Plex
Plex, Inc. is a personal-media and streaming company whose Plex Media Server organizes, transcodes and streams a user's own movies, TV, music and photos to Plex client apps on virtually every platform, alongside a free ad-supported live TV and on-demand catalog, Discover, Rentals, the Plexamp music player and the paid Plex Pass tier. In September 2025 Plex published official documentation for the Plex Media Server HTTP API for the first time — an OpenAPI 3.1 contract covering libraries, metadata, playlists, play queues, sessions, DVR/Live TV, transcoding and server administration — together with a new public-key JWT authentication flow on plex.tv, Plex Pass webhooks, and an OAuth-protected remote MCP server for agents.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Plex the way a machine reads it — 68 machine-readable artifacts across 31 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Plex scores 55.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 64/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
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How we profile Plex
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Plex. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 31
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Plex Account and Authentication API
The plex.tv cloud API that issues and refreshes the credentials every Plex Media Server call depends on: PIN-based device linking, JWK public-key registration, nonce issuance, d...
Plex MCP Server
A first-party remote Model Context Protocol server operated by Plex at https://plex.tv/internal/mcp. It advertises RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata, RFC 8414 authorization-s...
Plex Activities API
Activities provide a way to monitor and control asynchronous operations on the server. In order to receive real-time updates for activities, a client would normally subscribe vi...
Plex Butler API
The butler is responsible for running periodic tasks. Some tasks run daily, others every few days, and some weekly. These includes database maintenance, metadata updating, thumb...
Plex Collections API
The Collections API from Plex — 1 operation(s) for collections.
Plex Content API
The actual content of the media provider
Plex Devices API
Media grabbers provide ways for media to be obtained for a given protocol. The simplest ones are `stream` and `download`. More complex grabbers can have associated devices Netwo...
Plex Download Queue API
The Download Queue API from Plex — 8 operation(s) for download queue.
Plex DV Rs API
The DVR provides means to watch and record live TV. This section of endpoints describes how to setup the DVR itself
Plex EPG API
The EPG (Electronic Program Guide) is responsible for obtaining metadata for what is airing on each channel and when
Plex Events API
The server can notify clients in real-time of a wide range of events, from library scanning, to preferences being modified, to changes to media, and many other things. This is a...
Plex General API
General endpoints for basic PMS operation not specific to any media provider
Plex Hubs API
The hubs within a media provider
Plex Library API
Library endpoints which are outside of the Media Provider API. Typically this is manipulation of the library (adding/removing sections, modifying preferences, etc).
Plex Library Collections API
Endpoints for manipulating collections. In addition to these endpoints, `/library/collections/:collectionId/X` will be rerouted to `/library/metadata/:collectionId/X` and respon...
Plex Library Playlists API
Endpoints for manipulating playlists.
Plex Live TV API
LiveTV contains the playback sessions of a channel from a DVR device
Plex Log API
Logging mechanism to allow clients to log to the server
Plex Metadata Agents API
The Metadata Agents API from Plex — 5 operation(s) for metadata agents.
Plex Play Queue API
The playqueue feature within a media provider A play queue represents the current list of media for playback. Although queues are persisted by the server, they should be regarde...
Plex Playlist API
The playlist feature within a media provider Playlists are ordered collections of media. They can be dumb (just a list of media) or smart (based on a media query, such as "all a...
Plex Preferences API
The Preferences API from Plex — 2 operation(s) for preferences.
Plex Provider API
Media providers are the starting points for the entire Plex Media Server media library API. It defines the paths for the groups of endpoints. The `/media/providers` should be th...
Plex Rate API
The rate feature within a media provider
Plex Search API
The search feature within a media provider
Plex Status API
The status endpoints give you information about current playbacks, play history, and even terminating sessions.
Plex Subscriptions API
Subscriptions determine which media will be recorded and the criteria for selecting an airing when multiple are available
Plex Timeline API
The actions feature within a media provider
Plex Transcoder API
The Transcoder API from Plex — 5 operation(s) for transcoder.
Plex Ultra Blur API
Service provided to compute UltraBlur colors and images.
Plex Updater API
This describes the API for searching and applying updates to the Plex Media Server. Updates to the status can be observed via the Event API.
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Open Collections 30
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Activities API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Butler API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Collections API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Content API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Devices API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Download Queue API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server DV Rs API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server EPG API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Events API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server General API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Hubs API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Library API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Library Collections API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Library Playlists API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Live TV API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Log API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Metadata Agents API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Play Queue API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Playlist API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Preferences API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Provider API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Rate API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Search API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Status API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Subscriptions API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Timeline API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Transcoder API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Ultra Blur API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlex Media Server Updater API
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
plex-mcp.yml
MCP SERVEREvent Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Plex Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Plex — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 6
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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