Actors Index — Browse your entire cast library at a glance

[cocomeros]

Hey everyone! I'd like to share a plugin I've been building for my own Jellyfin setup that I think many of you will find useful.

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### What is Actors Index?

**Actors Index** builds a beautiful, browsable grid of every actor and actress in your Jellyfin library — with their photo, name, and how many titles they appear in. Think of it as a "people browser" that lives right inside Jellyfin.

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### Features

- 🖼️ **Full-screen actor grid** — photos, names and appearance counts at a glance
- 🔍 **Real-time search** — filter actors as you type
- 📄 **Pagination** — configurable page size (default: 60 actors per page)
- 🔀 **Sorting** — by number of appearances (descending) or name A→Z
- 🎬 **Floating home button** — inject a persistent button into every Jellyfin page for one-click access to the index
- 📺 **Channel integration** — actors accessible as a Jellyfin channel from the home screen sidebar
- ⚙️ **Minimum appearances filter** — hide actors with fewer than N titles
- 🔗 **Direct biography navigation** — click any actor to open their Jellyfin biography page

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### Screenshots

> *(coming soon — feel free to reply with yours!)*

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### Requirements

- Jellyfin **10.11.x** or later
- Works on Linux (tested on Raspberry Pi 4) and Windows

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### Installation

1. Go to **Dashboard → Plugins → Repositories** and click **+**
2. Add this URL:
 
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cocome...ifest.json
 
3. Go to **Dashboard → Plugins → Catalog**, find **Actors Index** and click **Install**
4. Restart Jellyfin

**Manual installation:** download the ZIP from the [Releases page](https://github.com/cocomeros/Jellyfin.Pl...x/releases), extract it into your Jellyfin plugins folder (/var/lib/jellyfin/plugins/ActorsIndex/ on Linux) and restart.

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### First-time setup (Linux only)

The "inject home button" feature writes to /usr/share/jellyfin/web/index.html, which is owned by root. To allow this permanently, run once on your server:

bash
sudo mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/jellyfin.service.d
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/jellyfin.service.d/fix-webroot-perms.conf << 'EOF'
[Service]
ExecStartPre=/bin/chown root:jellyfin /usr/share/jellyfin/web/index.html
ExecStartPre=/bin/chmod 664 /usr/share/jellyfin/web/index.html
EOF
sudo systemctl daemon-reload


After every Jellyfin update, just click **🎬 Inject home button** in the plugin settings — no need to touch the server again.

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### Links

- 📦 **GitHub repository:** https://github.com/cocomeros/Jellyfin.Pl...ctorsIndex
- 🚀 **Latest release:** https://github.com/cocomeros/Jellyfin.Pl...ses/latest
- 🗂️ **Repository URL for Jellyfin:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cocome...ifest.json

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Feedback, bug reports and pull requests are very welcome! Hope you enjoy it 🙌

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[TIMFLIX1138]

Haven't had a chance to check this out but I've had the idea recently to be able to click a buttom in a movie/show info screen to bring up the entire cast/crew list rather than having to use the horizontal scroll. Unsure if this could be joined into a part of that but wanted to get my thought out before I forgot, again!

Will check this out soon though!

[cocomeros]

> **What's new in v1.0.0.1 (Jellyfin 10.11.**
>
> The plugin can now update itself — no compilation needed!
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> **If the 🎬 button disappears from the Home screen after a Jellyfin update:**
> → Dashboard → Plugins → Actors Index → **"Inject button into Home"**
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> **If "Inject" shows a red error:**
> → Dashboard → Plugins → Actors Index → **"Check for updates"** → **"Download and install"** → **"Restart Jellyfin"** → **"Inject button into Home"**
>
> **Linux only:** you may need a one-time sudo command to fix permissions on index.html — full instructions in the README: https://github.com/cocomeros/Jellyfin.Pl...ctorsIndex

[cocomeros]

**🛠️ Update v1.0.0.2 — Bug fixes**

Two fixes shipped today:

**1. Floating button now hides during playback**
The 🎬 button was incorrectly visible while watching a movie or show. It now automatically disappears as soon as playback starts and reappears when you pause, stop, or close the player.

**2. Minor code cleanup**
Removed inline CSS styles from the settings page (replaced with proper CSS classes).

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**How to update** (no compilation needed):
Dashboard → Plugins → Actors Index → Settings → *"Controlla aggiornamenti"* → *"Scarica e installa aggiornamento"* → *"Riavvia Jellyfin"*

Or grab the zip directly from the [v1.0.0.2 release page](https://github.com/cocomeros/Jellyfin.Pl...g/v1.0.0.2).

[Desk Crotch]

How do you uninstall it?  I never goes away.  I have tried everything. - Disabling it,  (then restarting Jellyfin), going into plugins and clicking the uninstall button, but it just installs the previous version.  Restarting Jellyfin again,  it looks like it is gone, but it still on the main page, and still in the Plugins area.  How to manually remove this ? The uninstall function is not working.

I now have this stuck in my installation. 

was running 10.11.7, then upgraded to .8 and it still didn't work, now I am upgraded to 10.11.9 and it won't leave.


Windows Platform 10.11.9

Thanks,


EDIT2 - I Removed the directory Actors Index_1.0.0.1 from C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\plugins
Now I don't see it anywhere or reference on the plugins page or homepage.

[Iskelderon]

For some reason it defaults to Italian instead of English text, but the idea of this plugin is intriguing.

[Video64]

Is it possible to get in English ?