Can this be used with i2p and anonymous torrenting?
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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Moved from overseerr to jellyseerr. Now from jellyseerr to seerr.
I don't quite get what this is supposed to do. Is it basically a software to allow jellyfin/plex users to request media without needing a radarr/sonarr account?
Yes.
Also great for finding trending content, ratings, trailers, and also all the work an actor/actress has done.
Basically yes. My father can log into Overseer with his Plex account, so no new account and password, and request movies or tv shows which I can approve manually or pre-approve. I don't have to give him admin access to my Sonarr or Radarr and the user interface is quite friendly.
sonarr and radarr only have support for a single account wich among other things exposes api keys.
Seerr lets you have users with the same login as they use for jellyfin (or plex?) To request content and the server admin can approve or deny rhe request.
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I’ve missed both projects. What were they? Are they like Jackett or Prowlarr?
The fact it recommends popular stuff is a useful addon feature, its a good way to look at what others are watching.
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I was surprised to see emby mentioned. I thought they shot themselves so hard in their feet with the licensing changes back then that there was a reason that we only hear from jrllyfin these days.
Afaik Jellyfin and Emby use the same authentication so by adding Jellyfin support Emby automatically works too.
Jellyfin is a fork of emby (from when it went closed source), so that makes sense. They have diverged quite a bit but seems the Auth hasn't changed enough.
You still see remnants in the logs.
You mean when they went closed source? I know Jellyfin is all open source but apparently rougher UX all round.. and Emby is miles better than Plex, not least because Plex has a scalp-worthy cost and too many paywalled features. Jellyfin to me is a purist alternative - libre software is ideal but you start to get a much weaker product.
I wouldn't say that Jellyfin is an inferior product nowadays, it is much better now, and has things Plex doesn't have like easy free hardware transcoding
I main jellyfin. It lacks:
- default SSL
- Carrier grade nat relay.
- caching the TVDB and movie DB.
- Centralized login and account management with 2FA
- fast search on large libraries.
I end up using it with tailscale, but that's well out of reach for my friends and family who share my Plex stuff.
- default SSL
Reverse proxy or configuration in the admin settings
- Carrier grade nat relay.
Not the point of an open source server. That's your issue.
- caching the TVDB and movie DB.
Why?? But anyway, Jellyfin can poll those for metadata
- Centralized login and account management with 2FA
There is a plugin to do OpenID
- fast search on large libraries.
Can't comment on that. My library is small (<10TB)
Reverse proxy or configuration in the admin setting
I didn't say I could recreate Plex in my homelab. I said Jellyfin has short comings.
Not the point of an open source server. That’s your issue.
Moving the goal posts, The point of this exercise is to show how Jellyfin is a direct replacement for Plex. If you say that it is not, my points stand that it is lacking.
caching the TVDB and movie DB.
Every new user that moves from Plex to JF just hammers the fuck out of the free and open services. When one of those services has any issue at all, we're collectively in bad shape. Plex has protection against this. It would be useful if we cached their stuff and threw it into a DHT, crowd refreshing it.
There is a plugin to do OpenID
This does not work for anything by pc clients. if you feed a roku, appletv, android TV, samsung television, visio... a 2FA prompt, it'll tell you to get bent. THEN there's the half assed fail2ban they made instead of surfacing the logs someplace that we could use real fail2ban, but now you have ME complaining that I can't hack features into it where there's no reason they're not already there.
Can’t comment on that. My library is small (<10TB)
Their search sucks balls even for small libraries. They know it and they've been working on it for years. There are some crazy hacky solutions screwing with ports and moving traffic through elastic-cache. it's extremely hacky.
In the end, I'm using Jellyfin as my own personal media server and the media server for my family in my house. It's not as safely designed as Plex, which itself has had some security issues in the past, but they have a paid team for that, You can't even hack all the features Plex has into your home lab, I could stick it behind cloudflare and get SSL, some proper anti hammer, anti-abuse, but then I'm selling my watch habbits to cloudflare.
I'm glad we have Jellyfin, I wish I had the skill and time to contribute, if they'd even PR a big-ass change like 2FA, last I heard they were standing on the "that might lead people to port forward it openly which would be less secure", like people aren't already doing that.
I'd LOVE to get rid of my Plex, it's just no where near as capable for my remote users, I can't force grandma to run tailscale.
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In a recent version they improved the database a lot and now search is much faster.
They also removed the SSL config stuff from the UI, using a reverse proxy is the correct way to do this.
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Doesn't seem like OIDC made it into the new release, weird. Unless I missed something in the documentation. It's been working fine on the preview branch for ages.
That was totally unexpected /s
So you no longer need a Plex account to use overseer?
Overseerr required Plex. It was forked into Jellyseerr to allow Emby and Jellyfin accounts. Now Overseerr and Jellyseer merge into one tool called Seerr that combines the features. So no.
I don't know much about the *eerr stuff.. Is there a good way to connect a debris service with that? I'm using Stremio+Torrention rn, but it's crashing regularly or isn't able to find magnet links.
Anyone know if you can integrate this with a debrid service?
No debrid support, this is for connecting to the Arrs services which work for either torrents or usenet.
Right, but the debrid services handle torrenting, you send the torrent file and it downloads it for you, and shows up in your movies/shows folder when you mount them with rclone. So all I would need this to do is send the requested torrent to the debrid URL instead of to the whatever does the actual downloading in the *arrs stack
I think decypharr might do what you want, it simulats a qbittorrent client to connect to debrid.
I appreciate the link, I'll look into it, thanks!
What you want to it withvis called sonarr/radarr
Explain how you think that would help.
Sent to the wrong comment lol. Disregard the previous one. Anyway: Sonarr/Radarr doesnt do any downloading. They just manage the sending of the task to the downloader and the import.