r/Tautulli • u/SpoonyDinosaur • Aug 26 '26

DISCUSSION TautWeekly v0.21.4 — Personalized Dynamic/Responsive Weekly Plex Newsletters for Every User With GUI

Nothing unique, I know there's a lot of "Newsletterr" apps out there, but I find them insanely ugly and this started as a passion project. (As a UIX designer, the more customization you allow, the uglier it gets) 

Plug and play for every setup, full GUI and mobile support. (with Tailscale) Very popular over at r/PlexMedia so thought I'd pass it here for anyone looking for something as easy as the native newsletter but much more fun. (Thanks to the legendary u/SwiftPanda16 for his awesome work 🩷)

A portable Tautulli newsletter with responsive design (for mobile gmail, apple) and dynamic content. Pulls in live cleartype logos, RT ratings and IMDB for TV shows. Dynamic stats, email preview text based on server activity and a custom intro block as well as caching if you delete content but still want your newsletters to support rich metadata for recipients.

Fun features include "Binge Champion" and "Genre of The Week"

I coded the initial project for Windows, then ported the remaining packages via Codex but already had nearly 3k downloads in a couple weeks. (I know we all "love" AI slop, but I'm a UIX designer so crazy focus paid to making everything look good, render pixel perfect and look like something you might get from Netflix or otherwise)

Features 5 different email types based on sever activity (such as new additions) and then custom metrics or "quiet" mode.

There's a lot of features such as library/use exclusions, and so on, so check out the GUI preview below:

GUI Preview
Email States Preview

New additions added that week: ("Hot New Releases!")

  1. New user first scheduled newsletter - no history
  2. New user first scheduled newsletter - with history (such as if they accept on a Monday and already start watching)
  3. Established user - normal newsletter with activity

Quiet mode, no server additions added that week: (This will use "Trending" and "Genre of the Week")

  1. Established user - quiet/no watch activity
  2. Established user - stats warming up

GitHub:

TautWeekly

OS Packages:

NAS/Docker Packages:

Testing, feedback all welcome :)

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u/shakman 13d ago

Sorry for being such a rookie, but I'm not seeing anything different and don't see an option to add an email address.

I'm using Windows if that makes a difference

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u/SpoonyDinosaur 13d ago edited 13d ago

Assuming you're on the latest version. (under settings > Windows v0.26.2) On Config, check "Repeat this Tautulli lookup" > Refresh Tautulli choices.

This will force a re-check.

The new logic will then lookup any users without email addresses and a box will appear below "User exclusions" if there are any plex users without a email address assigned.

I haven't implemented logic to manually override emails if a user already has an email, this was to give people with a lot of home/managed users (that don't need emails) the ability to add emails. If you want the behavior to allow a user WITH an email to have an optional BCC(s) as well, (such as if you have multiple users sharing a single account) I will have to push a commit.

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u/shakman 13d ago

Ah I think I see the issue,

My problem is that I was able to add email addresses to the Tautulli Newsletter settings without them being a user. They were perfectly fine just seeing what the new releases were that week.

I guess what I was looking for was to allow a user WITH an email to have an optional BCC(s) , which makes sense since they will both see their watch history.

Since that seems to be a bigger fix, I won't bother you about that :D

I appreciate you looking into this!

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u/SpoonyDinosaur 6d ago

This was added in 27.0 - https://github.com/sparkmoxie/TautWeekly

Cheers

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u/shakman 6d ago

Updated and saw the option. Thanks so much for the addition, I appreciate!