Connecting Seedr to Plex via WebDAV

Plex is brilliant at organising and streaming a media library - but only if the files live somewhere Plex can reach. With Seedr's WebDAV support you can mount your cloud storage as a folder on your machine and add it to Plex like any local library. Your files stay in the cloud; Plex just reads them.

What you will need

• A Seedr account with WebDAV enabled (any paid plan).

• A machine running Plex Media Server (a PC, Mac, or NAS).

• A WebDAV mounting tool: built-in on macOS and Windows, or rclone / davfs2 on Linux.

Step 1: get your WebDAV credentials

In Seedr, open Settings and find the WebDAV section. Generate a WebDAV username and password - these are separate from your login so you can revoke them at any time. Copy the WebDAV server URL shown there; you will paste it into your operating system or rclone.

Step 2: mount Seedr as a drive

On Windows, use Map Network Drive and enter the WebDAV URL. On macOS, use Finder's Connect to Server (Command-K). On Linux, rclone is the most reliable option:

rclone config            # create a remote of type "webdav"
rclone mount seedr: ~/Seedr --vfs-cache-mode full

Once mounted, you will see your Seedr folders appear as a normal directory. Browsing them does not download anything - files only stream when something reads them.

Step 3: add the library to Plex

1. In Plex, click the plus next to Libraries and choose Movies or TV Shows.

2. Browse to your mounted Seedr folder as the media path.

3. Save and let Plex scan. It will match titles, fetch artwork, and build your library from the cloud files.

Getting smooth playback

For the best results, enable rclone's VFS cache so Plex can buffer and seek comfortably. If Plex tries to transcode, the work happens on your Plex server, not on Seedr - so a reasonably capable Plex host helps. Where the file is already in a Plex-friendly format, you get direct play and pristine quality.

The payoff: a Plex library that lives entirely in the cloud. Add a magnet to Seedr, and minutes later it shows up in Plex on your TV - no local storage spent, no manual downloading.