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.
I am not actively maintaining this, so use at own risk, there may be bugs and the documentation and comments are lacking at best.
- 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.
To setup this 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 and enter
urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oobas the redirect url. You can leave Javascript
origins and the 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.
Personally, I run this script in a cronjob every two hours. On Mac this worked by adding the line:
0 */2 * * * cd ~/path/to/this/repo/ && ./plex_trakt_sync.sh
to the cronjobs after typing crontab -e in the terminal.
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:
- 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
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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
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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.