached, so it should run a lot quicker the second time. This does mean, however, that Trakt lists are not updated dynamically (which is fine for lists like "2018 Academy Award Nominees" but might not be ideal for lists that are updated often). Here are the execution times on my Plex server: First run - 1228 seconds, second run - 111 seconds

• The PyTrakt API keys are not stored securely, so if you do not want to have a file containing those on your harddrive, you can not use this project.