tautulli

A Dart client for the Tautulli API.

Installation

dart pub add tautulli

Or add manually to pubspec.yaml:

dependencies:
  tautulli: ^3.0.0

Quick Start

import 'package:tautulli/tautulli.dart';

void main() async {
  final client = TautulliClient(
    connection: const TautulliConnection(
      protocol: 'http',
      domain: '192.168.0.2:8181',
      apiKey: 'your_api_key',
    ),
  );

  try {
    final activity = await client.activity.getActivity();
    print('Streaming: ${activity.streamCount} sessions');

    final history = await client.history.getHistory(length: 10);
    for (final entry in history.data) {
      print('${entry.title} watched by ${entry.friendlyName}');
    }
  } on TautulliAuthException {
    print('Invalid API key or authorization required');
  } on TautulliConnectionException {
    print('Could not reach Tautulli server');
  } finally {
    client.close();
  }
}

Services

All API commands are accessible through namespaced service properties on TautulliClient:

Property	Description
client.activity	Current playback sessions
client.devices	Mobile device registration
client.exports	Export metadata and download exports
client.graphs	Time-series chart data
client.history	Watch history and home statistics
client.images	Image proxy URL construction
client.libraries	Library/section management and media info
client.logs	Tautulli and Plex log retrieval
client.media	Metadata, search, rating keys
client.network	GeoIP and WHOIS lookups
client.newsletters	Newsletter configuration and delivery
client.notifications	Notifier configuration and notification log
client.users	User management and statistics
client.api	API documentation endpoints
client.plex	Plex Media Server identity and status
client.tautulli	Tautulli settings, info, backups, and restart

Custom HTTP Client

Pass a custom http.Client for SSL certificate handling or testing:

import 'dart:io';
import 'package:http/io_client.dart';

// Self-signed certificate support (native platforms only)
final httpClient = HttpClient()
  ..badCertificateCallback = (cert, host, port) => allowedHosts.contains(host);

final client = TautulliClient(
  connection: const TautulliConnection(
    protocol: 'http',
    domain: '192.168.0.2:8181',
    apiKey: 'your_api_key',
  ),
  httpClient: IOClient(httpClient),
);

Native only. This example uses dart:io and IOClient, which don't exist on the web — see Platform Support below.

Client ownership. An httpClient you inject is yours to manage: client.close() will not close it. Close it yourself when you're done. When you don't pass one, the client creates its own and close() disposes it.

Platform Support

Runs on the Dart VM, Flutter (Android/iOS/desktop), server, and Flutter web / WASM. Two things differ on the web:

• Custom HTTP clients and self-signed certificates are native-only. dart:io, IOClient, and badCertificateCallback are unavailable on the web (the browser controls TLS), so self-signed certificates cannot be accepted and the default BrowserClient is used. Connection failures surface as TautulliConnectionException — the finer TautulliCertVerificationException mapping is native-only.
• CORS. With the default query-parameter auth, the client sends simple GET requests that work cross-origin against every server version. Request headers (opt-in ApiKeyLocation.header, or custom headers on TautulliConnection) make requests non-simple and trigger a CORS preflight that only Tautulli newer than v2.17.2 answers — on older servers, header auth and custom headers are unusable from the browser.

Security

By default the API key is sent as the apikey query parameter, which works on every server version. On Tautulli servers newer than v2.17.2 you can opt in to header auth — apiKeyLocation: ApiKeyLocation.header on the connection — which sends the key as an X-Api-Key header instead, keeping it out of URLs and therefore out of server access logs, proxy logs, and browser tooling. Older servers only read the parameter and reject header-only requests, so enable it only when the server is known to support it.

Two caveats regardless of mode: image URLs from buildImageUrl() always embed the key as a query parameter (an <img> tag cannot send headers), and you should use protocol: 'https' in production so the key and every response are encrypted in transit.

Dates

All model DateTime values are in UTC (they come from Unix epoch timestamps). Call .toLocal() before displaying them:

final entry = history.data.first;
print(entry.date?.toLocal());

Exception Handling

All exceptions extend the sealed TautulliException class:

Exception	Thrown when
TautulliConnectionException	Network unreachable or socket error
TautulliAuthException	HTTP 401 or "Authorization Required" response
TautulliInvalidApiKeyException	Tautulli returns "Invalid apikey"
TautulliServerException	Non-200, non-401 HTTP status
TautulliBadResponseException	Malformed JSON or unexpected response structure
TautulliTimeoutException	Request exceeds configured timeout
TautulliVersionException	Server rejects register_device for being below the requested min_version
TautulliCertExpiredException	TLS certificate has expired
TautulliCertVerificationException	TLS certificate verification failed
TautulliProtocolException	Protocol is not http or https
TautulliTerminateStreamException	Stream termination command failed

Testing

Inject a MockClient from package:http/testing.dart to unit-test code that calls Tautulli without making real network requests:

import 'package:http/testing.dart';
import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;
import 'package:tautulli/tautulli.dart';

final mockClient = MockClient((request) async {
  return http.Response(
    '{"response":{"result":"success","data":{"stream_count":2,"sessions":[]}}}',
    200,
  );
});

final client = TautulliClient(
  connection: const TautulliConnection(
    protocol: 'http',
    domain: '192.168.0.2:8181',
    apiKey: 'your_api_key',
  ),
  httpClient: mockClient,
);

API Reference

All commands are documented in the Tautulli API Reference.

• Last audited against: v2.17.2

The client imposes no server-version floor. importConfig() and importDatabase() are not implemented and throw UnimplementedError.

License

GPL-3.0-or-later