[GAZ082]

Hi there. The folowing code just gets me all XBMC parameters instead of movies, what am i missing?

PHP Code:

import requests
import json


url = "http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc"
headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}

payload = {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.GetMovies", "params": { "filter": {"field": "playcount", "operator": "is", "value": "0"}, "limits": { "start" : 0, "end": 75 }, "properties" : ["art", "rating", "thumbnail", "playcount", "file"], "sort": { "order": "ascending", "method": "label", "ignorearticle": 'true' } }, "id": "libMovies"}

    
r = requests.get(url, params=payload, headers=headers);
print(r.json()); 


[Montellese]

You need to use HTTP POST or pass the JSONRPC request with the "request" parameter.

[jack.ingoldsby]

Hi, Did you get this to work? Trying to do same thing
Thanks

[markusloffler]

Haven't tried it myself, but looks promising: https://github.com/jcsaaddupuy/python-xbmc

[GAZ082]

You need to use HTTP POST or pass the JSONRPC request with the "request" parameter.

Thank you Montellese for replying. I'm back from a quick 10 days vacation. I did a POST request and got a parse error.

Perhaps Python is playing with me?

Code:

import requests
import json


url = "http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc";
headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'};

payload = {"jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "method": "VideoLibrary.GetMovies",
           "params": {"filter": {"field": "playcount", "operator": "is", "value": "0"},
                      "limits": { "start" : 0, "end": 75 },
                      "properties" : ["art", "rating", "thumbnail", "playcount", "file"],
                      "sort": { "order": "ascending", "method": "label", "ignorearticle": 'true' } },
           "id": "libMovies"};


r = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers=headers);

print(r.json());

Returns:

Code:

{'jsonrpc': '2.0', 'id': None, 'error': {'code': -32700, 'message': 'Parse error.'}}

[Martijn]

your payload is invalid.

use http://jsonlint.com/ to validate

[GAZ082]

Just removed the single quotes on 'true' and replaced them by double quotes, was a typo, still getting the parse error.

The thing is, the same thing in NodeJS works.

Edit:

mmmh, checked how the url is assembled by Python Requests and got:

Code:

http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc?jsonrpc=2.0&id=libMovies&params=sort&params=properties&params=filter&params=limits&method=VideoLibrary.GetMovies

Looks like somehow the parameters are not passed by Requests.

[Montellese]

Just removed the single quotes on 'true' and replaced them by double quotes, was a typo, still getting the parse error.

There are no quotes of any kind around true/false.

Code:

http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc?jsonrpc=2.0&id=libMovies&params=sort&params=properties&params=filter&params=limits&method=VideoLibrary.GetMovies

Looks like somehow the parameters are not passed by Requests.

Yup that looks completely wrong.

[__B__]

Instead of using payload as a Python dictionary:

python:
payload = { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.Scan", "id": "mybash"}

Use it as a single string:

python:
payload = '{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.Scan", "id": "mybash"}'

Now the parse error is gone. I know this post is old, but maybe someone with a similar problem will benefit from it.