manage/backend

Backend - Media Library Viewer API

FastAPI backend serving the REST API for Jellyfin media browsing, SSH file inspection, and server monitoring.

Project structure

backend/
├── pyproject.toml
├── README.md
├── src/
│   └── media_library_viewer_api/
│       ├── __init__.py
│       ├── main.py              # FastAPI app entrypoint
│       ├── config.py            # pydantic-settings config
│       ├── dependencies.py      # Dependency injection
│       ├── path_utils.py        # Jellyfin→SSH path resolution
│       ├── jobs.py              # Job templates
│       ├── utils.py             # Formatting helpers
│       ├── routers/
│       │   ├── dashboard.py
│       │   ├── monitoring.py
│       │   ├── media.py
│       │   ├── files.py
│       │   └── jobs.py
│       ├── clients/
│       │   ├── jellyfin.py
│       │   ├── resources.py
│       │   └── ssh.py
│       ├── domain/
│       │   └── media.py
│       └── services/
│           └── media_index.py
└── tests/

Setup

cd backend
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e '.[dev]'

Configuration

Create a .env file in the project root (or set environment variables):

JELLYFIN_URL=https://jellyfin.example.com
JELLYFIN_API_KEY=your-api-key
JELLYFIN_USER_ID=

SSH_HOST=media-server.example.com
SSH_USERNAME=username
SSH_PORT=22
SSH_KEY_FILENAME=/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa
SSH_PASSWORD=

REMOTE_MEDIA_ROOT=/srv/media
REMOTE_PATH_PREFIX=

Running

cd backend
uvicorn media_library_viewer_api.main:app --reload --port 8000

Or with PYTHONPATH if not installed:

PYTHONPATH=src uvicorn media_library_viewer_api.main:app --reload --port 8000

API docs available at: http://localhost:8000/docs

API Endpoints

• GET /api/dashboard/counts — Movie/series/episode totals
• GET /api/dashboard/libraries — Per-library breakdown
• GET /api/dashboard/now-playing — Active playback sessions
• GET /api/monitoring/status — Collector status
• GET /api/monitoring/metrics — Resource samples (last hour)
• GET /api/monitoring/disk — Disk space
• POST /api/monitoring/start|stop|restart — Collector controls
• GET /api/monitoring/diagnostics — Collector debug info
• GET /api/media/status — Index status
• POST /api/media/build — Rebuild index
• GET /api/media/query — Query with filters/sort/pagination
• GET /api/files/list?path= — Directory listing
• GET /api/files/ffprobe?path= — ffprobe JSON
• GET /api/files/stat?path= — stat output
• GET /api/files/resolve-path?path= — Path resolution
• GET /api/jobs/templates — Available jobs
• POST /api/jobs/run — Execute a job