Connection hangs when download an image. no way to recover

[fcoulombe]

Describe the issue
Every 10 seconds, I download a new image from my photo library and the downloading of image hangs when using an account that is being shared a photo album.

This seems to work fine when I use a token and the address to my local plex server but I didn't want to use a token that gave full access to my plex server.
So I created a new user and shared my plex photo library to it.
Then I used MyPlexAccount to connect instead of just PlexServer(baseurl, token) which seems to work but after a while, downloading will hang and never finish.

I can't even ctrl-C to kill the job.

Code snipppets

account = MyPlexAccount(shared_username, shared_password)
token = account.authenticationToken
plex = account.resources()[0].connect() # returns a PlexServer instance
token = plex.createToken()
photoAlbums = plex.library.section('Photos')
photo = photoList[photoIndex]
media = photo.media[0]
part = media.parts[0]
downloadUrl = plex.url(part.key)
tempFilename = GetTempFilePath()
try:
 plexapi.utils.download(downloadUrl, token, tempFilename)
except:
 e = sys.exc_info()[0]
 print('Failed to download: %s at: %s for: %s' % (downloadUrl, tempFilename, e))
 raise

after a while, it stops. it never except, it never finishes...

baseurl = 'http://raspberrypi.local:32400'
token = 'some token looked up on my main account that i can't find equivalent on my shared account'
plex = PlexServer(baseurl, token)
photoAlbums = plex.library.section('Photos')
photo = photoList[photoIndex]
media = photo.media[0]
part = media.parts[0]
downloadUrl = plex.url(part.key)
tempFilename = GetTempFilePath()
try:
 plexapi.utils.download(downloadUrl, token, tempFilename)
except:
 e = sys.exc_info()[0]
 print('Failed to download: %s at: %s for: %s' % (downloadUrl, tempFilename, e))
 raise

This can work for days but I can only get the token to my main account which has full access to the server. I want to avoid this.

Expected behavior
Just don't hang.

Enviroment (please complete the following information):

• OS: [Windows]
• Plex version [4.20.2]
• Python Version [3.7.9]
• PlexAPI version [ 4.1.0]

Additional context
I can probably provide my full code with credentials since it's a "shared account". just not on public github.

[blacktwin]

Photos should have a proper download() method. I'll create a PR to add it.

[blacktwin]

The PR doesn't address your connection issue but it does add the download methods to Photos and Photoalbums.