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stop manually browsing torrent sites! You're wasting your time.
Download qBittorrent. Download Jackett. Configure Jackett to work inside qBittorrent. You now have a way to search hundreds of trackers all at once within seconds and find literally anything you want.
You should check out Prowlarr, its like jackett, but integrates better into sonarr/radarr
Prowlarr has a prettier UI but the torrent sites they support are maintained by Jackett. It noone gives credit, at some point Jackett won't be maintained and Prowlar neither.
Disclaimer: I'm qBittorrent, Jackett, Flaresolverr and Bazarr developer.
Hey thanks for your work. QBT and Jackett are super stable and well done.
Damn, I'm huge fan of yours. Using qBbittorent, Jacket, Flarsolverr and Bazarr in docker. Thanks for your work.
But I never managed to get Jackett plugin to work x)
https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/How-to-configure-Jackett-plugin
It has limitations, but qBittorrent is used by 40M users aprox and we are only 3-5 active developers. Managing the open issues don't let us time to work on new features...
Thanks for the link. I've been following these instructions from start. Looks like it's searching for a while, but ends up saying "Jackett: connection error getting indexer list!"
Who needs new features when the most important ones are working perfectly anyway :)
I dont need a fancy UI for jackett since it's only needed for the API.
Prowlarr does have the ability to do a search of all indexers including usenet, combined into one results list, which is very nice for finding rare or niche things outside of Sonarr/Radarr.
So I have both installed and configured, but only ever use prowlarr for manual searches cause jackett is working and i'm too lazy to change all my settings in my 6 separate ARR instances.
Made the reverse. Switched to prowlarr and keeping jackett if something does not work on prowlarr.
Qbit desktop thin client when? Lol
It's not in the roadmap. You can run qBittorrent-nox (headless) with the web UI. It works really well with thousands of torrents.
Yeah, just wish there was one. The web UI is very clunky so I use Flood but that has its own quirks. Would be cool though, would bring me back to when I used Deluge!
I have all of these programs running on raspberry pi, including Flood (mobile friendly UI for qBittorrent, also supports Deluge), and plex media server. It can't be easier to watch movies and tv shows that way.
I've tried just about every type of automated system Sonarr, Radarr fully integrated with usenet and my libraries etc.
After a while I realised I quite enjoy doing things manually. I get to vet the content a little before I grab it, a bit like going to the video store.
I mean all of them have manual searches. I don't use automatic grabbing either because I'm just too paranoid about it grabbing a shit release, but I still use them for organizing and it's nice to just add a movie and get a list of releases to pick from.
As long as you have your quality profiles set up correctly they very rarely grab a bad release, I've maybe had to throw out 3 movies and one season of anime it grabbed during the past year I've been using a full *arr setup combined with jellyfin and jellyseerr.
As I said it's mostly paranoia. I know it works fine with movies and shows, but anime is definitely one thing I actually do not trust it to grab and import automatically. Mostly due to shit anime release naming conventions. Some trackers insist on only using romanized names making it impossible to find automatically and in my experience sonarr can't import anime seasons due to not having
S01E01in filenames. Even single episode search doesn't work for this reason.Anime is my biggest use case, and it's worked great for me.
If you set the series to "Anime" it should use both episode number and absolute numbering when searching for anime. It's certainly not perfect but it gets the job done most of the time.
This is why I don't use any of the *arrs. 90 percent of what I pirate is anime or music which they don't work well with at all.
And generally it grabbing a bad release is due to it being uploaded on a tracker with little moderation. I tend to blacklist a site once this happens more than once or twice.
What particular component is doing your organizing for you? I do struggle with this at times. THAT is a massive amount of manual labour when I let it get out of control.
Automatically? Creating folders, moving files into said folder and renaming files in similar pattern after download is completed. It also provides a nice overview of all media with ability to filter and sort like by size on disk etc.
I only auto-dl with sonarr for anime and groups I know like SubsPlease, EraiRaws etc.
Movies are capped to FHD-BD and remuxes are only downloaded manually.
Also because I use a seedbox my storage quota is usually 99% in use and filling it 100% up causes me issues so I am usually paranoid about 1. the quality and 2. what size is being downloaded
Jackett isn't automated, it's just a search tool. You can open any search result in-browser if you wish to double check it. I do it all the time
Get Prowlarr instead of Jackett and then install sonarr/radarr too. No more manual searching at all!
Can you use this with a seedbox? I don't use qBittorrent, and haven't looked into the *arr apps - I just use torrent files (or magnet links) with ruTorrent... I don't mind adding the torrents/magnets manually (or uploading them to be scanned). I have more content than I can keep up with watching, so the *arr apps seem like overkill, but improving the torrent sites process would be nice...
(If anybody has a tutorial/recommendation for the *arr sites with a seedbox, I'm interested in reading that too, but it looks like more than I need. Maybe not though, IDK.)
my seedbox provider (seedhost.eu) supports that stuff out of the box I think (you do have to turn it off on). I just use ruTorrent as well though.
It appears to be seedbox compatible. I don't use a seedbox though so I can't help you there :)
Oh wow this sounds pretty often. From time to time I find it hard locate some file. Especially old audiobooks. Would this be a good way to do that? And do you know a mobile equivalent?
It turns out if you have a library card you can get tons of free audiobooks. I don't think it counts as piracy but there are other ways to get free books.
I doubt you can find anything equivalent on mobile.
I don't torrent audiobooks often, but on the rare occasion that I have I've used Jackett to find them. with the right trackers, you can find anything.
I was looking into this like last week but paused it because I'm an idiot who can't figure out which package to grab off their git lol. I think it is amdx64 but I have intel everything, I know it isn't arm though.
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uname -min your terminalIt's called amd64 because AMD invented the x86-64 processor instruction set, it works both on Intel and AMD
Thank you! I'm just not used to seeing things named like that, it's usually just x86 in my experience for some reason so I wasn't sure, and had nobody to ask haha. Thank you, setting that up immanently!
What about private trackers? I very rarely touch public trackers
Jackett supports private trackers.
It doesn't automatically search every tracker ever. You have to manually add trackers to use(jackett provides a list of them so adding one is easy). Even public ones. For private trackers you have to provide username/password or some authorization token if the tracker uses something like that.
Yeah, pretty much all trackers worth using are supported. I like to use it for manual searches, real useful when you are member of multiple trackers
Sometimes it's cool to browse sites for FL alone.
When TorrentDB existed I liked zo browse the current hot section just to download stuff and 1. profit from it being FL and 2. increasing my ratio.
Other times I got a fee good recommendations because I was curious why so many downloaded something
Thank you for this. I set this up yesterday and started combing through my list of things that I've wanted to download but couldn't find even on my private trackers. I wish I knew about this sooner!
Did this a few days ago, total game changer.
As a person who is not an advanced pirate, I'm reading the Jackett page and I have no idea what it is or how it works.