Has anyone used this? I haven’t seen it recommended before in the typical arr stack and it seems like its infinitely more useful for those who are trying to easily maintain ratio on private trackers.
Interesting - it would be even more interesting if they provided some metrics as to how much time is being saved compared to RSS.
I was reading through the docs and it seems like for private trackers they are actively monitoring the IRC channel for announcements so you can grab new files within seconds of them being active where if I remember correctly my setup for RSS feed monitoring is only doing a new query every 5-10min if not longer.
Very cool, I’ll do some digging myself!
That’s correct. The fastest way to get into the swarm is irc announcements, faster than going on the site or RSS. For most places, it is best to do 10 minute RSS intervals so you don’t get banned.
Really only applies to private trackers though, I can think of any publics that even have irc.
I use it. I tried to get some freeleech items to help with ratio, but, by the time I downloaded them (for any that worked), I would not be getting much seeding credit. And the items that didn’t work, I’d sometimes have to zap because they wouldn’t download anything so they didn’t count as me making them available.
I still have it up, but I don’t really know why.
I currently have an *arr suite consisting of Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr that’s connected to my sabNZBd. i don’t use torrents at all (germany here, it’s super dangerous).
What benefit would this add to my setup? As far as i can see this is more useful for torrent users (because of the irc vs rss tracking) but in my case it appears not beneficial. Am i missing something ?
Other than that, obviously gorgeous UI, impressive feature list and very good Github page.
I mostly use Usenet as well and that was part of the reason for me posting this. If your happy with Prowlarr then keep using it. I still use nzbhydra2 😅.
Used it quite a bit, and I overall like it, have earned a couple of TB upload because of it.
It’s a great replacement for autodl-irssi and makes creating filters really really easy. I have a really simple setup: irc announcements -> autobrr -> qbittorrent. Gets what I need seconds after the announcement and helps buffer really easily.
Autobrr’s qbittorrent functionality is pretty sweet as well, it can keep reannouncing until the torrent is registered / recognised by the tracker, and you can set custom layouts per filter.
With a bit of filter / release group tweaking, it’s a great way to build buffer.
I use it, yeah. It works great for some trackers, and not at all for others. I also sometimes had to spend some time messing with the IRC settings for some. But I’ve built up quite the ratio for the sites that it works on.
