Get All Movies for a Resolution

Plex can play movies in many different resolutions. If a library contains thousands of movies, it can be difficult to find movies that are available in a specific resolution. This API command will return a list of movies for a specified resolution that are available on the Plex server.

URL

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

Parameters

Return Status

Response

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

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MediaContainer size="140" allowSync="1" art="/:/resources/movie-fanart.jpg" identifier="com.plexapp.plugins.library" librarySectionID="2" librarySectionTitle="Movies" librarySectionUUID="493a64e7-b541-4667-b050-d702beebf2f6" mediaTagPrefix="/system/bundle/media/flags/" mediaTagVersion="1698877656" sortAsc="1" thumb="/:/resources/movie.png" title1="Movies" title2="1080" viewGroup="movie" viewMode="131624">
    <Video ratingKey="1416" key="/library/metadata/1416" guid="plex://movie/5d776d057a53e9001e74ed5d" studio="Dune Entertainment" type="movie" title="Avatar" titleSort="Avatar 01" contentRating="PG-13" summary="A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home." rating="8.1" audienceRating="8.2" viewCount="4" skipCount="1" lastViewedAt="1678244163" year="2009" tagline="Enter the world of Pandora." thumb="/library/metadata/1416/thumb/1701596598" art="/library/metadata/1416/art/1701596598" duration="9701779" originallyAvailableAt="2009-12-16" addedAt="1421027988" updatedAt="1701596598" audienceRatingImage="rottentomatoes://image.rating.upright" chapterSource="media" primaryExtraKey="/library/metadata/282482" ratingImage="rottentomatoes://image.rating.ripe">
        <Media id="71855" duration="9701779" bitrate="15378" width="1916" height="1078" aspectRatio="1.78" audioChannels="6" audioCodec="dca" videoCodec="h264" videoResolution="1080" container="mkv" videoFrameRate="24p" audioProfile="dts" videoProfile="high">
            <Part id="71980" key="/library/parts/71980/1449134841/file.mkv" duration="9701779" file="M:\Media\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009) [1080p h.264][AAC DTS DTS-HD].mkv" size="18649138726" audioProfile="dts" container="mkv" videoProfile="high" />
        </Media>
        <Genre tag="Action" />
        <Genre tag="Adventure" />
        <Country tag="United States of America" />
        <Country tag="United Kingdom" />
        <Director tag="James Cameron" />
        <Writer tag="James Cameron" />
        <Role tag="Sam Worthington" />
        <Role tag="Zoe Saldaña" />
        <Role tag="Stephen Lang" />
    </Video>
    ...
</MediaContainer>

The XML returned provides a list of the all movies in a library for the specified resolution 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 movies on the server.

Within the MediaContainer there are one or more Video child elements. Each Video element represents one movie available on the Plex server.

Within the Video there are one or more Media child elements. Each Media element represents one media file of the movie available on the Plex server.

If there are two media files associated with the movie, such as a 1080p and 480p version, then there would be two Media child elements in the Video element.

Within the Media there are one or more Part child elements. Each Part element represents one part of the movie. If the movie has been added to the Plex server as a multi-part movie, then each of those parts will be represented by one Part child element.

Also within the Video element there are multiple additional child elements that provide more details about the movie. These child elements include Genre, Director, Writer, Country, Collection, 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 Video, such as multiple directors or writers.

Remarks

Resolution

If you were to send a request to the Plex server without the resolution value, then a response with all the possible resolution values will be returned. The values returned will include all the available resolutions for the library.

The resolution value specified in the command are listed in the following table.The value column contains the value to use the command.

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}/resolution/{resolution}?X-Plex-Token={plex_token}

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

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