Tagging and filtering Specific Persons - Questions | Kometa | Page 1

viscid barn Aug 25, 2025, 11:57 AM

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Hi guys

I'm using my Plex server since more than 5 years.
I do a lot of homevideos, which i have represented in a TV-Library.

As i have a lot of people in my movies, i want to "tag" the episode with specific persons. Goal then would be, that i can filter for "Person A" and find all the episodes of my tv-show, which the person is tagged.

I tried Director / Writer, but they can't be filtered. Also with Kometa they are not filterable to a collection, which is very sad.
Actor can be filtered, but they can't be pushed down to a single Episode, as they can be assigned with the avalonagentxml tool only to the complete TV-Show.

Just for context, i have my library splitet into decades, so a "tv-Show" is 2000-2009, Season is 2001 and all the episodes from 2001 are then in this Season.
I can't change that to Movies, as this is a perfect way to sort my over 300 Home-Videos.

I know with a change to movies, this would be working.
Tagging the MP4 with Artist in the mp3tag-tool is aso not working, probably because it's not a Movie...
Do you see any change to still have my structure with TV-Shows / Seasons / Episodes, and still filter to a specific person?

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lone flume Aug 25, 2025, 12:50 PM

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I tried Director / Writer, but they can't be filtered. Also with Kometa they are not filterable to a collection, which is very sad.
Actor can be filtered, but they can't be pushed down to a single Episode

Not sure where you're getting this idea, as all this is possible.

The defaults have collections based on all three of these things at the show level.

viscid barn Aug 25, 2025, 1:06 PM

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Hi

https://kometa.wiki/en/latest/files/builders/plex/overview/#plex-search-options
And when i start a manuall filter it comes an error:
director is not an vaild show filter attribute

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lone flume Aug 25, 2025, 1:07 PM

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What is the specific YAML you are using? If it were not possible to do this the defaults wouldn't work.

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Please provide a full log with any custom YAML.

viscid barn Aug 25, 2025, 1:09 PM

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📎 meta.log 📎 director.yml

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viscid barn Aug 25, 2025, 1:10 PM

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Hi, here the Meta-Log and my collections-yml, which i refer in the config.yml

lone flume Aug 25, 2025, 1:14 PM

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First, if you want this to act on episodes, you need to tell Kometa to do so:

collections:
  Omero-Episode-director:
    plex_all: true
    filters:
      director: Omero

viscid barn Aug 25, 2025, 1:18 PM

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what should i use instead?
I used plex_all, because this works great with filters, as i understood from the Wiki?

lone flume Aug 25, 2025, 1:19 PM

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The default is for builders to act on the show or movie level. If you want to apply them at a lower level you need to set the builder_level

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In a filter, "Director" is only valid for movies and episodes, since shows and seasons do not have directors.

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So if you want episodes directed by Omero:

collections:
  Omero-Episode-director:
    builder_level: episode
    plex_all: true
    filters:
      director: Omero

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This would probably be much faster:

collections:
  Omero-Episode-director:
    builder_level: episode
    plex_search:
      all:
        director: Omero

since it's faster to say "hey plex give me all the episodes directed by Omero" than "Hey plex give me all the episodes and I'll look at every one to see if it was directed by Omero"

viscid barn Aug 25, 2025, 1:31 PM

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lone flume This would probably be much faster: ```yaml collections: Omero-Episode-directo...

thanks 🙂
But when i use this yml, i get the error:
Collection Error: director plex_search attribute only works for movie libraries
Just that we understand the same, an Episode is a part of a Season of a TV-Show, correct?
Because on the above i just can't find then a episode, even if i have a lot of episodes, with Director name Omero

lone flume Aug 25, 2025, 1:32 PM

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Does the filter version work?

viscid barn Aug 25, 2025, 1:35 PM

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No, it only tells me, that no item couldn't be found

lone flume Aug 25, 2025, 2:20 PM

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As a test, running this yaml against test movie and TV libraries:

collections:
  # Show/movie
  director-search-movie:
    plex_search:
      all:
        director: Nicholas Meyer

  director-filter-movie:
    plex_all: true
    filters:
      director: Nicholas Meyer

  director-search-show:
    plex_search:
      all:
        director: Vince Gilligan

  director-filter-show:
    plex_all: true
    filters:
      director: Vince Gilligan

  writer-search-movie:
    plex_search:
      all:
        writer: Nicholas Meyer

  writer-filter-movie:
    plex_all: true
    filters:
      writer: Nicholas Meyer

  writer-search-show:
    plex_search:
      all:
        writer: Vince Gilligan

  writer-filter-show:
    plex_all: true
    filters:
      writer: Vince Gilligan

  actor-search-movie:
    plex_search:
      all:
        actor: Leonard Nimoy

  actor-filter-movie:
    plex_all: true
    filters:
      actor: Leonard Nimoy

  actor-search-show:
    plex_search:
      all:
        actor: Bryan Cranston

  actor-filter-show:
    plex_all: true
    filters:
      actor: Bryan Cranston

  # Season
  director-search-season:
    builder_level: season
    plex_search:
      type: season
      all:
        director: Vince Gilligan

  director-filter-season:
    builder_level: season
    plex_all: true
    filters:
      director: Vince Gilligan

  writer-search-season:
    builder_level: season
    plex_search:
      type: season
      all:
        writer: Vince Gilligan

  writer-filter-season:
    builder_level: season
    plex_all: true
    filters:
      writer: Vince Gilligan

  actor-search-season:
    builder_level: season
    plex_search:
      type: season
      all:
        actor: Bryan Cranston

  actor-filter-season:
    builder_level: season
    plex_all: true
    filters:
      actor: Bryan Cranston

  # Episode
  director-search-episode:
    builder_level: episode
    plex_search:
      type: episode
      all:
        director: Vince Gilligan

  director-filter-episode:
    builder_level: episode
    plex_all: true
    filters:
      director: Vince Gilligan

  writer-search-episode:
    builder_level: episode
    plex_search:
      type: episode
      all:
        writer: Vince Gilligan

  writer-filter-episode:
    builder_level: episode
    plex_all: true
    filters:
      writer: Vince Gilligan

  actor-search-episode:
    builder_level: episode
    plex_search:
      type: episode
      all:
        actor: Bryan Cranston

  actor-filter-episode:
    builder_level: episode
    plex_all: true
    filters:
      actor: Bryan Cranston

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results:

📎 message.txt

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I removed the stuff that obviosly doesn't work like all the show stuff in the movie library and vice versa

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I guess perhaps those filters and searches don't work consistently at lower levels.

viscid barn Aug 25, 2025, 2:51 PM

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i have the nearly same results, but on the director-filter-episode i have Vince xxx not found, but i added him manually to some episodes as a Director or even Writer
Thanks for your help, but that means that it's a unresolved issue at the moment.
i will try it again in some Months or years 😆
But thanks a lot for exploring that with me!

📎 message.txt

lone flume Aug 25, 2025, 2:54 PM

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I would probably test with names you know are in your library rather than adding the new level of setting a name. I just picked Vince since he wrote and directed many episodes of Breaking Bad, which is in that test library.

viscid barn Aug 25, 2025, 3:03 PM

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lone flume I would probably test with names you know are in your library rather than adding...

yes i will try that, and check also with the test-library, if i can get it to run 😄
thanks!

lone flume Aug 25, 2025, 3:04 PM

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The test-library should be pretty simple. Unpack, create libraries, point Plex at those folders.

viscid barn Aug 25, 2025, 3:05 PM

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already done that, i ran the collets from you to the test-library with the results above

lone flume Aug 25, 2025, 3:06 PM

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I took this:

check also with the test-library, if i can get it to run

To mean that you couldn't get the test libraries to run.

viscid barn Aug 25, 2025, 3:09 PM

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ah no, that was the easy part 🙂

fickle mapleBOT Aug 27, 2025, 1:39 PM

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viscid barn Aug 28, 2025, 11:24 AM

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Just an update, if anyone has the same problem, i found a solution...
You can exctract the Director / Writer from the Plex DB --> SELECT title, tags_director from metadata_items where tags_director LIKE '%DIRECTOR%'
I write it then in a YML and with e pythonscript i extract the title into a YML Config file for a colletion with Kometa 😄
A little bit more complicated, but this should work😄

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