What are your favorite public torrent based indexers for TV and Movies using the *arr stack? (lemmy.ml)

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I've been having trouble since rarbg shut down and have been having to manually check downloaded files because so many of them are poor quality, not even playable or completely different movies/shows. YTS has been decent for movies but over the last 48 hours it's been failing (maybe because of the cloudflare issue but who knows)

I know the easiest solution would be to cough up the money for a usenet sub but I don't want to unless absolutely necessary.
I'm not on any private trackers.

So what public torrent indexers do you use and what order do you have them in?

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[-] Lantier@jlai.lu 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

1337x.to should cover most mainstream media. Add nyaa.si for anime.

[-] dizzy@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I've been getting this message with 1337x.to recently with whatever VPN I use so had to disable it:

Unable to access 1337x.to, blocked by CloudFlare Protection.

But do you think they're currently the best on there?

[-] MalReynolds@piefed.social 13 points 4 days ago

1337x is pretty damn good, look into flaresolverr for the Cloudflare, it's a bit hit or miss (cat and mouse game there) but useful. Also Limetorrents, EZTV and good old piratebay are worth it IMO.

[-] dizzy@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Never heard of flaresolver, thanks for the tip!

I don’t think I have Limetorrents enabled so will add that too. Is that the priority order you have them in then? Leet, lime, eztv and then tpb?

[-] modular950@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

curious what version of flaresolverr you're using? I have it running in docker, and although I realize it is a cat and mouse game, the cat seems to be winning a LARGE majority of the time for me, and 1337 is nearly always disabled as a result.

I get the same general message, "challenge detected", and not able to win. at one point, I looked through the output of my flaresolverr instance but was ultimately not able to piece together anything meaningful (by my understanding).

[-] MalReynolds@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

Er, current (I use podman autoupdate). Often it's the second time you try that it works (takes a while to work and times out), can also be a hard block on your vpn egress IP, then change it, test to see if you can reach it in your browser. Also you arr may have decided it's not working and turn it off, check system errors. Currently my log has detected, challenge solved, response in 18 - 40 s, so it's definitely slow at the moment.

[-] modular950@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

helpful insights, thank you for sharing!

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago

It is not recommended to run the arr stack through a VPN because cloudflare will cause problems. Only the torrent client should go through the VPN.

[-] dizzy@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I just don’t want my ISP knowing what I’m doing at all.

[-] unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

Since plain http is becoming pretty uncommon nowadays, just use a non-ISP DNS server and you should be pretty safe.

[-] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Add a bunch to Prowlarr (filter by public, Torrent, Language, category) and then monitor the stats in Prowlarr to remove the ones not working out for you.

MagnetDownload has the highest number of successful grabs for me. Followed by TorrentProject2. I run a Bitmagnet instance though, and I have that as highest piority.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

I keep getting annoying fake torrents where they put a bunch of junk into an archive and then give that the name of the thing that I'm tracking. The *arrs say "yep, file's there, you might need to extract it yourself though, not sure what's going on there" and Jellyfinn just never gets the files, because they're not real.

[-] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 days ago

Cleanuparr+huntarr

[-] BoblinTheGoblin@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Nice try FBI

[-] dizzy@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Haha

[-] 2bitproduces@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Just sent you a message, but if you want an invite I've gotchu Other than that I think mine is set up with private, then TPB, 1337x and YTS (I think in that order) for public. The private seems to catch most of what I need and then the other 2 catch most of the other stuff

[-] NullGator@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

I'd be interested in an invite as well, if you're willing.

[-] sga@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago

https://knaben.org/ is an aggregator. I dont sail often, but if i do, and i know what i want is not very recent (like made available in last week) then i go there first

[-] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago

Try prowlarr.

[-] dizzy@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

I'm using prowlarr, I'm asking about the specific indexers within prowlarr and their order

[-] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Cool. I activate all of the public ones. They come and go and rate limit and such. So just use them all. Unless you want to pay or try to find an invite to a free private one. That I can't help with. But it works for me. Takes a little longer to search all of them, but it's usually in the background so no big deal for me.