Delete all playlists from Plex using PlexAPI

plexapi_delete_playlists.py

"""
Delete all playlists from Plex using PlexAPI

https://github.com/mjs7231/python-plexapi
"""

from plexapi.server import PlexServer
import requests

baseurl = 'http://localhost:32400'
token = 'XXXXXXXX'
plex = PlexServer(baseurl, token)

tmp_lst = []


for playlist in plex.playlists():
    tmp = playlist.key
    split = tmp.split('/playlists/')
    tmp_lst += [split[1]]

for i in tmp_lst:
    try:
        r = requests.delete('{}/playlists/{}?X-Plex-Token={}'.format(baseurl,i,token))
        print(r)

    except Exception as e:
        print e

I know this is years late, but here's a quicker way..

delete everything after line 13 and replace it with..

for i in plex.playlists():
    requests.delete(baseurl + i.key + '?X-Plex-Token=' + token)

I know this is old, but I tried running this in Python3, but it doesn't seem to be working. I have about 180K playlists that I need to delete. Is this still the best option?

Why do you have 180k playlists?.... Nevermind. You need to provide more details other than "doesn't work". What isn't working? What is the error message that you're seeing?

This is a very old Plex server, and there was an issue a long time ago where Kodi created hundreds of thousands of playlists when you tried to connect it to plex. And the script did work! Sorry, I just had to let it run for several hours.