Jellyfin SDK for Python – high-level wrapper around the Jellyfin API

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Hey HN, I’ve been working on a new Python SDK for Jellyfin ( https://jellyfin.org/ ). The official Python client jellyfin-apiclient-python ( https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-apiclient-python ) is pretty much unmaintained, and I kept running into rough edges (missing exceptions, mismatched info/config, no playlist support, etc.). So I built a new library: jellyfin-sdk ( https://github.com/webysther/jellyfin-sdk-python ). It’s basically a high-level wrapper on top of OpenAPI-generated bindings, with some nicer patterns (method chaining, JSONPath, inversion of control). A few things it does differently: - Target specific Jellyfin server versions (avoid breakage when APIs change) - Handle multiple servers (different versions, same client) - Drop-in replacement for the legacy client, but with fixes - Debug mode that prints every request as `curl` (super useful when Jellyfin acts weird) Install: pip install jellyfin-sdk Quick example: import jellyfin, os api = jellyfin.api(os.getenv("URL"), os.getenv("API_KEY")) print(api.system.info.version, api.system.info.server_name) Docs: https://webysther.github.io/jellyfin-sdk-python.github.io/sd... GitHub: https://github.com/webysther/jellyfin-sdk-python I’d love feedback — especially from anyone running Jellyfin at home and hacking around with its API.

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