Sonarr and Radarr keep grabbing releases from a couple specific groups ( ‘SuccessfulCrab’ and ‘ELiTE’) for items that clearly haven’t even aired yet. These almost always contain only .scr or .lnk files, which have been blocklisted in my torrent client. This leaves Sonarr/Radarr awaiting manual intervention for ‘complete’ downloads that contain no files.
How do I get them to block anything and everything that contain the strings ‘SuccessfulCrab’ and ‘ELiTE’ ??? I want them to stop even trying to grab anything released by those two groups.
I’m so sick of dealing with these.
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OK, so I have been looking at this from the wrong angle.
It is not these groups that I’m upset with, but malware uploaders masquerading as release groups. These names can and will change, making this a game of wack-a-mole if I try to fight it this way.
Initially I’d followed instructions below to block these names/strings being grabbed by the arrs and that does work fantastically; but as above, wack-a-mole. Plus both SuccessfulCrab and ELiTE have plenty of good releases out there, it’s not their fault someone’s using their names.
So, I’m now running Cleanuparr.
This will maintain a large list of unwanted filetypes in qbittorrent. Then when qbit marks a torrent as complete because there are no wanted files, cleanupparr removes it from both qbit and the arr that requested it, while also triggering a new search for the item.
It can also cleanup items failing to import, stalled downloads, torrents stuck downloading metedata, or things that are just absurdly slow; with varying time scales/stringency.
I’ll run this for a bit and see how it goes.
Honestly we should just start a list we maintain, and then ask Sonarr/Radarr to offer a feature to pull from a URL of our choosing periodically. That way we can curate the blocklists as a collective rather than this manual bullshit.
Check out Trash Guides.
I am familiar, thanks though
This kind of functionality belongs in Sonarr/Radarr imo, and not separate service(s)
The functionality is in the apps. That’s why TRaSH guides work.
You’re not supposed to just use Sonarr/Radarr without customizing your filters first. It’s also not too hard to make your own, if you don’t want to use the TRaSH formats.
I appreciate the advice, but I’m not solely referring to the customization of filtering, of course it has the ability to do that, almost every comment in this thread is about that. The feature I am raising is about syncing community maintained txt blobs, Trash tells us exactly how to sync the guide with Sonarr/Radarr, but not without additional software or manual effort.
Trash may offer excellent filters, but they are often incomplete, and do not promote community involvement. A URL pointed at a single source of truth inherently would, this is a popular approach with blocklists all over the web. If a user wants to modify the list, and has to post to a single moderated source, everyone benefits. But currently as a user you either setup syncing orchestration or you manually copy Trash. Neither of which lends itself toward keeping the community up to date.
If you are aware of a way to have Sonarr/Radarr pull directly from a single source of truth and update itself, that would be great though.
Ah, I see what you mean now. Something like that would be nice, but I don’t think it would work for a lot of people. I know I’m pretty particular about the stuff I download, and I doubt a community maintained list would tick the boxes I want. Especially since a lot of people seem to use separate instances of Sonarr for shows and animes, and I combine them into a single one, and then assign formats and libraries accordingly using Jellyseer so that my family can request media without effort.
I agree, for folks that don’t align with common use cases something like Trash is great. But there are always common configs, in all things that the masses would benefit from. For example, with blocklists you often have users who want to block all ads, porn, only ads from large companies but not small businesses, politics, etc. Different strokes for different folks.
Same is true with Sonarr & Radarr, where you have users who prefer different things, like foreign content, subtitled content, audio quality, specific video formats, etc. Chances are there is a configuration that would strike a balance for the masses and make most users happy. Just like most users are happy with a general ad blocklist without having to think much about what it is or isn’t blocking.
I’ll probably check out Cleanuparr for my own needs, that looks like a step in the right direction.