pjnes / cmcucp

The Complete Marvel Cinematic Universe Chronological Playlist

CMCUCP: The Complete Marvel Cinematic Universe Chronological Playlist

This is a simple script that generates a Plex playlist with everything in your library from the MCU, in chronological order (according to this page).

Fun fact: This is about 17 days of continuous video.

I've created a web based version of this, that provides chonological playlists for the MCU, as well as Star Wars, Doctor Who, Star Trek and others.

You should check out Chronoplex, it does a prettier MCU chronological playlist

The new fancy docker way

• docker run --rm ghcr.io/pjnes/cmcucp PLEX_USER PLEX_PASS PLEX_SERVER [PLEX_PLAYLIST]

The old manual way

Requirements

• Python 3.
• PIP.
• A Plex server somewhere.
• An unhealthily large collection of Marvel videos.

Setup

• Clone this repo somewhere. Anywhere. Use your imagination.
• Install the dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt.

Usage

• Just run python cmcucp.py PLEX_USER PLEX_PASS PLEX_SERVER [PLEX_PLAYLIST].
• Wait.
• It will create a new playlist in your Plex library and report any items it couldn't find.

cmcucp's Issues

Can't find/match exisiting items

Hi,
first thanks a lot for this script. It saves a lot of work! I just tried and noticed there is a small issue. For some of the existing items in my library it can't find/match them and add them to the playlist. I guess it' because the items are searched by their titles and as I use their localized names they don't match with the configured ones inside the script. One example is that the name in the script is The Avengers and in my library it's Marvel's The Avengers. I suggest to rather use more general/universal identifiers like their original title or rather their db ids like from imdb or tvdb. I'll see if I can open a PR for that but would be helpful to see this fixed in the near future

Can't add "Marvel's Cloak & Dagger" but it's in the library

Hello i have the issue, that he isn't adding Marvel's Cloak & Dagger to the playlist.
But it's in the library.
it's assigned correctly and i can wath the show on plex.

Can you help to fix this?

Some series titles are not prepended with “Marvel’s”

After pull request #11 when the library’s are found and things are actually being added I spotted another peculiar issue concerning the tv shows matching. I don’t know if this is a localization problem in my Plex metadata (Swedish library with original titles always) or if it’s something else but the titles of newer shows like Falcon and WandaVision are not prepended with “Marvel’s” in my library and therefore they are not matched by the script. Shows like The Defenders and Agents of SHIELD are however prepended with Marvel’s and are added as expected. I tried a lazy fix and commented out the renaming on line 40 (show = "Marvel's %(show)s" % {'show': show}) and that actually worked, all four shows being matched and added. Now, I don’t know if there’s a specific reason to prepend Marvel’s to all the titles, maybe some shows get mixed up in the matching with other, non marvel series or something. If that’s the case maybe an acceptable solution could be to try match “Marvel’s %(show)s” first and if that fails attempt to match only “show” before throwing the no match error.

Edit:
If this is a localization problem it was an extremely easy fix to just add Marvel’s to the titles manually in the Plex library. Then the docker way of doing this works beautifully.

Shang Chi

Could you add Shang Chi?

Library scan fails on foreign server

Thanks for an awesome little script! I have a suggestion, hope it’s fine that I post it here as it’s also a solution to a problem for all us non English speaking fans.
It would be great if the library section names could be passed as argument to support media servers running other languages than English. Easy to fix locally just swapping Movies for, let’s say Filmer which is the Swedish name of that section in the py file, but it would be amazing if this was passed as arguments so that one could always just run the most up to date docker image when adding content to the library. Keep up the good work!