{"slug": "prowlarr", "name": "Prowlarr", "category": "selfhosted", "category_name": "Self-hosted and home server", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 4, "warners": 0, "score": 3.156, "rising": 1.67, "first": "2026-05-02", "latest": "2026-10-17", "why": "I use prowlarr and radarr in my hone proxmox setup.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I use prowlarr and radarr in my hone proxmox setup.", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://prowlarr.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Prowlarr"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 801778370, "item_id": 50111148, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111148", "by": "Cyph0n", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Here is the stack I recommend:", "excerpt": "Indeed. The other thing to point out is that, once you have set them up, they will chug along fine for years with near zero input. Here is the stack I recommend: * Radarr (movies) with optional second instance for 4K versions * Sonarr (shows) with optional second instance for 4K versions * Sonarr (anime), separate instance to have control over quality settings * Prowlarr (tracker/indexer management) * SABnzbd (Usenet", "context": "", "use_case": "tracker/indexer management", "switched_from": "", "story": "What I self-host"}, {"id": 797437601, "item_id": 49839850, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839850", "by": "unrented7977", "date": "2026-09-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use prowlarr and radarr in my hone proxmox setup.", "excerpt": "I use prowlarr and radarr in my hone proxmox setup. I have a container locked behind a VPN running my torrent client and everything pipes into my Jellyfin server. My non-techie partner honestly uses it way more than I do because it's just so damn easy. You punch a request into radarr and after some time it magically appears in Jellyfin. It was a bear to set up the first time, but smooth sailing after that", "context": "home Proxmox setup", "use_case": "indexer management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits"}, {"id": 767757012, "item_id": 47984813, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984813", "by": "gverrilla", "date": "2026-05-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The stack I use now: Docker, Lidarr, slskd, Tubifarry, Prowlarr, qBittorrent, Blissful and Soulmate.", "excerpt": "AI helped me escape from my Spotify kidnap. The stack I use now: Docker, Lidarr, slskd, Tubifarry, Prowlarr, qBittorrent, Blissful and Soulmate. And Strawberry for playlists/playback. Shoutout to MusicBrainz. Very happy to be rebuilding my music library. And this time no song will ever become unavailable out of the blue again. I'm never going to repeat the mistake of migrating to streaming.", "context": "", "use_case": "indexer management", "switched_from": "Spotify", "story": "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "unrented7977", "context": "home Proxmox setup", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839850", "date": "2026-09-25"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["indexer management", "tracker/indexer management"], "compared": [{"slug": "spotify", "name": "Spotify", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "radarr", "name": "Radarr", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "sonarr", "name": "Sonarr", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "qbittorrent", "name": "qBittorrent", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108872", "title": "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109715", "title": "What I self-host", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831774", "title": "Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976856", "title": "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 802118276, "item_id": 50132392, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132392", "by": "aaravchen", "date": "2026-10-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The blacklist feature of Sonarr/Radarr can be hooked into Prowlarr pretty easily", "excerpt": "Since no one is explaining: Cleanuparr uses the built-in Sonarr/Radarr blacklist feature, so if you encounter something where there's nothing to import, it will backlist the torrent. You can set it to cover stuck torrents too if you want, so it blacklists the \"dead\" torrents and will make Sonarr/Radarr move on and search again. The blacklist feature of Sonarr/Radarr can be hooked into Prowlarr pretty easily so that t", "context": "", "use_case": "indexer management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"}, {"id": 801778370, "item_id": 50111148, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111148", "by": "Cyph0n", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Here is the stack I recommend:", "excerpt": "Indeed. The other thing to point out is that, once you have set them up, they will chug along fine for years with near zero input. Here is the stack I recommend: * Radarr (movies) with optional second instance for 4K versions * Sonarr (shows) with optional second instance for 4K versions * Sonarr (anime), separate instance to have control over quality settings * Prowlarr (tracker/indexer management) * SABnzbd (Usenet", "context": "", "use_case": "tracker/indexer management", "switched_from": "", "story": "What I self-host"}, {"id": 797437601, "item_id": 49839850, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839850", "by": "unrented7977", "date": "2026-09-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use prowlarr and radarr in my hone proxmox setup.", "excerpt": "I use prowlarr and radarr in my hone proxmox setup. I have a container locked behind a VPN running my torrent client and everything pipes into my Jellyfin server. My non-techie partner honestly uses it way more than I do because it's just so damn easy. You punch a request into radarr and after some time it magically appears in Jellyfin. It was a bear to set up the first time, but smooth sailing after that", "context": "home Proxmox setup", "use_case": "indexer management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits"}, {"id": 767757012, "item_id": 47984813, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984813", "by": "gverrilla", "date": "2026-05-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The stack I use now: Docker, Lidarr, slskd, Tubifarry, Prowlarr, qBittorrent, Blissful and Soulmate.", "excerpt": "AI helped me escape from my Spotify kidnap. The stack I use now: Docker, Lidarr, slskd, Tubifarry, Prowlarr, qBittorrent, Blissful and Soulmate. And Strawberry for playlists/playback. Shoutout to MusicBrainz. Very happy to be rebuilding my music library. And this time no song will ever become unavailable out of the blue again. I'm never going to repeat the mistake of migrating to streaming.", "context": "", "use_case": "indexer management", "switched_from": "Spotify", "story": "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"}]}