I had a small media library for myself, and wanted to automate it a bit more, so implemented arr stack (prowlarr, radarr, lidarr), it seems to work but I’m not sure how to pick indexers. I have no experience with it, and I initially just picked a public one, but it barely ever seems to download something.

I’m a bit confused about it, should i just pick as many as I can? Or join a private one? But no idea where to start there.

Any advice or push in the right direction would be appreciated.

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    I use Prowlarr with Flaresolverr.

    Setup the Flaresolverr indexer proxy in Prowlarr:
    - Tags: flaresolverr
    - Host: http://flaresolverr:8191/ (or whatever host+port your flaresolverr

    And then I use these:
    - 1337x (Add Tags: flaresolverr)
    - TorrentDownload
    - Knaben

    It’s not the best and Knaben is mostly just TPB + Rutracker. But this setup gets me everything I need. Everything wrong is filtered as I made my setup look for HEVC with specific bit rate ranges. Invalid file extensions are filtered out.

    For actual downloading I use RDT Client with the TorBox debrid service.

    Sometimes some indexing services time out but I’ll get the content later.

    In my experience, with this setup, I really don’t need Usenet or private torrent trackers.

  • muxika@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    Since you’re using prowlarr, I recommend adding as many as you can. You’ll get some stall, but that’s the price you (don’t) pay. If you have the time, choose several baseurls for the failing indexers so you can get as many as possible.

  • warbond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    I started by picking a lot of indexers, trying to cover my bases, but every search would take forever because it sifts through every match to find the best one for your criteria. In the end I pared it down to just to just a couple big ones that even I’ve heard of and it’s been fine 98% of the time.

    I’ve always heard the private indexers are best, but I don’t have experience with them.

  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    Indexers and downloaders are distinct for newsgroups.

    Public indexers are not good for Linux isos, you need a paid service now. They’re cheap and well worth it. Easynews and nzbgeek are good ones.

    • meathappening@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      3 days ago

      Paying to pirate things is wild. You absolutely don’t need to pay for anything. Get on private trackers, which have literally existed for decades at this point.

      • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I used to do that until about 2015.

        Even private trackers don’t come close to the coverage of newsgroups. Plus, nzb has the concept of releases, so you don’t have to guess at the quality.

        I don’t have an issue with paying, I have an issue with paying for something I don’t want.