This guide will show you how to add all the indexers you have added in Jackett to both Sonarr and Radarr in a single step, instead of having to add each indexer individually. Doing things this way will not only save you time but will also guarantee that any future indexers you add to Jackett will be accessible to both apps without any added configuration. This guide not only applies to systems running the Unraid operating system but can be applied to any Sonarr and Radarr setup.
Please note that while Sonarr and Radarr can be used to download pirated material, I do not condone the use of these applications in that manner. I do not and do not intend to participate in the downloading of pirated and illegal files and recommend you don’t either. I will not be held responsible for any legal problems you encounter. Many, if not all, of the available indexers in Jackett do host pirated content and I do not recommend their use.
Sonarr and Radarr are to very popular personal video recorders (PVR) for series and films respectively. You will often find both installed on Unraid media servers, alongside Plex and a BitTorrent or Usenet client. Both applications are rather easy to set up but neither of them offer the ability to add any indexers, i.e. search machine for torrent files, out of the box.
Why Sonarr and Radarr need Jackett
For that reason, Jackett is an essential supplementary application for both Sonarr and Radarr. Jackett works as a proxy server and translates queries from Sonarr and Radarr into tracker-site-specific http queries. The results are then sent back to the application which in turn will add them to your BitTorrent client of choice.
Jackett does all of this using indexers you have configured for it to use. If you scroll to the bottom of the Jackett interface, it recommends you add each of these indexers to Sonarr and Radarr individually, which, in my opinion, is making things harder than they need to be.
This guide will not be covering the installation of Jackett, Sonarr, or Radarr. I will be solely describing how to add all indexers from Jackett to Sonarr and Radarr in one step. To be able to proceed you will need to have each application installed and accessible via the web interface. If using Unraid, these three applications are available from the Unraid Community Applications.
Configuring Jackett
Before getting started you will have to have added your indexers to Jackett. This can be done using the Add indexer button and selecting from the options from the presented list.
You can add as few or as many indexers as you wish, as the exact number won’t influence any of the following steps.
Adding all Jackett indexers to Sonarr
In Sonarr, navigate to the settings and select the Indexers tab. From there, add a new indexer by clicking on the large plus button. You will next be presented with a multitude of options of which all but one can be ignored. Scroll all the way down until you find the Torznab option. From that option, select Custom.
Fill in the following three fields and leave the rest as it is. Once done you can test the configuration and, if everything looks fine, save it.
- URL: Your Jackett IP address and port (e.g. https://192.168.1.17:9117)
- API Path:
/torznab/all/api(do not change this) - API Key: Your API Key is displayed next to the Jackett logo in the web interface
Adding all Jackett indexers to Radarr
While the setup used to differ, the process of adding all Jackett indexers to Radarr is now identical to Sonarr.
In Radarr you will once again have to navigate to the settings and add a new indexer. You will want to select the same option as seen previously from the list, a custom Torznab indexer. Enter the following details and save the configuration:
- URL: Your Jackett IP address and port (e.g. https://192.168.1.17:9117)
- API Path:
/torznab/all/api(do not change this) - API Key: Your API Key is displayed next to the Jackett logo in the web interface
About Liam Alexander Colman
I first heard of Unraid through the same medium as many of us did: The Linus Tech Tips channel on YouTube. At the time, I was running TrueNAS (or FreeNAS as it was called back then) on my DIY NAS built using a dual-core Intel Pentium G4400 at its heart. I was convinced, I had chosen the better operating system. After all, it was free and open-source and had a large community behind it. One day, after once again facing the need to buy another three hard drives, I seriously started researching Unraid and its features. I bit the bullet and gave it a go, transferring my data on to external hard drives that I later shucked and added to the Unraid array. Since that day, I have not looked back once, and I am now an enthusiastic and experienced user of Unraid. You can find out more about Unraid Guides right here.
