Goes through your plex library, and creates images for each item, using the configured poster, description, and colors from the poster. Looks like this:
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This is a small script you can use to turn a Plex collection into a series of images, which includes their poster and text description. I used this to make a deck of cards out of my collection, so that picking a movie can be a more fun process of "pick a random card".
It's really hacky since I made it in a weekend. I probably won't be improving this script any more, unless I make another deck of cards in the future - but I figured I'd put this up in case anyone wanted to use it.
Run npm install, and then npm start.
Before you run the command - you need to have a valid plex token and category id. When I wrote this program - I got those from snooping around the Plex web pages in devtools, but there's probably a better way. But this should work - go to the collection you want to export, open up DevTools, and paste this into the console:
alert("Token: " + document.body.getInnerHTML().match(/X-Plex-Token=(.*?)\"/)[1] + "\nCategory: " + location.href.match(/collections%2F(.*?)&/)[1])
I have no clue how reliable this is - probably not very - my apologies. Anyway, once you get your token and category, you're good to go. Execute like so:
node ./build/render.js --token=ab230124b --category=1234
And you'll see it generate a picture for each entry.
You can completely customize the card, it's just HTML & CSS. Just edit the template.html page.
There's a few other options you might want to know:
domain- which domain to use. Defaults to 127.0.0.1, but if you're not on the same machine as your server, you'll have to specifiy.port- defaults to 32400, but maybe yours is something else.width&height- defaults to 2000 by 1400.