cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/315850
I remember reading a post about someone setting up Jellyfin and some other software and essentially just waiting around a few days after shows come out and they end up being available in their media library. Like, some kind of pirating software that just grabs the right media. Is this a thing or am I misremembering?
I don’t use Jellyfin in particular but I’ve got something set up to achieve what you have outlined.
Sonarr and Radarr have my watchlists for TV and movies respectively. Based on those watchlists, quality settings, and online release calendars they search torrent sites for new releases. If you want to subscribe to a Usenet service they work on those as well. Once the item is available the torrent file or magnet link is sent to a torrent client. Once the file is downloaded Sonarr or Radarr move it to a directory where Plex can index it and add it to the media library.
There are a few weird moments where it doesn’t work, but in general a new episode is available on my server within an hour of its original airing having finished, and I don’t have to do anything.
It’s really handy to run these on a seedbox or VPS. For local installs there are a bunch of dockerized versions of these services which makes it relatively easy to set up.