Trombee — Browse your entire cast library at a glance

[drbuju]

Hello everyone! I'd like to share Trombee, a plugin for browsing your entire cast library at a glance.
Trombee is a fork of Actors Index by cocomeros — full credit to them for the original idea and the solid foundation. I forked it to translate the UI to English, add a few features I wanted for my own setup, and fix some compatibility issues that came up running it alongside other plugins.

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What is Trombee?
Trombee builds a beautiful, browsable grid of every actor (or director, writer, guest star…) in your Jellyfin library — with their photo, name, and how many titles they appear in. Click anyone to see a native-looking detail view with their biography, birth date, and a poster grid of their filmography, right inside the page.

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Features

• 🖼️ Full-screen grid — photos, names and appearance counts at a glance
  
• 🔍 Real-time search — filter as you type
  
• 🎭 Person type filter — switch between Actors, Directors, Writers, Guest Stars, and other credited roles
  
• 📁 Library filter — restrict results to one or more specific libraries, scoped to what you have access to
  
• 🪪 Native-style detail view — photo, biography, birth date, and a poster-grid filmography for anyone you click on (TV episodes are grouped under their parent series, not listed individually)
  
• 📄 Pagination — configurable page size (default: 60 per page)
  
• 🔀 Sorting — by number of appearances (descending) or name A→Z
  
• ⚙️ Minimum appearances filter — hide people with fewer than N titles
  
• 👥 Non-admin access — optionally expose the page to regular users too (not just admins), respecting each user's library permissions, via the community Plugin Pages plugin
  
• ⚡ 10-minute internal cache — repeat visits load instantly even on large libraries
  
• 🔄 Self-updating — checks for and installs new versions from its own settings page
  

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Screenshots
(attached below — feel free to reply with yours!)

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Requirements

• Jellyfin 10.11.x or later
  
• .NET 9 (included in Jellyfin 10.11+)
  
• ⚠️ So far only tested on Ubuntu. It should work anywhere Jellyfin 10.11+ runs, but I'd love to hear from anyone running it on other platforms (Windows, Docker, Raspberry Pi, etc.) — feedback very welcome!
  

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Installation

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

Manual installation: download the ZIP from the Releases page, extract it into your Jellyfin plugins folder (/var/lib/jellyfin/plugins/Trombee/ on Linux) and restart.

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Want regular users to see it too?
By default the page is admin-only, like any Jellyfin plugin page. If you install the community File Transformation and Plugin Pages plugins (repo: https://www.iamparadox.dev/jellyfin/plug...ifest.json), Trombee automatically registers itself so any signed-in user can browse the cast grid too — scoped to their own library permissions. Full steps are in the README.

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Links

• 📦 GitHub repository: https://github.com/drbuju/Jellyfin.Plugin.Trombee
  
• 🚀 Latest release: https://github.com/drbuju/Jellyfin.Plugi...ses/latest
  
• 🗂️ Repository URL for Jellyfin: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drbuju...ifest.json
  
• 🙏 Original plugin: Actors Index by cocomeros
  

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Feedback, bug reports and pull requests are very welcome — especially if you're running this on something other than Ubuntu, I'd love to know how it goes! And again, huge thanks to cocomeros for building the original plugin this is based on 🙌