{"slug": "radarr", "name": "Radarr", "category": "selfhosted", "category_name": "Self-hosted and home server", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 9, "warners": 0, "score": 5.349, "rising": 4.0, "first": "2026-01-26", "latest": "2026-10-17", "why": "You punch a request into radarr and after some time it magically appears in Jellyfin.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 6, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 3], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "You punch a request into radarr and after some time it magically appears in Jellyfin.", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://radarr.video", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Radarr"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 801778368, "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": "movie management", "switched_from": "", "story": "What I self-host"}, {"id": 801776481, "item_id": 50111030, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111030", "by": "birdsongs", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Highly recommend them to OP. My stack went down once in the past 4 years and it was my fault.", "excerpt": "I think it just sounds intimidating if one hasn't tried, but they are really well designed pieces of software, that are relatively simple to set up (just have to go through the motions and connect everything with API keys). Highly recommend them to OP. My stack went down once in the past 4 years and it was my fault.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "What I self-host"}, {"id": 801775777, "item_id": 50110986, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50110986", "by": "eleventen", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "they aren't especially heavy to run and are not fragile", "excerpt": "> Sonarr, Lidarr, Radarr, etc. Every time I read about setting it up, it just sounds like a resource-intensive mess that\u2019s fundamentally prone to frequent breakage. That\u2019s the opposite of what I\u2019m looking for when choosing self-hosted services. I just checked on my *arr stack. Sonarr and Radarr idle at 157MB and 159MB of memory and approximately no CPU. Jellyfin currently idles at 330MB. I'm not sure where you got th", "context": "", "use_case": "media automation", "switched_from": "", "story": "What I self-host"}, {"id": 797437600, "item_id": 49839850, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839850", "by": "unrented7977", "date": "2026-09-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You punch a request into radarr and after some time it magically appears in Jellyfin.", "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": "automated movie downloads", "switched_from": "", "story": "Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "unrented7977", "context": "home Proxmox setup", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839850", "date": "2026-09-25"}, {"by": "h4kunamata", "context": "homelab hobbyist", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772767", "date": "2026-01-26"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["media automation", "movie management", "automated movie downloads", "movie download automation", "media management"], "compared": [{"slug": "sonarr", "name": "Sonarr", "co": 8, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "jellyfin", "name": "Jellyfin", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "qbittorrent", "name": "qBittorrent", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "prowlarr", "name": "Prowlarr", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "proxmox", "name": "Proxmox", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "ansible", "name": "Ansible", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "wireguard", "name": "WireGuard", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "seerr", "name": "Seerr", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109715", "title": "What I self-host", "mentions": 4}, {"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=49831774", "title": "Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986091", "title": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759341", "title": "WiiFin \u2013 Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553910", "title": "From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 2}}, "quotes": [{"id": 802118275, "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": "movie download automation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"}, {"id": 801795168, "item_id": 50112198, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112198", "by": "gib444", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Whenever I use them I wonder if they could be one unified app with plugins...?", "excerpt": "There must be large amounts of similar code between Radarr, Lidarr, Sonarr etc. Whenever I use them I wonder if they could be one unified app with plugins...?", "context": "", "use_case": "media management", "switched_from": "", "story": "What I self-host"}, {"id": 801778368, "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": "movie management", "switched_from": "", "story": "What I self-host"}, {"id": 801776481, "item_id": 50111030, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111030", "by": "birdsongs", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Highly recommend them to OP. My stack went down once in the past 4 years and it was my fault.", "excerpt": "I think it just sounds intimidating if one hasn't tried, but they are really well designed pieces of software, that are relatively simple to set up (just have to go through the motions and connect everything with API keys). Highly recommend them to OP. My stack went down once in the past 4 years and it was my fault.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "What I self-host"}, {"id": 801775777, "item_id": 50110986, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50110986", "by": "eleventen", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "they aren't especially heavy to run and are not fragile", "excerpt": "> Sonarr, Lidarr, Radarr, etc. Every time I read about setting it up, it just sounds like a resource-intensive mess that\u2019s fundamentally prone to frequent breakage. That\u2019s the opposite of what I\u2019m looking for when choosing self-hosted services. I just checked on my *arr stack. Sonarr and Radarr idle at 157MB and 159MB of memory and approximately no CPU. Jellyfin currently idles at 330MB. I'm not sure where you got th", "context": "", "use_case": "media automation", "switched_from": "", "story": "What I self-host"}, {"id": 797437600, "item_id": 49839850, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839850", "by": "unrented7977", "date": "2026-09-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You punch a request into radarr and after some time it magically appears in Jellyfin.", "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": "automated movie downloads", "switched_from": "", "story": "Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits"}, {"id": 783807572, "item_id": 48987973, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987973", "by": "wildzzz", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Seerr tells radarr or sonarr to query my private trackers", "excerpt": "Thats what I used to have 15 years ago when I was streaming over SMB to my Xbox running XBMC. It works but having something like Plex or Jellyfin is just so much nicer. It gives you the \"Netflix\" experience of browsing your media library. My Jellyfin is setup to offer an automatic \"skip intro/credits\" button. I used to use Plex and was a yearly subscriber mostly for the ability to download media to my phone for offli", "context": "", "use_case": "automated movie downloads", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}, {"id": 764296307, "item_id": 47768519, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768519", "by": "nyolfen", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "they get grabbed by sonarr/radarr", "excerpt": "i didn't have much trouble services: jellyfin: build: dockerfile: jellyfin.Dockerfile container_name: jellyfin group_add: - 44 - 993 environment: - TZ=<redacted> - JELLYFIN_PublishedServerUrl=<redacted> - DOMAIN_NAME=<redacted> ports: - 8096:8096 - 8920:8920 - \"7359:7359/udp\" volumes: - ./config:/config - ./cache:/cache - ./config/index.html:/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/index.html - type: bind source: /mnt/storage/Video ta", "context": "", "use_case": "media automation", "switched_from": "", "story": "WiiFin \u2013 Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"}, {"id": 761297796, "item_id": 47581112, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581112", "by": "h4kunamata", "date": "2026-03-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have setup a LXC container running Radarr, qBittorrent, Sonarr, Jackett", "excerpt": ">A lot of our week is made up of the same kinds of small tasks: provision a VM, tweak storage settings, pass through a device, replicate a dataset, share a file, test an image, throw the machine away, do it again. None of that is exciting. All I read is that they are still doing ClickOPS over DevSecOps!! At no moment I heard automation, if you aren't using automation in 2026, your future in IT is cooked. I run Proxmo", "context": "", "use_case": "media automation", "switched_from": "", "story": "From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab"}, {"id": 748364277, "item_id": 46772767, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772767", "by": "h4kunamata", "date": "2026-01-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "2) Radarr: The inhouse browser", "excerpt": "AI can be good under the right circumstances but only if reviewed 100% of the time by a human. Homelab is my hobby where I run Proxmox, Debian VM, DNS, K8s, etc, all managed via Ansible. For what it is worth, I hate docker :) I wanted to setup a private tracker torrent that should include: 1) Jackett: For the authentication 2) Radarr: The inhouse browser 3) qBitorrent: which receives the torrent files automatically f", "context": "homelab hobbyist", "use_case": "movie management", "switched_from": "", "story": "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"}]}