NZBHydra is a meta search for NZB indexers. It provides easy access to a number of raw and newznab based indexers. You can search all your indexers from one place and use it as indexer source for tools like Sonarr or CouchPotato.
- I don't have anything to do with www.nzbhydra.com
- While this version still runs fine I recommend using its successor NZBHydra2 which runs a lot faster and has more features.
- Searches Binsearch, NZBIndex, NZBClub, Womble and all newznab compatible indexers (see https://github.com/theotherp/nzbhydra/issues/20 and https://github.com/theotherp/nzbhydra/wiki/Supported-Search-Types-And-Indexer-Hosts )
- Search by IMDB, TMDB, TVDB, TVRage and TVMaze ID (including season and episode) and filter by age and size. If an ID is not supported by an indexer it is attempted to be converted (e.g. TMDB to IMDB)
- Query generation, meaning when you search for a movie using e.g. an IMDB ID a query will be generated for raw indexers. Searching for a series season 1 episode 2 will also generate queries for raw indexers, like s01e02 and 1x02
- Grouping of results with the same title and of duplicate results, accounting for result posting time, size, group and poster. By default only one of the duplicates is shown. You can provide an indexer score to influence which one that might be
- Compatible with Sonarr, CP, NZB 360, SickBeard, Mylar and Lazy Librarian (and others)
- Either proxy the NZBs from the indexers (keeping all X-NZB headers), redirect or use direct links in search results
- Included function to add results (single or a bunch) to multiple instances of SABnzbd or NZBGet(v13+) and show NFOs where available. Option to decide if links are added as links or the NZBs are uploaded. Select category in GUI or define a default.
- Statistics on indexers (average response time, share of results, access errors), searches and downloads per time of day and day of week, NZB download history and search history (both via internal GUI and API): Screenshot
- Indexers with problems are paused for an increasing time span (like in sonarr)
- Multi user capabilities so that you can share with your friends but keep the config safe
- Login by HTTP basic auth or form
- Define required and forbidden words and regexes
- Fine tune categories with separate required and forbidden words. Completely ignore categories in search results. Map newznab categories to internal categories. Use indexers only for certain categories.
- Reverse proxy compatible. See https://github.com/theotherp/nzbhydra/wiki/Reverse-proxies-and-URLs
- Basic torrent support via Jackett / Cardigann. Only for internal searches.
- Dark theme, grey theme and Bright theme (slightly out of date)
If you downloaded the source run with Python 2.7.9+. Runs on http://0.0.0.0:5075 by default. See the console output on how to choose the port and host using command line parameters.
If you downloaded the windows release just start with NzbHydraTray.exe. Your default browser should open to the NZBHydra web interface.
You're also free to use the docker container by linuxserver.io. Although I do my best to keep that container nice and working please use their forum for support regarding that container.
You might need to install homebrew python. See this excellent guide or, if that doesn't work for you, here.
A systemd unit file is provided in the contrib
directory. To install:
Copy the systemd unit file into place
sudo cp contrib/nzbhydra.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/
Edit the systemd unit file, you'll need to correct the paths to nzbhydra.py
and python
. You can find useful instructions inside.
sudo nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/nzbhydra.service
Reload systemd to pick up the new unit file, enable it and then start it.
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable nzbhydra.service
sudo systemctl start nzbhydra.service
You can use status
, cat
and edit
to see how the service is doing, see what the current unit file is and to override any settings with your own values.
sudo systemctl status nzbhydra.service
● nzbhydra.service - NZBHydra Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nzbhydra.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2017-06-08 19:25:50 PDT; 25min ago
Main PID: 19503 (python2)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 112.8M
CPU: 37.298s
CGroup: /system.slice/nzbhydra.service
└─19503 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/lib/nzbhydra/nzbhydra.py --nobrowser --config /etc/nzbhydra/settings.cfg --database /var/lib/nzbhydra/nzbhydra.db
sudo systemctl cat nzbhydra.service
sudo systemctl edit nzbhydra.service
Install scripts are provided for Ubuntu upstart based systems in the contrib
directory. To install:
sudo cp contrib/defaults /etc/default/nzbhydra
sudo cp contrib/init.ubuntu /etc/init.d/nzbhydra
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nzbhydra
sudo update-rc.d nzbhydra defaults
Edit the default configuration options:
sudo nano /etc/default/nzbhydra
Start the service:
sudo service nzbhydra start
See the WindowsService folder in your NZB Hydra directory. It contains batch scripts to install and uninstall Hydra as a service. Run installService.cmd
with administrator rights.
Generally testing and any bug reports are very welcome.
Any pull requests are also welcome, but I feel I and the program would mostly profit from:
- Unicode handling. I have no idea what I'm doing.
- Advice regarding stability, error handling, net code (I program Java by day and it shows) and performance
Please send merge requests to the develop branch!
Send me an email at TheOtherP@gmx.de or a PM at https://www.reddit.com/user/TheOtherP
If you like to help me with any running or upcoming costs you're welcome to send money to my bitcoin: 1PnnwWfdyniojCL2kD5ZDBWBuKcFJvrq4t
To Jetbrains for kindly providing me a license for PyCharm - I can't imagine developing without it
To all testers, bug reporters, donators, all around awesome people
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