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Interact with Plex Media Server API

Media → Analyze

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Summary

Trigger the analysis process on a specific media item to update and optimize its metadata within Plex Media Server.

Inputs

  • Rating Key (required) — The unique identifier (rating key) of the media item to analyze.

Output shape

a single object representing the Plex API response to the analyze request (usually empty or status confirmation).

No pagination. The output is the raw response from the Plex server for the analyze action on the specified media item.

Examples

Example 1: Analyze a movie with rating key 12345 to refresh its metadata and optimize media information.

Set Resource to Media, Operation to Analyze, and enter Rating Key as 12345.

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