Sharing what you have

Contributing needs an Upload token set in the plugin's settings (see Installing the plugin) — everything below is disabled without one.

Push local subs

On a scene page that already has sidecar subtitle files on disk, a Push local subs button appears next to Find subtitles. Clicking it opens a small form:

• Pick all files (the default), each pushed with the kind its filename already implies, or pick one specific file, which reveals a kind picker — pre-set from the filename, with other… adding a short label field.
• Click Push.

The panel reports back what happened: uploaded, already there, or skipped. A file named without a language suffix (just <stem>.srt) is never pushed, since the server has no language to file it under.

Each file's kind is normally read from a Plex/Emby-style filename suffix — .en.sdh.srt, .en.cc.srt, .en.forced.srt — and falls back to default when there's no suffix at all.

Push subtitles (the library-wide task)

Settings → Tasks → Plugin tasks → Push subtitles uploads every sidecar subtitle in your library in one run — Push subtitles (dry run) reports what it would upload first, without needing a token. Safe to re-run: an identical file already on the server comes back as a duplicate rather than a second copy.

What a push actually sends

Pushing a subtitle sends the subtitle text itself, the scene's fingerprints (oshash, phash, duration), and whatever name metadata Stash has for the scene — title, filename stem, date, studio, performers, and any stash-box ids. That's what later lets someone else's copy of the same scene, with no phash of its own, still be found by name.

Send scene details (no subtitle at all)

If your library is well curated but you have nothing to actually contribute for a scene, there's a separate answer: the Send scene details button (and the Contribute scene details / Contribute scene details (dry run) tasks) tells the server what a scene is — title, date, studio, performers, stash-box ids — without uploading anything. Unlike a push, your filename is deliberately never sent here: this records what the scene is, not what your file is called.

What never leaves your machine

Nothing is ever sent automatically, on either path — not on a download, not on a search. And the video file itself is never uploaded or read by the server at all: only its fingerprint and duration, which Stash already computed, ever leave your machine.