I searched for ages for a replacement of something like torrentz, and the rarbg drop made me start the search again. I ended up trying the included search in qbittorrent, and I’m very happy with the results, it scans many public trackers, and I have always found what I wanted.
To be clear, qbittorrent is a desktop app for linux/windows/mac, that has a panel where you can search for torrents:
Using radarr/sonarr/jackett/transmission for a lil over a year now and forgot about searching for torrents like this already. Oh the pain.
the hunt is half the fun for me lol also maintaining a min 2.0 ratio in private trackers is like a game
I do love jackett as a search engine tho!
Might I interest you in Prowlarr as an alternative to Jackett? It handles the entire indexer process for the other *arr apps, so you don’t have to update each app independently.
This might make me sound like some kind of snob, but I wish Sonarr had the option to select 4k+HDR. It’s quite a noticeable difference if you are using HDR displays. There are a number of NF shows that get released in 1080p-HDR as well.
For me the loss of RARBG was more about the site’s quality and interface. Torrents aren’t hard to find but consistent quality and selection are (outside of a lot of private trackers). I liked that they displayed popular movies at the top so that I can keep up with what’s currently in vogue for my users (since i dont really see any ads anymore) without going through the extra effort of manually googling what new movies are coming out every few weeks.
something like torrentz
I feel like I’m the only person who used/remembers that site lol. I’ll definitely have to check out qbittorrent now.
also I was just informed about https://therarbg.com/
Woah is that legit?
It just seems to be a fork of what the old rarbg was, but nothing is official. They also threaten to DDoS every other fork of rarbg so they can be “the only one”
Exactly once the plugins installed, it is also the best way I have found to look for torrents. The Best feature is that it will put the Higher sources of the Search, Cross site on top.
in the search page of qbittorrent (view > search engine, if not visible. it should be a tab/button just below the top toolbar next to ‘transfers’), in the bottom right corner should be a “search plugins…” button. clicking “check for updates” autopopulated several for me, otherwise click “install a new one” after manually downloading any from this page
Go to the Settings there Will be a link to do so from github i believe it is very easy just a list to clic on, if I remember correctly.
Where is it in settings?.. I remember doing a search from qbittorrent a while back but I don’t see the option anymore…
seconded. i use qbittorrent search now almost exclusively for my torrent searches. no more jumping from site to site searching for what’s out there. of course, it’s not definitive, but it’s pretty good.
Why not take the next step and use the *arr suite to handle all that for you?
Day to day things are automated once I add movies/tv/music to the wanted lists. Maybe 5% of the time I search around manually if I’m looking for something really specific or want to build ratio on certain trackers.
It’s as simple as adding a title to a list and then waiting 10-15 mins for it to show up on my media server or adding an upcoming thing to a list and then getting it the instant someone uploads it at some point in the future.
My seedbox has the are suite as a single button install.
Since setting it up my torrent interaction is almost nothing. Just use an app (nzb360) to add movies or shows as I hear about them. And they just auto download when avaliable. It’s fantastic
