Jellyfin GDrive

Overview

This script acts in place of inotify when using Google Drive and rclone as a backend for Jellyfin. It watches the Drive API and will trigger a library scan on changes

Notes

Currently only works when adding new files

Requires Python 3.6 or newer

Installation

1. Download repo
2. Install Python dependencies
   • pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Edit config.json
4. Follow step 1 of Google's getting started page
   • Save the credentials.json file inside the project directory
5. python scanner.py - to run the script

Configuration

• check_interval - minutes between GDrive scans
• api_key - Jellyfin API Key (Admin Dashboard -> Advanced -> API Keys)
• jellyfin_server - URL of the Jellyfin server (http://localhost:8096)
• retries - number of tries for Jellyfin api before giving up