plex: full nox module — client, tools and events (ADR 0044/0046)

Moves plex's API client and tools out of the shared hal sdk into the module,
so a Plex API change rebuilds only plex. Tools: status, search, sessions,
recently-added, refresh. And a real event design: it emits playback
started/stopped and item.added by watching the server, and consumes
module.*.download.completed to rescan so a downloader's fetch becomes a
visible item. Typechecks against the sdk; manifest parses with its emits/
consumes and broker own-secret.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
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// The Plex API client — plex's own code, living in the module (novox/hq ADR 0044). Moved out of the
// shared hal sdk, where a change to Plex's API rebuilt everything; here it rebuilds only plex. Both
// this module's tools and its events entrypoint import it, and nothing outside plex does.
import { existsSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
import { join } from "node:path";
export interface PlexLibrary {
key: string;
title: string;
type: string;
count?: number;
}
export interface PlexSession {
key: string;
title: string;
user: string;
player: string;
state: string;
type: string;
}
export interface PlexItem {
title: string;
type: string;
year?: number;
summary?: string;
addedAt?: string;
}
export class PlexClient {
readonly baseUrl: string;
constructor(
url: string,
private readonly token: string,
) {
this.baseUrl = url.replace(/\/$/, "");
}
/**
* Build from the module's resolved environment. The token is read from MESH_PLEX_TOKEN, or
* discovered from the server's own Preferences.xml under the data directory — the same file Plex
* writes it to, so a running server needs nothing configured by hand.
*/
static fromEnv(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = process.env): PlexClient {
const url = env.MESH_PLEX_URL ?? `http://127.0.0.1:${env.PLEX_PORT ?? "32400"}`;
const dataDir = env.MESH_PLEX_DATA_DIR ?? "/var/lib/plex";
const token = env.MESH_PLEX_TOKEN ?? PlexClient.detectToken(dataDir);
if (!token) throw new Error("no Plex token — set MESH_PLEX_TOKEN or make the data dir readable");
return new PlexClient(url, token);
}
/** Discover the token from the server's Preferences.xml, falling back to null. */
static detectToken(dataDir: string): string | null {
const prefs = join(dataDir, "config", "Library", "Application Support", "Plex Media Server", "Preferences.xml");
if (existsSync(prefs)) {
const match = readFileSync(prefs, "utf8").match(/PlexOnlineToken="([^"]+)"/);
if (match) return match[1];
}
return null;
}
private async get(path: string): Promise<any> {
const url = `${this.baseUrl}${path}`;
const sep = url.includes("?") ? "&" : "?";
const res = await fetch(`${url}${sep}X-Plex-Token=${this.token}`, { headers: { Accept: "application/json" } });
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Plex API ${path}: ${res.status} ${await res.text()}`);
return res.json();
}
async getServerInfo(): Promise<{ name: string; version: string; platform: string }> {
const mc = (await this.get("/")).MediaContainer;
return { name: mc.friendlyName || mc.machineIdentifier, version: mc.version, platform: mc.platform };
}
async getLibraries(): Promise<PlexLibrary[]> {
const dirs = (await this.get("/library/sections")).MediaContainer?.Directory ?? [];
return dirs.map((d: any) => ({ key: d.key, title: d.title, type: d.type, count: d.count }));
}
async getSessions(): Promise<PlexSession[]> {
const sessions = (await this.get("/status/sessions")).MediaContainer?.Metadata ?? [];
return sessions.map((s: any) => ({
key: s.sessionKey ?? s.ratingKey,
title: s.title + (s.grandparentTitle ? ` (${s.grandparentTitle})` : ""),
user: s.User?.title ?? "unknown",
player: s.Player?.title ?? s.Player?.product ?? "unknown",
state: s.Player?.state ?? "unknown",
type: s.type,
}));
}
async search(query: string): Promise<PlexItem[]> {
const hubs = (await this.get(`/hubs/search?query=${encodeURIComponent(query)}&limit=20`)).MediaContainer?.Hub ?? [];
const results: PlexItem[] = [];
for (const hub of hubs) {
for (const m of hub.Metadata ?? []) {
results.push({
title: m.title + (m.grandparentTitle ? ` (${m.grandparentTitle})` : ""),
type: m.type,
year: m.year,
summary: m.summary?.slice(0, 200),
});
}
}
return results;
}
async getRecentlyAdded(limit = 20): Promise<PlexItem[]> {
const items = (await this.get(`/library/recentlyAdded?X-Plex-Container-Size=${limit}`)).MediaContainer?.Metadata ?? [];
return items.map((m: any) => ({
title: m.title + (m.grandparentTitle ? ` (${m.grandparentTitle})` : ""),
type: m.type,
year: m.year,
summary: m.summary?.slice(0, 200),
addedAt: m.addedAt ? new Date(m.addedAt * 1000).toISOString() : undefined,
}));
}
/** Ask Plex to rescan a library section — how a "new media arrived" event becomes a visible item. */
async refreshLibrary(key: string): Promise<void> {
await this.get(`/library/sections/${key}/refresh`);
}
/** Rescan every library, for when what arrived is not known to belong to one. */
async refreshAll(): Promise<void> {
for (const library of await this.getLibraries()) await this.refreshLibrary(library.key);
}
}
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// plex's events. The tool runtime imports this once the broker is bound, and it does two things:
// it watches the server and emits what happened, and it reacts to the mesh's media events.
//
// Emits (novox/hq ADR 0046/0047):
// module.plex.playback.started / .stopped — someone began or ended watching
// module.plex.item.added — a new item appeared in a library
// Consumes:
// module.*.download.completed — a downloader finished; rescan so the file shows up
//
// The polling is deliberately unhurried: Plex is a neighbour on the same node, and an event a few
// seconds late is an event, whereas hammering the server for immediacy nobody asked for is not.
import { emit, on } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
import { PlexClient, type PlexSession } from "./client.js";
const plex = PlexClient.fromEnv();
// Playback, by diffing the set of active sessions. Primed silently on the first look so a server
// that was already streaming when this started does not announce it as freshly begun.
const active = new Map<string, PlexSession>();
let playbackPrimed = false;
async function pollSessions(): Promise<void> {
const sessions = await plex.getSessions();
const now = new Map(sessions.map((s) => [s.key, s]));
if (playbackPrimed) {
for (const [key, s] of now) {
if (!active.has(key)) await emit("module.plex.playback.started", { title: s.title, user: s.user, player: s.player, kind: s.type });
}
for (const [key, s] of active) {
if (!now.has(key)) await emit("module.plex.playback.stopped", { title: s.title, user: s.user, player: s.player });
}
}
active.clear();
for (const [key, s] of now) active.set(key, s);
playbackPrimed = true;
}
// New items, by diffing recently-added. Primed silently too, or a restart would re-announce the
// whole recent list as new.
const seen = new Set<string>();
let itemsPrimed = false;
async function pollRecent(): Promise<void> {
const items = await plex.getRecentlyAdded(20);
for (const item of items) {
const id = `${item.title}@${item.addedAt ?? ""}`;
if (!seen.has(id)) {
if (itemsPrimed) await emit("module.plex.item.added", item);
seen.add(id);
}
}
itemsPrimed = true;
}
// A downloader finished somewhere on the mesh: rescan, so what it fetched becomes a visible item
// rather than a file Plex has not noticed. Idempotent — a rescan too many costs a little disk I/O.
await on("module.*.download.completed", async () => {
await plex.refreshAll();
});
const tick = (fn: () => Promise<void>, everyMs: number): void => {
const run = (): void => void fn().catch((err) => console.error(`[plex] ${err}`));
setInterval(run, everyMs);
run();
};
tick(pollSessions, 15_000);
tick(pollRecent, 60_000);
console.log("[plex] watching sessions and recently-added, reacting to downloads");
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"capabilities": [
"container-runtime"
],
"emits": [
"module.plex.playback.started",
"module.plex.playback.stopped",
"module.plex.item.added"
],
"consumes": [
"module.*.download.completed"
],
"own-secrets": {
"broker": "/var/lib/plex/broker"
},
"listens": [
{
"port": 32400,
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{
"name": "@novox/module-plex",
"version": "0.1.0",
"description": "plex — media server. Its API client, tools and events live here (novox/hq ADR 0044).",
"type": "module",
"private": true,
"dependencies": {
"@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.0"
},
"devDependencies": {
"@types/node": "^22.0.0",
"typescript": "^5.6.0"
}
}
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// plex's tools — moved here from the shared sdk (novox/hq ADR 0044), importing plex's own client.
// They return structured data; the mesh serves them through the sdk's tool harness.
import { registerModuleTools, type ToolDefinition } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
import { PlexClient } from "../client.js";
export function getPlexTools(plex: PlexClient): ToolDefinition[] {
return [
{
name: "plex_status",
description: "Plex server status: server info, libraries, active sessions, recently added.",
input: {},
run: async () => {
const [server, libraries, sessions, recent] = await Promise.all([
plex.getServerInfo(),
plex.getLibraries(),
plex.getSessions(),
plex.getRecentlyAdded(10),
]);
return { server, libraries, sessions, recentlyAdded: recent };
},
},
{
name: "plex_search",
description: "Search across all Plex libraries — movies, shows, episodes, music.",
input: { query: { type: "string", description: "the search query" } },
run: async (args) => ({ query: String(args.query), results: await plex.search(String(args.query)) }),
},
{
name: "plex_sessions",
description: "Active Plex playback sessions — who is watching what, and where.",
input: {},
run: async () => {
const sessions = await plex.getSessions();
return { count: sessions.length, sessions };
},
},
{
name: "plex_recently_added",
description: "Recently added media in Plex.",
input: { limit: { type: "number", description: "how many items (default 20)" } },
run: async (args) => ({ items: await plex.getRecentlyAdded(args.limit ? Number(args.limit) : 20) }),
},
{
name: "plex_refresh",
description: "Ask Plex to rescan its libraries so new files on disk become visible items.",
input: { library: { type: "string", description: "a library section key; omitted rescans all" } },
run: async (args) => {
if (args.library) {
await plex.refreshLibrary(String(args.library));
return { refreshed: String(args.library) };
}
await plex.refreshAll();
return { refreshed: "all" };
},
},
];
}
// The tools exist only when a token can be found; without one, plex contributes none rather than
// failing the whole runtime.
registerModuleTools("plex", (env) => {
try {
return getPlexTools(PlexClient.fromEnv(env));
} catch {
return [];
}
});
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{
"compilerOptions": {
"target": "ES2022",
"module": "NodeNext",
"moduleResolution": "NodeNext",
"strict": true,
"esModuleInterop": true,
"skipLibCheck": true,
"noEmit": true
},
"include": ["client.ts", "index.ts", "tools/index.ts"]
}