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I'll start. Did you know you can run a headless version of JD2 on a raspberry pi? It's not the greatest thing in the world, but sometimes its nice to throw a bunch of links in there and go to sleep.

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[–] [email protected] 220 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You should check out Prowlarr, its like jackett, but integrates better into sonarr/radarr

[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Hey thanks for your work. QBT and Jackett are super stable and well done.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're doing gods work. Amazing how many people benefit from your efforts. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Made the reverse. Switched to prowlarr and keeping jackett if something does not work on prowlarr.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Qbit desktop thin client when? Lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not in the roadmap. You can run qBittorrent-nox (headless) with the web UI. It works really well with thousands of torrents.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are they all running on the Pi, or just the torrenting tools?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Everything is running on Pi. But I have Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB of ram. Actually I have Raspberry Pi 400, which is basically 4GB variant of Raspberry Pi 4, with slightly overclocked CPU and passive cooling, inside small keyboard, but I only got that because Raspberry Pi 4 was out of stock.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My 5¢, got a similar stack running fine on a Pi 4B 8GB (with Jellyfin instead of Plex). Just gotta make sure to direct play, it does not like transcoding too much, even with hw acceleration

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Transcoding is also turned off in my case. But I couldn't get used to Jellyfin. I tried, but I just couldn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's fair, never used Plex but I suppose it's more polished being a product and all. In my case, I read Plex requires an internet connection to work and I needed my media server to be available offline, so it was a deal-breaker

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Get Prowlarr instead of Jackett and then install sonarr/radarr too. No more manual searching at all!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It appears to be seedbox compatible. I don't use a seedbox though so I can't help you there :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Myanonamouse.net is an incredible private tracker for audiobooks that has semi-open sign ups. You just have to pass an interview.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What about private trackers? I very rarely touch public trackers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's called amd64 because AMD invented the x86-64 processor instruction set, it works both on Intel and AMD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

x86 are 32-bit applications.
amd64 are 64-bit applications.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

type uname -m in your terminal

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Did this a few days ago, total game changer.