API for Metadata Update

[cesar_bianchi]

Hi Guys,

I'm a heavy Jellyfin user to manage, watch and share all my family videos. I like to use and complete all metadata options, through "Metadata Manager" menu item. I already have more 200 video folders and 500 videos approximately. So, it's very hard input all fields and complete data each data through "Metadata Manager". So, I'm trying automate part of this process building a own desktop application to input some fields, like "persons", "genres", etc, but, when I was reading "API Documentation Reference", I can't found any API to "post" metadata infos.

So, I would like to suggest a simple complementation of "API Documentation Reference" with an option that related to "Update / Post / Put Metadata infos".

PS: I found all others API that I need to complete my development, as "Get Items", "Get Uersrs" and others. 

Thanks
Cesar

[nooobieee]

In the meanwhile what I do is turn on network tracing in my browser to capture the API calls that are being made by the UI. The trace tells me the call and the payload I need to send.

[cesar_bianchi]

In the meanwhile what I do is turn on network tracing in my browser to capture the API calls that are being made by the UI. The trace tells me the call and the payload I need to send.

Hi @nooobieee

Thank's for reply! You helped me a lot!!! I don't know why I didn't think that it before!!

I did a simple test using Mozilla Firefox and I could get the API url, body and response examples.

Now I'll finish my development and then I'll search "How I can contribute as a API Reference Documentation Writter" also and input this discovery!!

[herby2212]

For testing the Jellyfin API tools like Postman and Insomnia can also be very helpful. As you can organize your requests and save them for later usage.