Prowlarr

Prowlarr is an indexer manager/proxy built on the popular arr .net/reactjs base stack to integrate with your various PVR apps. Prowlarr supports centralized management of your indexers.

It integrates seamlessly with Lidarr, Mylar, Radarr, Readarr, and Sonarr, offering complete management of your indexers with no per-app indexer setup required.

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How do I access Prowlarr?

Prowlarr is available:

• From your dashboard: https://your-username.elfhosted.com
• Directly: https://your-username-prowlarr.elfhosted.com

How do I use it?

Internal Indexers

ElfHosted maintain several internal indexers which are pre-configured in Prowlarr. By default, only ElfCache is enabled; the others target specific use cases and you'll enable the ones relevant to your stack. To add any of these manually (if your subscription pre-dates their pre-configuration), follow the instructions below.

ElfCache (enabled by default)

ElfCache is ElfHosted's combined cache for TV and movie torrents. It aggregates results from every cache-source ElfHosted runs (DMM scrapes, public-addon searches, internal hash discovery) into a single Torznab endpoint, so a single indexer query reaches the full pool. ElfCache is the default search target for Radarr / Sonarr / Sonarr 4K, and is what most users will hit for cache-backed grabs.

Add an indexer named ElfCache as a Generic Torznab indexer, as follows:

• URL: http://elfhosted-internal.zilean/torznab/
• API: /api

CatBox (disabled by default; enable for TorBox users)

CatBox exposes TorBox's cache as a Torznab indexer, so Radarr / Sonarr can search it directly for releases TorBox already has hashed and ready to materialize. Pair this with CatBox as a qBittorrent download client for the full TorBox-backed library flow. Real-Debrid users do not need this.

Add an indexer named CatBox as a Generic Torznab indexer, as follows:

• URL: http://catbox:8080/torznab
• API: <leave empty>

Debridge (disabled by default; enable for Balrog users)

Debridge exposes ElfHosted's Debridge cache as a Torznab indexer, so Radarr / Sonarr can search cached Debridge results directly before submitting the selected release to Balrog. Pair this with Balrog as the qBittorrent download client for the full Debridge-backed personal media stack flow.

Add an indexer named Debridge as a Generic Torznab indexer, as follows:

• URL: http://elfhosted-internal.debridge
• API path: /v1/torznab
• API key: your Debridge key
• Redirect: enabled
• Sync Profile: Standard
• Indexer Priority: 20

ElfBitMagnet (disabled by default; enable for books, music, etc.)

ElfBitMagnet is an internal indexer that classifies content using TMDB and provides a Torznab interface for querying. It's most useful for content categories outside what ElfCache covers (books, music, software); for TV / movies, ElfCache is preferred and gives broader cache coverage.

Add an indexer named ElfBitMagnet as a Generic Torznab indexer, as follows:

• URL: http://elfhosted-internal.bitmagnet/
• API: /torznab

ElfZyclops (disabled by default; enable for Usenet users)

ElfZyclops is an internal NewsNab-compatible NZB cache built from all ElfHosted NzbDAV activity. Every NZB ingested by an ElfHosted NzbDAV instance is anonymously submitted to the cache (the NZB reference, not the media itself), making subsequent searches faster and reducing duplicate API calls to external indexers.

Add an indexer named ElfZyclops as a Generic Newznab indexer, as follows:

• URL: http://elfhosted-internal.zyclops
• API key: a comma-separated list of your Usenet provider hostnames or backbones (e.g., news.provider.com,reader.provider2.com, or backbone names like usenetexpress,highwinds)

After adding, sync the indexer to your Radarr / Sonarr instances. See the NzbDAV app page for the full ElfZyclops explanation, including how to opt out.

FlareSolverr

ElfHosted users have access to an internal FlareSolverr instance to support cloudflare-protected indexers. See our FlareSolverr docs for configuration details.

Enabling apps

All the supported apps are pre-configured in Prowlarr, but set to a disabled state. To enable Radarr and Sonarr, for example, you'd edit each disabled app, check the "Enabled" checkbox, and test and save.

Then "Sync app indexers" to have Prowlarr sync your indexers to the supported, enabled apps

External access (i.e. TorBox)

To enable access to your Prowlarr instance from outside of ElfHosted's infrastructure (i.e., from a TorBox account), you'll need to change your preconfigured API key, and add the Prowlarr Exposed product to your subscription.

The "exposed" product explicitly disables SSO for Prowlarr's API, allowing Prowlarr's API (but not web UI, so there's no need for extra authentication) to be accessed externally. Configure your external service (like TorBox) with your Prowlarr URL (https://<username>.elfhosted.com/prowlarr) and your API key.

Prowlarr also works with

• FlareSolverr

• Radarr

• Sonarr

How do I get support for Prowlarr?

1. For general use of Prowlarr, refer to the official site or to one of the links in the resources section below.

2. For specific support re your ElfHosted configuration / account, see the ElfHosted support options!

Sponsor Prowlarr ❤️

You can contribute directly to the development of Prowlarr using the following:

• Open Collective

• GitHub Sponsors

• Bitcoin

Prowlarr resources

• Prowlarr (official site)

• Prowlarr subreddit

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