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Blocking releasegroups from Sonarr/Radarr [edit] or rather blocking malware regardless of name (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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.

[EDIT]

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.

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Ok, I think I've got this right?

Settings > Profiles > Release Profiles.

Created one, setup 'must not contain' words, indexer 'any', enabled.

That should just apply globally? I'm not seeing anywhere else I've got to enable it in specific series, clients, or indexers.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes.

Keep in mind it doesn't apply to file extensions. I forget if there's a feature request outstanding or if it was rejected.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Awesome. Thanks you two, I appreciate the help. :)

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think that’s right. Maybe the release profile needs to be applied to the quality? I’ll see if I can open my configs up and find where it applies.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Awesome. Thanks you two, I appreciate the help. :)

[–] yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you, you three, setting this up right away.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Check out the edited OP.

[–] yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the warning, I will do the same then, I was left wondering as I made the rules... Why would they keep using the same release name making it easy to find? This makes more sense :)

[–] theit8514@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I think if you didn't assign a tag on the Release Profile it applies to all series.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

This is how i do it and it's very successful. I have a group block list and terms blocklist. Just a nice baseline too have before you set up your regular quality profiles.

[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

Mh, I thought there was a way to do this with tags but this is probably it