Unfortunately, I no longer have the time to maintain Gaps and it is no longer under active development.
Gaps searches through your Plex Server for all movies, then queries for known movies in the same collection. If those movies don't exist in your library, Gaps will recommend getting those movies, legally of course.
Gaps is a FOSS application. An example of Gaps running would be having a copy of 'Alien (1979)' and Gaps recommending 'Aliens (1986)' and 'Alien³ (1992)' to be added to your collection.
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.
Windows Users check out the Wiki to get setup
What things you need to install the software and how to install them.
Gaps can run in Docker. If you choose to run this way, you'll need a Docker environment installed. Docker has a good write up on installing Docker CE. Check it out here. Once you get docker up and running
Gaps can run as an exe on Windows. GapsAsJar can be found on the releases page. Gaps-{version}.zip.
With Docker installed, you'll need to now pull down the latest Gaps image. The Gaps image is hosted here. To pull the image, run the following command in a terminal
If you are running an x86 machine, use the following commands. Check out the wikis for how to build ARM v8, ARM v7, or RISC.
docker pull housewrecker/gaps:latest
If you are running an ARM machine, use this command.
docker pull housewrecker/gaps:arm-latest
With the image pulled, now you can run the container.
Note: 8484 is used internally by gaps. Externally, any available host port can be used. This can be configured by changing -p {valid port number}:8484
docker run -d -p 8484:8484 --name mygaps --expose 32400 -v /{localFolder}/gaps:/usr/data housewrecker/gaps:latest
Open your browser and navigate to, http://{IP_ADDRESS}:8484
If everything worked, you will be greeted by the gaps home page.
_Note: If you would like to set a base URL, use the variable BASE_URL and set the value you would like when running in Docker. Gaps on UNRAID has a BASE_URL variable in the template. If using a base URL, navigate to http://{IP_ADDRESS}:8484/BASE_URL
Click the Settings tab to set up Gaps.
First, you need to enter your The Movie Database (TMDB) API Key. As noted on the page, to use Gaps, you'll need a MovieDB API key. Navigate over to The Movie DB, create an account, and make an API Key. Copy that key and paste it below.
With your TMDB key added, now you need to configure the information to connect to Plex.
Click the Test button to confirm your key works.
Click the Save button to add your key.
Click the Plex tab to set up Gaps.
Now you'll need to configure how to connect Gaps to Plex. This includes three main things: the host/IP address of Plex, the port Plex uses, and your personal Plex Token.
The host/IP address and port are the same ones you use to connect to Plex via the web. It could look something like this
https://localhost:32400/web/index.html
Or
https://127.0.0.1:32400/web/index.html
If Plex and Gaps are both running in the same Docker, you may need to use the IP address on the local network. Example
https://192.168.1.10:32400/web/index.html
So, in the first case, the host is localhost and the port 32400. In the second case, the host is 127.0.0.1 with the same port.
Lastly, you'll need to get your personal Plex Token. If you do not know already it's easy to find. Plex has a great writeup here about how to find your token.
Click the Test button to confirm your Plex server configuration works.
Click the Save button to add your Plex server.
Note: Right now only searching via Plex is working. In time, I'll add back in searching by folder.
Increase the timeout if Plex connection is on a remote network and timeouts are occurring.
Click the Libraries tab to set up Gaps.
If you have more than one Movie Library or Plex Server, the dropdown lets you pick the Server and Library to search from.
Click the Search button to find your Plex Movies.
Gaps will display the movies found in the Plex Server Library.
Note: Rerun this step for each server you want Gaps to find the missing movies in.
Click the Recommended tab to set up Gaps.
Once you've started searching, the movies will start populating on the final page.
Click the Search button to find your missing movies.
For large libraries, this can take a while to run. The results are stored and only need to be rerun when Plex updates. Missing movies are added as found. Do not navigate away. Gaps will still run, but you'll have to check logs to know when it is complete. It is currently easier to just leave the page open. Fixes for this are coming soon.
Once you've completed at least one search of your plex libraries, you can then view and use the output as RSS.
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This project would not be possible without the support by these amazing folks. Become a sponsor or backer to help us out!
- @JasonHHouse - Idea & Initial work
- @Knoxie Developer, testing, and support
- Inspiration
- I'm an avid movie watcher and this is a missing feature from Plex