How To Setup Customized PLEX-to-Discord Notifications With Tautulli


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If you are like me and don't like the idea of pushing Recently Added notifications to your Discord server for each new addition to your Plex server, I may have the solution for you.  By the end of this tutorial, we will have a functioning notification that lists Recently Added shows and movies in 1 message, and fires off once per day - more on why I picked 1 time per day will come later in this post. 

It will look something like this:

 

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It does require multiple steps, but I will try and explain them as best as possible - if you have any questions about the process, let me know and I will help as much as I can!

 

 

To start, we will need a few things (apart from obviously, a Plex server):

- Tautulli (fully setup, apart from this notification)
- A free mailparser.io account
- A Discord server for the Webhook to send this information to
- My customized newsletter template
- Optional: A code editor, if you want to edit my template (I use Brackets myself)

 

Essentially, what we will be doing is setting up a custom newsletter in Tautulli, routing this newsletter to the email generated on MailParser.io and then using the Parsed Data we grab on MailParser to send a Webhook to Discord with the info. This is meant to be automated and will require little to no changes once set up the first time (unless something were to change on Tautulli's end in the future).

 

 

Step 1:
Assuming you have already created your account on MailParser, you will want to make sure you Create A New Inbox. You can name it whatever you like, mine is just named Discord. This email will be where we will be sending the Tautulli newsletter to. You don't have to copy this just yet, but you will need to later on.


Note: MailParser.io's free plan offers you to receive 30 emails to your account per month - this is why I picked to have the notification send once a day, but if you have their paid plan, you are able to go ahead and trigger this more often.

 

Step 2:

I have created a customized version of the default Tautulli Newsletter, which strips it of the show/movie description, rating, genre, language. All this has is the poster art (which I left in, but you can take out if you like), the show/movie title, the year of the release and how many seasons, episodes were added.

- Download my template here
- Once you do, add it to the following directory (on the system where Tautulli is installed): /tautulli/data/interfaces/custom-newsletters - this directory may not exist, just create the folders and put the recently_added.html in the custom-newsletters folder.
- Optionally, edit this template to your liking.

 

Step 3:

Once you've done that, you will need to open the Tautulli web interface. Once there, click the cog wheel in the top right corner, go to Notifications & Newsletters and then Show Advanced settings for this page. 

In the advanced settings, you will see a setting called Custom Newsletter Templates Folder, it should be empty, let's change that.

 - You will want to put /config/data/interfaces/custom-newsletters in this box.
 - Save this page.

 

Step 4:

While still in the Tautulli Settings, you will want to go to Newsletter Agents in the left sidebar.

You will want to Add a new newsletter agent, pick Recently Added and configure each tab like so:

 

Configuration Tab:

- Make sure to check the box to Enable the newsletter
- Schedule: I have this set to Simple, Every day at 16:00, with the Time Frame set to Last 1 days - but this is personal preference, so tinker around with it all you like.
- Included Libraries: I have this set to all of my libraries, but you can pick just specific ones if you like.

 

Saving & Sending:

- Enable the option to Send Newsletter as an HTML Formatted Email, if it isn't already enabled.
- From name: Whatever you like, doesn't matter
- From: Your personal email
- To: The email that you generated on MailParser in the 1st step.
- SMTP Server: smtp.gmail.com if your personal email is a Gmail email
- SMTP Port: 587 - again if you're using a Gmail email.
- SMTP User: Your Gmail username (everything before @gmail.com)
- SMTP Password: Generate a Gmail App Password for Tautulli and input it here
- Enable the TLS checkbox option.

All other settings should be set to their default selection.

 

Step 5:

You can now send a test email of your newsletter to the MailParser email by going to the Test Newsletter tab of the Newsletter settings and clicking Test Recently Added Newsletter. Your email should show up in MailParser within a few minutes. It's pretty quick.

 

Once you see that email come in, we can move on to the configuration of MailParser:

- Within the MailParser Web Interface, we will want to open up the Parsing Rules option on the left hand sidebar.
- Now, you will want to Add A New Parsing Rule 
- The website should automatically pull in the Tautulli Newsletter we just sent to it as the sample email to build our configuration - but if it doesn't, hit Change Sample Email on the top right of your page and select the email you just sent to it.
- In the Select Data Source section, make sure to choose Body and HTML in their respective sections.
- Now we will move on to the Crop, Modify & Find Patterns With Filters section to make the actual parsing rule.
- We will be making a few parsing rules, and we will configure them like so:
 - Movies:
     - Add text filter -> Replace and Remove -> Remove Lines and Entities -> Remove Link URLS
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Find Start Position -> Text match: after -> Recently Added Movies
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define End Position -> Text match: before -> Recently Added TV Shows
     - Add text filter -> Replace and Remove -> Remove Lines and Entities -> Remove Empty Lines
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Find Start Position -> After [x] lines -> 1
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define End Position -> Crop last [x] lines -> 1
     - Make sure the output shows the movies as a list and then save this parsing rule by clicking the button that says OK, looks good!
     - Name this field Movies, and click Validate & Save 
  - Shows:
     - Add text filter -> Replace and Remove -> Remove Lines and Entities -> Remove Link URLS    
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Find Start Position -> Text match: after -> Recently Added TV Shows
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define End Position -> Crop last [x] lines -> 1
     - Add text filter -> Replace and Remove -> Remove Lines and Entities -> Remove Empty Lines
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Find Start Position -> After [x] lines -> 1
     - Make sure the output shows the shows as a list and then save this parsing rule by clicking the button that says OK, looks good!
     - Name this field Shows, and click Validate & Save
  - Movies Title:
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define End Position -> Text match: before -> Recently Added Movies
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define End Position -> Text match: after -> Recently Added Movies
     - Add text filter -> Replace & Remove -> Search & Replace Text -> Text replace -> Search for: Recently Added Movies -> Replace with **Recently Added Movies** (This will make the title bolded in our Discord Embed, I just personally think it looks better)
     - Add text filter -> Refine Parsed Results -> Set Default Value -> **No Recently Added Movies** (if no movies are found in the Tautulli Newsletter for the period of time specified, it will spit out that no movies were recently added)
     - Click OK, looks good, then name this field Movies Title, and click Validate & Save
  - Shows Title:
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define End Position -> Text match: before -> Recently Added TV Shows
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define End Position -> Text match: after -> Recently Added TV Shows
     - Add text filter -> Replace & Remove -> Search & Replace Text -> Text replace -> Search for: Recently Added TV Shows -> Replace with **Recently Added TV Shows**
     - Add text filter -> Refine Parsed Results -> Set Default Value -> **No Recently Added TV Shows**
     - Click OK, looks good, then name this field Shows Title, and click Validate & Save

 

Step 6:

After creating our Parsing Rules, we will need to configure the connecting between MailParser and Discord - to do this, click Webhook Integrations on the left-hand sidebar of MailParser.

- Click Add New Integration
- Select a Generic Webhook
  - Basic Options:
     - Name: Discord 
     - Payload Format: JSON
     - Target URL: Your Discord Webhook URL (created by going to your Discord Server, Server Settings & then Webhooks)
  - Advanced Options:
     - HTTP Verb: POST
     - Repeating Data Behaviour: One request per row
     - Data Structure: Custom - provide your own template
     - Structure Template: 

     {
       "content": "**Newest additions to the Plex server:**",
       "embeds": [
         {
           "title": "{{movies_title}}",
           "description": "{{movies}}"
         },
         {
           "title": "{{shows_title}}",
           "description": "{{shows}}"
         }
       ]
     }

- Next, you will want to click Save & Test, and you should quickly see your parsed data sent as a message in your Discord channel!

 

That should be all, if you have any questions or if you're stuck anywhere, please do let me know, I'd love to help as much as I can!

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I'm assuming it is safe to say that we can update the inbox settings on mailparser to clear the inbox after the data has been sent to the discord server. I think that should be a step added for those that have the free version. Other than that, thanks for posting this! It's awesome!

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1 hour ago, ironpfist said:

I'm assuming it is safe to say that we can update the inbox settings on mailparser to clear the inbox after the data has been sent to the discord server. I think that should be a step added for those that have the free version. Other than that, thanks for posting this! It's awesome!

@ironpfist - Thank you, I'm glad it was useful for you!

Good idea! I haven't tested, but does clearing the inbox also clear the monthly usage? I think it still keeps count of how many emails have come in over the course of that month. Correct me if I am wrong, though and I will add that to the guide as a final step if it works differently than I imagined.

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Hey there great guide! Just a couple things I'm having issue with. When I test my custom webhook I get an error response,

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"Oh ... something went wrong ...
The server responded with the HTTP response code 400 but we were expecting a response code 20X. Please check if the target URL is correct and the remote server is correctly set up."

I'm pretty sure I setup the webhook right. You didn't put much detail into that portion and there's not really much to it on Discord side that I can see.

Discord > Server settings > Webhooks > create webhook > webhook name > channel > webhook URL > save. 

 

Do you know what I might be missing? 

 

The only other things I have issue with are the parsing for Movies Title and Shows Title. Following those particular rules, it pulls some odd information from the email. I don't know if that has anything to do with the error, but that was the only other thing I found was odd, but didn't want to mess with it before testing. 
 

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@Mister Pipps I was having the same error. Not sure if it's the same cause for you but It turns out discord has a character limits on the webhook. Seems to be around 2000 characters on each "description" field. 

In the last week I've had maybe 49 new shows/episodes which blew passed the limit on the TV show description field. Movies come in much slower so that was nowhere near the limit.

 

To fix it i did the following:

Under "Shows" I added "Define End Position > After [x] characters > 2000" to keep it at the limit and then also a "Define End Position > Crop last [x] lines > 1" to remove the last line which will most likely be cut early by the character limit.

It does mean that you can miss some items out if it's a heavy week, it took my shows in the webhook from 49 down to 39, I can probably live with that but if not i do see a "Define Start Poistion > After [x] lines" which could be used to capture anything after the first 2000 and send them in another webhook.

 

I also had an issue with the parsing in the guide for either "Movies Title" or "Shows Title" or even both, i can't remember now. What i had to do was a slight amendment to the first option of each, change from "Define End Position" to "Define Start Position":

 

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  - Movies Title:
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define Start Position -> Text match: before -> Recently Added Movies
  - Shows Title:
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define Start Position -> Text match: before -> Recently Added TV Shows

 

 

Thought i'd update this with my fixes in case someone else comes along and wants to set this up.

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On 3/3/2021 at 3:36 PM, NotAPC said:

https://imgur.com/a/nCTZF8A
 

Followed method but looks like im missing something or is there a better way of doing this?

Some of the instructions in the guide are wrong I believe. I've made some fixes to it below:
 

Step 3:

Once you've done that, you will need to open the Tautulli web interface. Once there, click the cog wheel in the top right corner, go to Notifications & Newsletters and then Show Advanced settings for this page. 

In the advanced settings, you will see a setting called Custom Newsletter Templates Folder, it should be empty, let's change that.

 - You will want to put /config/tautulli/data/interfaces/custom-newsletters in this box.
 - Save this page.


Step 5:
 - Movies:
     - Add text filter -> Replace and Remove -> Remove Lines and Entities -> Remove Link URLS
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Find Start Position -> Text match: after -> Recently Added Movies
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define End Position -> Text match: before -> Recently Added TV Shows
     - Add text filter -> Replace and Remove -> Remove Lines and Entities -> Remove Empty Lines
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Find Start Position -> After [x] lines -> 1
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define End Position -> Crop last [x] lines -> 1
     - Make sure the output shows the movies as a list and then save this parsing rule by clicking the button that says OK, looks good!
     - Name this field Movies, and click Validate & Save 
  - Shows:
     - Add text filter -> Replace and Remove -> Remove Lines and Entities -> Remove Link URLS    
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Find Start Position -> Text match: after -> Recently Added TV Shows
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define End Position -> Crop last [x] lines -> 1
     - Add text filter -> Replace and Remove -> Remove Lines and Entities -> Remove Empty Lines
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Find Start Position -> After [x] lines -> 1
     - Make sure the output shows the shows as a list and then save this parsing rule by clicking the button that says OK, looks good!
     - Name this field Shows, and click Validate & Save
  - Movies Title:
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define End Find Start Position -> Text match: before -> Recently Added Movies
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define End Position -> Text match: after -> Recently Added Movies
     - Add text filter -> Replace & Remove -> Search & Replace Text -> Text replace -> Search for: Recently Added Movies -> Replace with **Recently Added Movies** (This will make the title bolded in our Discord Embed, I just personally think it looks better)
     - Add text filter -> Refine Parsed Results -> Set Default Value -> **No Recently Added Movies** (if no movies are found in the Tautulli Newsletter for the period of time specified, it will spit out that no movies were recently added)
     - Click OK, looks good, then name this field Movies Title, and click Validate & Save
  - Shows Title:
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define End Find Start Position -> Text match: before -> Recently Added TV Shows
     - Add text filter -> Set Start & End Position -> Define End Position -> Text match: after -> Recently Added TV Shows
     - Add text filter -> Replace & Remove -> Search & Replace Text -> Text replace -> Search for: Recently Added TV Shows -> Replace with **Recently Added TV Shows**
     - Add text filter -> Refine Parsed Results -> Set Default Value -> **No Recently Added TV Shows**
     - Click OK, looks good, then name this field Shows Title, and click Validate & Save

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Hey thanks for the awesome guide.

 

First of all, I have followed all the steps up to point 4 exactly without a hitch. 😀

 

Somehow mailparser does not display any incoming mail, when I klick the "Test Recently Added Newsletter" button.

After that I tried several of my private Google accounts, but to no success. 

 

I have no idea what the reason could be 

 

any help would be appreciated 

thx for your time

 

MiaMi

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