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.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    8·
    4 months ago

    youll have the best luck by adding a nzb indexer… ive enjoyed nzbgeek

    its cheap and has decreased my time-to-mediacenter drastically… the public torrent indexers kinda pale in comparison.

    i like to have them all in there, but the usenet/nzb stuff seems to flow the fastest as theres generally more likely a matching file of %quality.

    • zewm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      The downside is that you also have to pay for a Usenet host. So someone trying to just go the $0 cost route, this wouldn’t apply to.

  • muxika@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 months 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.

  • howmuch@reddthat.comEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Having a few public indexers shouldn’t hurt. However you probably don’t want to add a ton otherwise you will likely end up being overloaded by duplicates.

    But really you should invest in getting into private trackers. Even an entry to mid-tier tracker will get you far better and more reliable results than public. Also the content will generally be much better seeded and more reliable.

  • B0NK3RS@lazysoci.alEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    I would start by adding a couple more indexers but don’t go overboard. 3 or 4 should be good and then swap them out as needed. Also something to note is make sure you aren’t just “hit n run” on everything and seed properly.

  • warbond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months 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.

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    4 months 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.