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.
How do you install search plugins in qBittorrent? When I follow their instructions, paste the plugin URL to add it, nothing happens. I’m using a headless qBittorrent web gui
Honestly I had the same experience with qbittorrent’s plugins. Many are outdated and broken i think.
It’s much easier to use sonarr and radarr, with prowlarr for managing torrent mirrors.
Yeah, I’d rather not go down that rabbit hole, it’s too much for what I need. I just want to be able to search for torrents easier and add them with one click, I don’t need the whole automation stack.
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.
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!
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.
I’ve learned a lot here on Lemmy
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.
Is there anything like this that I could use on Android?
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
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
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.
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.
Hmm, I couldn’t figure out how to add them, so I gave up. I’ll have to try it again
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 of 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.
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.
Me who never heard about it: ??
Built in search in qBittorrent? Why am I learning about this only now? This is awesome just gave it a shot
You may get mixed results with it. I certainly didn’t get much out of it.
You might wanna try jackett or sonarr and radarr, which are more fully featured solutions.
Prowlarr gang checking in
Am I the only one that uses Medusa to auto download shows?
I have never heard of Medusa and it seems pretty outdated compared to Sonarr.
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!
Today I learned that some torrent clients provide a built-in torrent search engine.
Today I learned that people actually use this. I always thought it didn’t work right.
See, I was hoping this meme would inform at least one person that Qbittorrent comes with an in-built search engine. That’s how I found out about it in the first place, through a meme lol
what how? I’ve been using qbittorrent for a while and I never noticed that
I use to use qbtorrent search, but it stopped working a few years ago.
Huh, it works on my end. I tested it just the other day.
Limewire was like that. It was heavily abused and unsafe to find shit with but it was like living in the future.
Maybe because I didn’t know what I was doing back then but that was the only way I used Limewire
Yeah it was both a torrent manager and search engine. What we didn’t know was what came from where.
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.
yeah i just mean it’s my blocker for using torrenting over DDL
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
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
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.
Use private trackers then
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.
I’m kind of shocked that there isn’t a PonFarr for this ecosystem.
