Metadata handling

[jellyfinlover90]

How does Jellyfin handle metadata? 
Say I have a movie or show, does it go through the internet and reveal the contents of my library? Like revealing identifiable information? 

What if I post the imdb number to fetch the metadata? 

How is that handled? How can I make that private? More secure?

[Venson]

Hey @jellyfinlover90

Jellyfin has two build in metadata providers
- The Movie Database (TMDb) https://github.com/jellyfin/TMDbLib
- Open Media Database (OMDb) https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-plugin-omdb

where we send the in the case and if the filename does contain the information:
- The media Year
- The media Name
- The Type: Movie or Episode
- The ImdbId
- Episode Number
- Season Number

This is made as an Http request. That is all jellyfin does send to omdb.

What is your specific concern if i may ask?

[jellyfinlover90]

I don’t want the Meta providers to know which movies or shows are in my library. Some are dvdrip from friends.

[TheDreadPirate]

The only identifiable information they could potentially retain is your IP. Obfuscate that with a VPN service and they don't have anything, if they even keep track of that.

[Venson]

@TheDreadPirate then your VPN has all the information. Not quite better.

@jellyfinlover90 the level of "privacy" you seek is really not obtainable though legal means. The internet works upon IPs, so yes apart from those information i posted they will have your ip, however every website you visit will know them. I dont see why that should be an issue

[jellyfinlover90]

Any guide or way for me to have Jellyfin fetch metadata through my VPN? I’m running CasaOS Jellyfin with Docker.