I see that the stremio plugin torrentio can search tv show episodes and find them inside some torrents with a lot of other files. For example, a torrent may contain a whole season of a tv show, and stremio will take just the episode you want there. Plus, it knows exactly which torrents have which episodes. This is a whole step up of covenience compared to going to a torrent site like EZTV and searching for the tv show name and getting a disorganized list of torrents.
Is there a simple low-overhead tool for doing this high-level search for movies and tv shows? Like stremio, but one that gives the magnet link for me to use in qbittorrent, of many episodes at once. In stremio i have to start streming to ask it to give me the magnet link… for each episode.
Ive looked at those selfhosted *arr tools mentioned in the megathread, but i think those are overkill for me. I dont want to host a bunch of background services on my main laptop and dont have a server nor plan to build one for this. So, does there exist a torrent search tool that nicely organizes results like stremio does? Or should I just go learn to use sonarr? (does sonarr even do what im describing).
Thanks
qBittorrent has a built-in search tool. There are several plugins you can use with it to search for content. Of these, I recommend installing Jackett—a tracker result aggregator—and the Jackett plugin for qBittorrent.
Is Hackett preferred over prowlarr? I prefer the latter, but not sure what everyone else is up to
I like the convenience of searching in qBittorrent, for which Prowlarr doesn’t appear to have an actively developed plugin anymore. Looking at a few threads on Reddit, it seems that people prefer Prowlarr in general, particularly for its *arr stack integration.
Oh, I’ll try it, thanks!
Sonarr does exactly what you’re describing. It wouldn’t be overkill to set it up just for that and qbittorrent. The full stack would probably be overkill.