Create collection of media not belonging to any collection

[rose terrace]

Hey!

My friends are requesting movies/series by adding medias to their own Trakt list, which are monitored by radarr/sonarr. I did setup Kometa so that each of my friend trakt list results in a collection on Plex. I got it working.

The issue I'm having is that as a last step for Kometa I want it to create a collection of all medias which were not requested via a Trakt list. I will use it as a "To be deleted" collection. I managed to implement it by using a combination of plex_search and collection.not, but I'm not sure it's the proper way because Kometa throws an error if any collection doesn't exist (my friend emptied his trakt list).

I would appreciate any help.. thanks!

  CollectionA:
    trakt_list: https://trakt.tv/users/[redacted]
    sync_mode: sync
  CollectionB:
    trakt_list: https://trakt.tv/users/[redacted]
    sync_mode: sync
  CollectionC:
    trakt_list: https://trakt.tv/users/[redacted]
    sync_mode: sync
  CollectionD:
    trakt_list: 
        - https://trakt.tv/users/[redacted]
        - https://trakt.tv/users/[redacted]
    sync_mode: sync
  CollectionE:
    trakt_list: https://trakt.tv/users/[redacted]
    sync_mode: sync
  CollectionF:
    trakt_list: https://trakt.tv/users/[redacted]
    sync_mode: sync
  CollectionG:
    plex_search:
        all:
            collection.not: CollectionA, CollectionB, CollectionC, CollectionD, CollectionE, CollectionF
    item_radarr_tag.sync: orphan
    sync_mode: sync

The error will then be:

Options: ['CollectionB', 'CollectionC', 'CollectionD', 'CollectionE', 'CollectionF']

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[cosmic acorn]

so the easiest way around your error is to use validate: false

  CollectionG:
    validate: false      # << HERE
    plex_search:
        all:
            collection.not: CollectionA, CollectionB, CollectionC, CollectionD, CollectionE, CollectionF
    item_radarr_tag.sync: orphan
    sync_mode: sync

[rose terrace]

@cosmic acorn "validate attribute not supported"

   validate: false
   plex_search:
       all:
           collection.not: CollectionA, CollectionB, CollectionC, CollectionD, CollectionE, CollectionF
   item_radarr_tag.sync: orphan
   sync_mode: sync```

[cosmic acorn]

oh sorry I think it goes within the plex search

put it directly above the all

[rose terrace]

ok, I don't have the "validate attribute not supported" anymore, but I'm back to "Plex Error: collection: CollectionA not found"

or should I move "validate" to "CollectionA" (the one causing the issue because it doesn't exist)?

[cosmic acorn]

No

[proper ferry]

You could maybe do this as a filter rather than a search, since a filter doesn't care if the option is actually available in Plex the way that a Plex search does.

I can't recall if one can filter on a collection, though.

[cosmic acorn]

yes

collections:
  Bientôt Supprimés:
    plex_all: true
    filters:
      collection.not: CollectionA, CollectionB, CollectionC, CollectionD, CollectionE, CollectionF
    item_radarr_tag.sync: orphan
    sync_mode: sync

[rose terrace]

switched to plex_all and filters as you decribed, but it results in:
Traceback issue related to the same collection not existing

[rose terrace]

I did remove the troublesome collection from the collection.not at the moment, and I will ask my friends to keep at least one movie/serie in their list until I figure that out. It shouldn't be a frequent scenario, so it gives me some time to get more familiar with Kometa and find a solution. Should I close this thread?

[steep rivet]

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