Script to migrate your "watched" list of media to a new Plex server.

Features

• Migrate missing users.
• Migrate watch history of users.
• Migrate date added/created to preserve on-deck ordering

This utility is intended to migrate over your user media viewing history when you move to a new Plex server instance or to just maintain a failover. The process of copying around the full database folder structure is not reliable and is just trouble. So this tool assumes you are starting new libraries on the new machine. After copying over all your media, instruct the new Plex server to scan and rebuild your metadata. Yes, this will take quite a bit of time for large collections. Do this for all your libraries before proceeding. This script should be your final step.

You may start an export on a running Plex server, but you must stop the Plex server on the destination side before loading the export.

Export from your primary (source) Plex database:

python3 watchlist.py -e <source db>  <export file>

ex: python3 watchlist.py -e /mnt/data/Plex/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Plug-in\ Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db /tmp/export.json

When ready to import into the destination Plex db, stop the Plex server first or you may corrupt the database.

python3 watchlist.py -i <export file>  <destination db>

ex: python3 watchlist.py -i export.json /mnt/data/Plex/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Plug-in\ Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db

This script is rerun-safe. You can run it as many times as you want, and you shouldn't get duplicate data.

1. Old media garbage data in the source Plex db.
2. Incompatible guid values between source and destination. When Plex switched to their own scrapers the guid values changed, which were being used as primary keys in the database. To fix you can try refreshing full metadata of the affected item(s) and re-export.