MediaShelf/README.md
Jess Hallsworth 74dfc4dab8
Promote Tautulli to the primary watch-history source
Tautulli is running at 192.168.1.100:8181, so watch data now comes from
get_history rather than Plex's session history. This matters beyond
convenience: Plex records that a play started, Tautulli records how far it
got. A film three people abandoned after five minutes and a film nobody ever
opened are opposite signals for a deletion decision, and Plex reports them
identically.

- Adds sections 4.8-4.11: Tautulli ingest, completion semantics, fallback,
  coverage horizon, and the pms_identifier cross-check
- Splits MediaProvider into MediaProvider + HistoryProvider so library data
  and watch data can come from different servers
- watch_event gains percent_complete, disposition, source, and session
  merging; media_item gains partial/abandoned counts and pre_history
- New 'rejection' score component, with weights renormalizing when a
  component is unavailable rather than silently scoring everything lower
- Deployment: image built off-box and pushed to Nox's Portainer, versioned
  tags rather than :latest
- Closes three open questions, opens two smaller ones

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GVbG48GAXfCZatcmX123Ra
2026-09-07 04:51:41 +00:00

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# MediaShelf
A self-hosted web app for figuring out which of the thousands of files in a Plex library
are actually worth keeping.
MediaShelf scans a Plex Media Server over its HTTP API and pulls watch history from
Tautulli, builds a local snapshot of every movie and TV season, and joins together facts
that are never shown side by side — date added, size on disk, file path, owning library,
watch count, last watched, and *how much of it anyone actually finished* — into a
sortable, filterable, chartable grid with a tunable **reclaim score** that ranks deletion
candidates.
## Status
**v1 is report-only.** MediaShelf does not delete, move, or modify anything. It produces
a ranked list, saved rule sets, and CSV export. Deletion is designed for in the roadmap
but deliberately not built, so the scanner and the scoring model can be trusted before
anything destructive is wired up.
Nothing is implemented yet — this repository currently holds the design.
## What it does
- Full-library ingest from Plex, no agent on the Plex host, no filesystem mounts
- Movies at item level, TV rolled up to **season** level
- Watch data from **Tautulli**, so plays by *every* account are counted and a play that
was abandoned after five minutes is distinguished from one that was finished — Plex's
own history reports those identically. Falls back to Plex session history if Tautulli
is unavailable, and says so rather than degrading silently
- Sort and filter on every metric; charts for size by library, additions over time,
finished vs. abandoned vs. never-opened by size, and size vs. last-watched
- A weighted reclaim score with live sliders, and grace rules so it never recommends
something you added last week
- Named, re-runnable saved views — *"unwatched, older than 2 years, over 10 GB"*,
*"two people started it and nobody finished it"*
- CSV export of any view
## Planned stack
Python + Flask, SQLite (WAL), vanilla JS front-end, single container deployed as a
Portainer stack behind Nginx Proxy Manager.
## Roadmap
- **v2** — two-stage quarantine-then-purge deletion, with authentication, a path
allowlist, and an audit log
- **v3** — Emby and Jellyfin support behind the existing `MediaProvider` abstraction
## Documentation
- [`docs/design.md`](docs/design.md) — the full software design