🦃 Improvements, and adds helper script for complex scenarios and enhances Readme

[1RedOne]

Hi folks,

Super happy to find this awesome tool. I found that some users of Plex have complex Libraries spanning multiple directories and that it was tricky to use the PlexParse script as is so I made a couple of tweaks that helped me out and will hopefully be very useful to others in the future as well!

Present Tooling Enhancements

I love to improve a community tool when I get the chance, so I did the following:

• Converted the script into distinct functions
• Added Parameters so the user can provide any named input library file and any output file
• Added some logging

After doing that, I then found it was a lot of work to scan through XML files by hand so I added a new helper function called Invoke-PlexParseHelper, this does the following:

New Function Invoke-PlexParseHelper

The user can provide a plex URL, or else it will default to the wellknown localhost server. First, it will contact a server, retrieve a human readable list of all sections and their corresponding IDs, then prompt the user to select the section they'd like to parse to CSV. This is accomplished with a text base UI. It will also throw out with a helpful error if unable to load a library.

Next the function will enumerate all Location directories that make up the Plex Section, and then call Invoke-PlexParse to convert each XML table into usable .csv files, individually named. Excellent for batch operation.

Updated Readme

Finally I added a new section outlining how to use the new function. Thanks folks and Happy Thanksgiving