SickRage

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Automatic Video Library Manager for TV Shows. It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows, and when they are posted it does its magic. Development hosted on GitHub.

Installation

pip

Install pip for Python 3

  curl -s https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3 - --user

Add it to your PATH

  echo "PATH=\$HOME/.local/bin:\$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

Download SickRage.

 git clone https://github.com/SiCKRAGE/SiCKRAGE.git ~/sickrage

Install python module dependencies

 pip3 install --user -U -r sickrage/requirements.txt

Change Your Bash Timezone. If you haven't set your Bash Timezone, your logs and television schedule will be incorrect.
Start SickRage. Port 19495 has been automatically generated for you, but you may use another 5 digit port between 10000 and 65535.
```
 python ~/sickrage/SiCKRAGE.py -p 19495 -d
```

You can now access SickRage at http://server.whatbox.ca:19495

Node.js (optional)

Node.js is required for certain search providers to function properly. Complete only the installation section.

Automatically Restart

Below are steps to take to have your SickRage instance automatically restart if it crashes, or if the server is rebooted.

Make a file to be used for the script. touch ~/sickrage_restart.cron

Edit the file and enter the text below. nano -w ~/sickrage_restart.cron

#!/bin/bash
if pgrep -fx "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/python /home/anachronist/sickrage/SiCKRAGE.py -p 19495 -d" > /dev/null
then
    echo "SickRage is running."
else 
    echo "SickRage is not running, starting SickRage"
     python ~/sickrage/SiCKRAGE.py -p 19495 -d
fi
exit

Save the file with Ctrl+x, y and Enter to accept overwriting.
Make the script executable. chmod +x ~/sickrage_restart.cron
Open your crontab. EDITOR=nano crontab -e

Enter the following text at the end of the file.

@reboot /home/user/sickrage_restart.cron >/dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * /home/user/sickrage_restart.cron >/dev/null 2>&1

Save the crontab with Ctrl+x, y and Enter to accept overwriting.

Usage

Open your browser and navigate to http://server.whatbox.ca:19495 to access the SickRage web interface.