To be clear, this is just a joke, and I don’t look down on direct downloading. It absolutely has its place, and sometimes I do it myself if it’s just faster to download a file directly. Torrenting is just so much more convenient, though, especially when using Jackett’s manual search.
Jackett is a program that allows you to configure multiple indexers (torrent sites, like 1337x, EZTV, RuTor, Nyaa.si, etc.) in a single interface, that way you can search through all of them at the same time. Jackett, and another program just like it called Prowlarr, is usually used in conjunction with the .arr suite of programs (Radarr, Sonarr, etc.), but it includes a manual search function that allows you to query all the indexers you have set up in the interface at the same time. That’s exclusively what I use it for.
So, for example, I have 22 indexers set up in my installation of Jackett. I can use the manual search function to search through all of them at once, then I can sort the results by seeder count, publish date, and file size, and I can filter through the results to find exactly what I’m looking for. Once I’ve found the file I want, I can copy the magnet link directly from the search results and paste it into Qbittorrent. It’s an extremely easy way to find files quickly, and it’s much more efficient than manually going to a bunch of different torrent sites to search for a file that might not even be available there. With Jackett, I’ve literally never once had a case where I wasn’t able to find what I was looking for. That’s how good it is.
Don’t you need to find 22 indexers to make that happen? Are these all public trackers because I don’t think there are even that many left. Or are you using private trackers? I tried using Jacket but it’s no good without having indexers, I thought it comes preinstalled with indexers
Jackett comes preloaded with 574 indexers, and none of the ones I use are private. All of mine are public indexers, you just have to know the names of some popular torrent sites. I discovered half the indexers I use from people on r/Piracy (before the migration) talking about how much they like how they work. That’s how I found Idope, Knaben, and Torlock. Others, like 1337x, Nyaa.si, LimeTorrents, and EZTV are all indexers I was familiar with as I had used them personally and recognized them when I clicked into the “add indexers” drop-down on the interface. Barring all that, you could just ask someone else to send you a screenshot of all the indexers they use on their Jackett setup. Here’s a list of the ones I use. Adding indexers to Jackett is basically the easiest part, and you only have to do it once.
I must have tried a different application before(not Jackett) because this one is totally different and I do see the preinstalled indexers and they work great! Now, is there an Android client for Jackett? My ideal scenario would be to search all my Jackett indexers from a nice Android app and tap a magnet link. I already have a torrrent app (Transdroid) installed on my Android so it would take it from there.
I’m not sure if they have an android version of Jackett. It would be a dream come true if that were the case, but I’m sure it would be listed in the Jackett github page if a mobile version was available. Sadly, there’s no mention if anything like that on the github page.
Really glad to hear you were able to get Jackett working, though! It really is an amazing program.
What? Now I’m confused, when I installed it and tried searching there was nothing. I could go configure them but I didn’t know what to do there. EDIT, never mind, I was confusing Jackett with something else, Jackett works great.
I actually have done that, but Qbit’s built-in search doesn’t have the same search filtering options. For instance, I can’t sort torrents by upload date on the Qbit web-ui (this is the most important missing feature, imo), or set it to only search certain indexers and not others, and it has no category related options. It has the essentials, but the Jackett interface is just cleaner and more feature rich in my opinion. That’s why I stopped using the Qbit search engine in favor of Jackett.
I’ve considered switching to this program, but from what I’ve heard, its manual search isn’t as good as Jackett’s, and I only use Jackett for manual searching. Apparently Prowlarr is more suited for use with the .arr suite, which is why its manual search isn’t as good, and it doesn’t have as many available indexers. I heard all this a while ago, though. Is this all still the case?
I honestly use them both since my arrs are all set up for jacket for the few torrents i need whrn usenet doesnt have something and it works fine so no point redoing everything. I use prowlarr for all my manual searches though.
They aren’t using any of those programs though. That’s the point of the meme and they have explained this in the comments. Last I used those programs waste far more time than they ever saved, and OP agrees with me on this.
Yeah this is honestly how I find/download most stuff. Almost all trackers on I’m on have jackett support, and then I can choose the exact release I want.
nope. Every time I try them, they fuck up my movies / series categorization. They have bad support for multilingual content (or maybe the releasers should use better naming). To be honest I never understood why radarr and sonarr is useful. How many movies are you watching that downloading becomes a time wasting effort? For TV series, why don’t you download packs that contain the entire season?
For each movies I spend less than a minute for the torrent search, for tv series less than 5 minutes just because I am picky on quality. Given how many problems people have with the -arr stack, I think my time is better spent like this. Maybe stuff would be different with usenet
Because not every movie and episode that I want to watch is already released. Radarr/sonarr lets me subscribe and downlod the correct movie/episode when available in the quality profile that I want.
Also automatically sorting everything in a useful structure when I share my plex libraries with friends and family.
Funny you should mention it, I actually discovered Jackett through Radarr/Sonarr. I saw a lot of people a few years ago on r/Piracy raving about how much they love their Radarr/Sonarr setup, so I decided to follow a video tutorial on how to set up Radarr/Sonarr. One of the steps was to install and configure Jackett. Long story short, I realized a Radarr/Sonarr setup just wasn’t worth it for me (didn’t have the time/money to set up a dedicated computer for it), so I uninstalled all the .arr programs and gave up on that, but I forgot to uninstall Jackett. Later, I rediscovered it on my system, and while poking around on the interface, I found the manual search function and used it. Suffice to say, it’s all been uphill from there lol
I would like to set up an .arr stack that dumps files into my OMV NAS, where Jellyfin can pick them up, but I want the torrent traffic to go through my Proton VPN. Is this a common configuration, or should I be doing something differently?
You can configure sonarr and radarr around this so that when the torrents are completed, they are renamed and placed in the nas as well as send a webhook to jellyfin to let it know it has been added (instead of it having to to do a manual search)
Not uncommon. I run wireguard in a docker container for Mullvad and then set my qBittorent container to use the network of the wireguard container. If you do something like this you’ll need to set routing rules on the VPN so the web interface of your torrent client is accessible over your LAN for the *arr stack. The wireguard docs have a decent guide on how to do this, shouldn’t be a problem on OpenVPN either.
Right now I have everything going through Tailscale, it’s just my desktop that goes through Proton when I’m torrenting manually like it’s 2011. Idk, old habits die hard, ig
Yep, that’s what I’m doing (except different NAS). I’ve got the Proton connection at my firewall, but you can use a gluetun container and route your other containers through that as well.
Been using it for about a month-ish and it did it to me today, looked up the issue and github said reinstall. Now I can’t use it until I do, but thankfully I just got on usenet so I can be lazy for a week or so.
My solution to this has just been to run it in Docker. Update the container and redeploy and it’s working again. Only had it happen once or twice though, so not sure if what you’re describing is what I experienced or something different.
Yeah I might do this, I’ve yet to use docker (new-ish to linux) so I’ll have to look into it. I also need to find out which *arr will search usenet indexers and auto-dl shows I say to get, and I think I need to run that thing in a docker container, so I have to figure it out anyway! Lol thanks for the idea!
The next step is using Jellyseerr to tell Sonarr and Radarr to query Jackett to automatically download stuff you requested at the quality you’ve defined and have it automatically sent to your Transmission server.
I don’t use .arr programs, so not really, lol. At least not in my case, anyway. Stremio fills the niche for all my media needs quite nicely, and Qbit and Jackett cover everything else.
Edit: Really, downvoting someone for using Stremio instead of the .arr suite? Lol. Stay classy, c/Piracy.
I had no trouble setting it up before. Seemed very easy to me. Where are you getting stuck in the process?
Alternatively, you could just search directly in Jackett’s interface with the “manual search” option. That’s what I do. I find it preferable to setting it up with the Qbit search engine since Jackett’s search has more features.
I’m far from home on vacation, so I can’t answer precisely, but yeah, I followed the official tutorial. Can’t remember the error though, but I’m close to making it work. It just gets stuck for whatever reason. Maybe that’s because I use qBbittorent in a docker container, don’t know.
So yes, I use the manual search when I need something very specific, which I’d rather do from qbit.
Otherwise, I use all the *arr suite for my audiovisual needs. Pretty nice and painless.
Jackett doesn’t require a VPN to use? Unless you mean torrents in general, in which case yeah, you do kinda need a VPN for those if you live in a country that prosecutes torrenting. Fortunately, you can just direct download stuff in that case.
dont most countries not allow it though? something about there being pressure from the country/copy right holder that the product is associated with? so like even if uganda dont care if their citizens all rip the new taylor swift, if they dont enforce then usa or copyright holder is going to be mad and uganda dont want that.
i could be wrong im not sure but i think i read that somewhere. so like essentially its illegal everywhere depending on what content is torrented, which a lot is from usa. and probably south korea lol and i know they have strict copyright laws
Nah, even in Canada you just get a warning everytime a rights holder complains. I have Teksavyy, which is a decent ISP, they take the “scary” letter/email the rights holder sends and enclose it in a cover letter that says “we’re legally required to send this to you, however they don’t know who you are so don’t respond to them or expose yourself in any way. The only way for them to find out who you are is if a judge compels us to tell them, which is rare”
There is no amount of these warnings that leads to a higher consequence.
I expect that if Canada is this chill, I’d be surprised if Uganda was more strict.
It’s mostly just the US that’s insane about copyright I think. You guys have Hollywood and the music industry and they got no chill.
It’s also Germany where torrenting without VPN is not possible. There’s one single law firm that has contracts with most big IP holders. They look up IP’s on public trackers and sent an “Unterlassungserklärung” to the name and adress of the person paying the ISP. ISP’s having to give out names to IP’s without a court order is the problem here.
Well, no, actually vast majority of countries do not care at all. There are only a few countries like Germany for instance, where you have to use vpn for torrenting
I just started sailing again and all the torrents i want for my fav bands are stuck at 0. So i’ve started getting songs one by one from that website that takes them from deezer i found on here.
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I DDL because I live in america and people here tell me there are no good free VPNs (I do not have disposable income)
Try Proton VPN if you only have one computer.
What is Jackett’s manual search? Never heard of it.
Jackett is a program that allows you to configure multiple indexers (torrent sites, like 1337x, EZTV, RuTor, Nyaa.si, etc.) in a single interface, that way you can search through all of them at the same time. Jackett, and another program just like it called Prowlarr, is usually used in conjunction with the .arr suite of programs (Radarr, Sonarr, etc.), but it includes a manual search function that allows you to query all the indexers you have set up in the interface at the same time. That’s exclusively what I use it for.
So, for example, I have 22 indexers set up in my installation of Jackett. I can use the manual search function to search through all of them at once, then I can sort the results by seeder count, publish date, and file size, and I can filter through the results to find exactly what I’m looking for. Once I’ve found the file I want, I can copy the magnet link directly from the search results and paste it into Qbittorrent. It’s an extremely easy way to find files quickly, and it’s much more efficient than manually going to a bunch of different torrent sites to search for a file that might not even be available there. With Jackett, I’ve literally never once had a case where I wasn’t able to find what I was looking for. That’s how good it is.
Don’t you need to find 22 indexers to make that happen? Are these all public trackers because I don’t think there are even that many left. Or are you using private trackers? I tried using Jacket but it’s no good without having indexers, I thought it comes preinstalled with indexers
Jackett comes preloaded with 574 indexers, and none of the ones I use are private. All of mine are public indexers, you just have to know the names of some popular torrent sites. I discovered half the indexers I use from people on r/Piracy (before the migration) talking about how much they like how they work. That’s how I found Idope, Knaben, and Torlock. Others, like 1337x, Nyaa.si, LimeTorrents, and EZTV are all indexers I was familiar with as I had used them personally and recognized them when I clicked into the “add indexers” drop-down on the interface. Barring all that, you could just ask someone else to send you a screenshot of all the indexers they use on their Jackett setup. Here’s a list of the ones I use. Adding indexers to Jackett is basically the easiest part, and you only have to do it once.
I must have tried a different application before(not Jackett) because this one is totally different and I do see the preinstalled indexers and they work great! Now, is there an Android client for Jackett? My ideal scenario would be to search all my Jackett indexers from a nice Android app and tap a magnet link. I already have a torrrent app (Transdroid) installed on my Android so it would take it from there.
I’m not sure if they have an android version of Jackett. It would be a dream come true if that were the case, but I’m sure it would be listed in the Jackett github page if a mobile version was available. Sadly, there’s no mention if anything like that on the github page.
Really glad to hear you were able to get Jackett working, though! It really is an amazing program.
Hmm, I couldn’t figure out how to add them, so I gave up. I’ll have to try it again
It does come preinstalled with them, that’s the whole point of Jackett. You just need to enable them in the dashboard.
What? Now I’m confused, when I installed it and tried searching there was nothing. I could go configure them but I didn’t know what to do there. EDIT, never mind, I was confusing Jackett with something else, Jackett works great.
Is there anything like this that I could use on Android?
Not what you asked for but torrent-CSV can be helpful for you
Does this run on Android though?
You can use either web version or android app. Fun fact, it’s made by the creator of lemmy
I don’t torrent on mobile, so I have no idea if a mobile equivalent to this exists, sorry.
Oh I see, I do all my torrenting on my tablet because that’s where I watch the movies anyway
You can take this a step further and use Qbittorrents built in search function to query your jackett indexers. No reason to leave the Qbit webui
I actually have done that, but Qbit’s built-in search doesn’t have the same search filtering options. For instance, I can’t sort torrents by upload date on the Qbit web-ui (this is the most important missing feature, imo), or set it to only search certain indexers and not others, and it has no category related options. It has the essentials, but the Jackett interface is just cleaner and more feature rich in my opinion. That’s why I stopped using the Qbit search engine in favor of Jackett.
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And Prowlarr is even better if you’re also using Radarr/Sonarr/Lidar.
I’ve considered switching to this program, but from what I’ve heard, its manual search isn’t as good as Jackett’s, and I only use Jackett for manual searching. Apparently Prowlarr is more suited for use with the .arr suite, which is why its manual search isn’t as good, and it doesn’t have as many available indexers. I heard all this a while ago, though. Is this all still the case?
They’re mostly functionally equivalent, but prowlarr supports usenet indexers in addition as well as having a better interface.
Jackett shows if torrent is freeleech. Prowlarr doesnt. Shame because prowlarr is more reliable
Prowlarr properly shows if a torrent is freeleech for me. Maybe the feature was added after you tried it?
Ah. Well, I don’t use Usenet and Jackett’s interface suits me fine. Guess I’ll stick to Jackett then. Thanks for the info!
I honestly use them both since my arrs are all set up for jacket for the few torrents i need whrn usenet doesnt have something and it works fine so no point redoing everything. I use prowlarr for all my manual searches though.
It integrates with other *ar apps so well too.
They aren’t using any of those programs though. That’s the point of the meme and they have explained this in the comments. Last I used those programs waste far more time than they ever saved, and OP agrees with me on this.
Yeah this is honestly how I find/download most stuff. Almost all trackers on I’m on have jackett support, and then I can choose the exact release I want.
You guys are not using radarr/sonarr?
nope. Every time I try them, they fuck up my movies / series categorization. They have bad support for multilingual content (or maybe the releasers should use better naming). To be honest I never understood why radarr and sonarr is useful. How many movies are you watching that downloading becomes a time wasting effort? For TV series, why don’t you download packs that contain the entire season?
For each movies I spend less than a minute for the torrent search, for tv series less than 5 minutes just because I am picky on quality. Given how many problems people have with the -arr stack, I think my time is better spent like this. Maybe stuff would be different with usenet
Because not every movie and episode that I want to watch is already released. Radarr/sonarr lets me subscribe and downlod the correct movie/episode when available in the quality profile that I want.
Also automatically sorting everything in a useful structure when I share my plex libraries with friends and family.
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Funny you should mention it, I actually discovered Jackett through Radarr/Sonarr. I saw a lot of people a few years ago on r/Piracy raving about how much they love their Radarr/Sonarr setup, so I decided to follow a video tutorial on how to set up Radarr/Sonarr. One of the steps was to install and configure Jackett. Long story short, I realized a Radarr/Sonarr setup just wasn’t worth it for me (didn’t have the time/money to set up a dedicated computer for it), so I uninstalled all the .arr programs and gave up on that, but I forgot to uninstall Jackett. Later, I rediscovered it on my system, and while poking around on the interface, I found the manual search function and used it. Suffice to say, it’s all been uphill from there lol
I would like to set up an .arr stack that dumps files into my OMV NAS, where Jellyfin can pick them up, but I want the torrent traffic to go through my Proton VPN. Is this a common configuration, or should I be doing something differently?
If you are in the docker ecosystem, this is fantastic https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn
You can configure sonarr and radarr around this so that when the torrents are completed, they are renamed and placed in the nas as well as send a webhook to jellyfin to let it know it has been added (instead of it having to to do a manual search)
Not uncommon. I run wireguard in a docker container for Mullvad and then set my qBittorent container to use the network of the wireguard container. If you do something like this you’ll need to set routing rules on the VPN so the web interface of your torrent client is accessible over your LAN for the *arr stack. The wireguard docs have a decent guide on how to do this, shouldn’t be a problem on OpenVPN either.
Right now I have everything going through Tailscale, it’s just my desktop that goes through Proton when I’m torrenting manually like it’s 2011. Idk, old habits die hard, ig
Yep, that’s what I’m doing (except different NAS). I’ve got the Proton connection at my firewall, but you can use a gluetun container and route your other containers through that as well.
This is excellent to know, thank you.
I think you may have replied to the wrong post? At least you still received an answer, though, lol.
I probably shouldn’t have hijacked, my apologies
No problem.
Yeah until jackett shits the bed and all of a sudden all indexers fail, and the “official fix” is to completely reinstall.
Edit: Don’t downvote me, express your displeasure here and here. Tell 'em I sent ya.
Gotta say, in over 2 years of using this program, I’ve never had that happen even once.
Been using it for about a month-ish and it did it to me today, looked up the issue and github said reinstall. Now I can’t use it until I do, but thankfully I just got on usenet so I can be lazy for a week or so.
My solution to this has just been to run it in Docker. Update the container and redeploy and it’s working again. Only had it happen once or twice though, so not sure if what you’re describing is what I experienced or something different.
Yeah I might do this, I’ve yet to use docker (new-ish to linux) so I’ll have to look into it. I also need to find out which *arr will search usenet indexers and auto-dl shows I say to get, and I think I need to run that thing in a docker container, so I have to figure it out anyway! Lol thanks for the idea!
The next step is using Jellyseerr to tell Sonarr and Radarr to query Jackett to automatically download stuff you requested at the quality you’ve defined and have it automatically sent to your Transmission server.
Your meme is missing one more picture where everything explodes with full servarr setup
I don’t use .arr programs, so not really, lol. At least not in my case, anyway. Stremio fills the niche for all my media needs quite nicely, and Qbit and Jackett cover everything else.
Edit: Really, downvoting someone for using Stremio instead of the .arr suite? Lol. Stay classy, c/Piracy.
I NEVER managed to make Jackett’s plugin work in my qBbittorent. No matter how many tutorials I follow x)
You probably have, but did you follow the official configuration tutorial?
I had no trouble setting it up before. Seemed very easy to me. Where are you getting stuck in the process?
Alternatively, you could just search directly in Jackett’s interface with the “manual search” option. That’s what I do. I find it preferable to setting it up with the Qbit search engine since Jackett’s search has more features.
I’m far from home on vacation, so I can’t answer precisely, but yeah, I followed the official tutorial. Can’t remember the error though, but I’m close to making it work. It just gets stuck for whatever reason. Maybe that’s because I use qBbittorent in a docker container, don’t know.
So yes, I use the manual search when I need something very specific, which I’d rather do from qbit. Otherwise, I use all the *arr suite for my audiovisual needs. Pretty nice and painless.
Thanks for answering and for giving the link :)
I’m kind of shocked that there isn’t a PonFarr for this ecosystem.
but i dont wanna pay for a vpn…
Jackett doesn’t require a VPN to use? Unless you mean torrents in general, in which case yeah, you do kinda need a VPN for those if you live in a country that prosecutes torrenting. Fortunately, you can just direct download stuff in that case.
dont most countries not allow it though? something about there being pressure from the country/copy right holder that the product is associated with? so like even if uganda dont care if their citizens all rip the new taylor swift, if they dont enforce then usa or copyright holder is going to be mad and uganda dont want that.
i could be wrong im not sure but i think i read that somewhere. so like essentially its illegal everywhere depending on what content is torrented, which a lot is from usa. and probably south korea lol and i know they have strict copyright laws
Nah, even in Canada you just get a warning everytime a rights holder complains. I have Teksavyy, which is a decent ISP, they take the “scary” letter/email the rights holder sends and enclose it in a cover letter that says “we’re legally required to send this to you, however they don’t know who you are so don’t respond to them or expose yourself in any way. The only way for them to find out who you are is if a judge compels us to tell them, which is rare”
There is no amount of these warnings that leads to a higher consequence.
I expect that if Canada is this chill, I’d be surprised if Uganda was more strict.
It’s mostly just the US that’s insane about copyright I think. You guys have Hollywood and the music industry and they got no chill.
It’s also Germany where torrenting without VPN is not possible. There’s one single law firm that has contracts with most big IP holders. They look up IP’s on public trackers and sent an “Unterlassungserklärung” to the name and adress of the person paying the ISP. ISP’s having to give out names to IP’s without a court order is the problem here.
Ouch, sorry to hear that. Anyone know if that’s the same with other EU member states?
Not nearly. The Czech Republic is largely a free haven. We don’t have good public trackers, though.
Use private trackers then
Well, no, actually vast majority of countries do not care at all. There are only a few countries like Germany for instance, where you have to use vpn for torrenting
yeah i just mean it’s my blocker for using torrenting over DDL
Oh ma gaaahh REALLY??? Qbittorrent has a search engine???
I just started sailing again and all the torrents i want for my fav bands are stuck at 0. So i’ve started getting songs one by one from that website that takes them from deezer i found on here.
Soulseek for music. And yt-dlp.
bandcamp-dl is a blessing. i used to use zotify too back when it actually worked and it was a godsend!