I like iOS shortcuts. This week, I created an iOS shortcut to scan my Plex library. Now this may seem weird since there is an option to scan a library from the official Plex iOS app and there are also options to scan the library automatically or periodically. For various reasons (excuses), I didn’t like that the official app only lets you scan one library at a time and I have automatic/periodic scans turned off to avoid drive access, so I created the shortcut to scan from my phone any time I felt like I wanted to trigger it.

1. Create a new iOS shortcut
2. Add the “Get contents of URL” action
3. Get your X-Plex-Token (see instructions on official website)
4. Set the URL in your action to: http://{ip_address}:{port}/library/sections/all/refresh?X-Plex-Token={plex_token}