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"With inspiration and ideas from tools like trackarr, autodl-irssi and flexget we built one tool that can do it all, and then some. autobrr is the modern download automation tool for torrents."

Installation

autobrr is provided on our servers. Visit your Settings page to enable autobrr. Once setup is complete, select the button that says "Open Autobrr" to get started.

Setup

The official setup guide can be found on autobrr docs.

We modify the autobrr slightly to automatically connect to your download clients without requiring you to input your address, port, or username. If you want to connect to an externally hosted application, enable Expert mode (a feature we add) in the Add Client dialog.

Stop if storage plan storage is full

While the autobrr docs has a dedicated documentation page on a script that stops when the disk space is full, this does not properly work with Whatbox instances.

Instead, try check_space_available and configure an autobrr filter like so:

General

Min size: 1GB

Note: Up to preference, but important to do set a value, otherwise autobrr won't fetch the torrent file to calculate and populate the "{{.Size}}" variable we'll need in the next step.

External

(Add new with below settings:)

External filter
Type: Exec
Name: Check space available
On error: Reject

Execute
Path to executable: /home/user/check_space_available.sh
Exec arguments: -d /home/user/Downloads -r {{.Size}} -t 5900000000000 -n "{{.TorrentName}}" -l /home/user/check_space_available.log
Expected exit status: 0

Note: For Whatbox instances, convert the plan storage limit value with decimal values (1000), not binary values (1024). So 5.9 TB becomes 5900000000000 bytes, NOT 6487118603878.4 bytes.

Troubleshoot

Failed to Grab Torrents in Torrent Client

If your torrent client is unable to grab torrents from an autobrr release match, update your configuration under: Filters > Edit > Actions > Action Type

Change the action type to Watch dir instead of selecting the torrent client.

Default Watch Folders for Each Client

  • rTorrent – /home/user/watch
  • Deluge – /home/user/deluge-watch
  • Transmission – /home/user/deluge-watch

"No Active Filters Found" in Logs

If you’ve completed the configuration and it still doesn’t function as expected under Filters, please restart the autobrr from your Manage page.

Note

If you previously set up a custom instance of Autobrr and your config is stored in the standard location ~/.config/autobrr then switching to running the Whatbox hosted version will "just work" when you install and run it since it uses the same location.