If you’ve spent any time in the world of private trackers, you know that "racing"—the act of downloading a release the second it’s posted—is the best way to maintain a healthy upload ratio. autobrr is the modern, high-performance successor to the older autodl-irssi, designed to monitor IRC announce channels and automatically send torrents to your download client.
Here is how to get it up and running.
Installation and Initial Access
Autobrr is incredibly lightweight and can be installed via our OCI. Head over to your client area. If you have not installed it then it's visible on Available on Torrent Utilities category. Hit the install button.
After installed you can find it in Installed section and hit the Play button to access your Autobrr. It's advised to bookmark the link so that you don't need to go to Client Area to access your Autobrr
The first time you access it Autobrr will ask you to setup initial username and password. Type in your preferred username and password.
Connecting to IRC
autobrr works by "listening" to specific IRC channels where trackers announce new uploads.
Navigate to Settings > Indexers.
Click Add. Most popular trackers have pre-configured definitions.
You don't need to configure the IRC Server and Channel. Autobrr will automatically configure them for you based on a built in database. The database is listed here if you're curious https://github.com/autobrr/autobrr/tree/develop/internal/indexer/definitions
Most of the time depending on the tracker you need to enter :
Passkey | Autobrr need this to download the torrent file from your tracker. Get this information from your tracker site |
Nick | This is your nick 'alias'. Autobrr will join the irc channel using this nick 'alias' You need to group your alias to your real nick. |
NickServ Account | This your real nick on the IRC server |
NickServ Password | This your real nick password on the IRC server |
Example : If your nick is "SuperDuck" and you want to use "SuperDuck_bot" as your alias then you need to run this IRC command :
/nick SuperDuck_bot
/msg nickserv group SuperDuck YOURNICKPASSWORD
That will bind SuperDuck_bot (your alias) to SuperDuck
Visit https://autobrr.com/configuration/irc for more information
Linking Your Download Client
Now you need to tell autobrr where to send the files it finds.
Go to Settings > Clients.
Select your client (qBittorrent, Deluge, Transmission etc). Let's use Deluge as example as it is preinstalled on your seedbox.
Hostname | 127.0.0.1 |
Port | 58846 |
Username | user |
Password | YOUR SEEDBOX PASSWORD |
Click Test to ensure the green light appears.
Creating Your First Filter
This is the "brain" of the operation. Without a filter, autobrr will hear everything but do nothing.
Go to Filters and click Add New. Give it a name and click Create
Now you can pick the general criteria you want. Don't forget to select Indexers you setup earlier and hit Enabled
On the Movies and TV you can specify more specific criteria like titles, years, resolution etc. For titles you can use wild card.
The LOGs and troubleshooting
After setting everything you may need to wait a while before actual filter hit the channel. Head over to Logs to troubleshoot if no download happening after a while.
Make sure Autobrr can:
Join IRC server and the channel
Get a filter hit, for early testing using just single wildcard * to match everything
Download the .torrent files, make sure you enter the correct passkey
Conclusions
Autobrr is a great replacement for autodl-irssi. Easier to debug. Everything is accessible from it's intuitive web-ui. It does not need separate IRC client. Contact us Rapidseedbox support team if you have any question.