Feature Parity with Hydra

Author: rg9400Created Mar 18, 2021Updated Sep 15, 2026
LabelsType: Feature RequestStatus: Help Wanted
  • Stats:
    • 1. Uniqueness Stat
    • 2. Successful Downloads by indexer
    • 3. Recompute stats by using a multi-select category filter up top. So it can be possible to see stats for Books or Music + Audiobooks
  • Search History:
    • 1. Show ID or RSS queries
    • 2. Show categories and source in table
  • Download History:
    • 1. Show success/fail by download
    • 2. Allow regrab of specific download
  • Downloader:
    • 1. Give option to configure Downloader, allow sending results to this downloader
      • * Create option to upload NZB to downloader or to send link for manual downloads No plans for an option Q
      • * Need to make sure internal links can be used when sending to downloader, even if Prowlarr is being used behind RP
    • 2. Give option to configure blackhole for torrents
    • 3. Handle magnet links for Torrents
    • 4. Update status of downloads from Downloader No Plans Q
    • 5. Potentially show download queue? Hydra does this, but seems not super important No Plans Q
    • 6. Give default category-wise options for manual downloads, with option to override
  • Categories:
    • 1. Create custom categories No Plans Q
    • 2. Override search types No Plans Q
    • 3. Allow restrictions to be applied for API or manual searches or both
    • 4. Category-specific restrictions such as required words, regex, forbidden words, forbidden regex, size restrictions
    • 5. Ignore results
  • Statuses:
    • 1. Show indexer API hits and downloads compared to limits
    • 2. Show current state, last error, and if disabled, when it was disabled and until when
  • Searching:
    • 1. Timeout No plans to make this an option Q
    • 2. User Agent
    • 3. Map external user agents
    • 4. Ignore load limiting/errors
    • 5. Handle Torznab categories or ignore them
    • 6. Map indexer specific categories to internal categories
    • 7. Convert Media IDs for indexers (TMDB to IMDB for example)
    • 8. Generate queries when indexer does not support IDs
    • 9. Fallback to generated queries if no results found arr should handle the fallback Q
    • 10. Global restrictions (word filters, forbidden posters, max results age, min seeders, ignore passworded releases)
    • 11. Option to remove trailing garbage (obfuscated, scrambled, postbot) - Undecided, feels like arr job Q
    • 12. Use original categories from indexer or ones configured internally
    • 13. Dupe detection
    • 14. Cache results - Not sure there is a big need for this Q
  • Manual Searching:
    • 1. Ad-hoc filters for search type, age, size, indexer
    • 2. Allow pre-selection of indexers, with easy options to invert, select all usenet, select all torrent, select all
    • 3. Allow ID based searches for relevant search types
    • 4. Pull NFO/covers from supported indexers
    • 5. Color code results so it is easy to visually correlate which indexer it is vs having to read from a bunch of data
    • 6. Configure how many results to display per page
    • 7. Configure how many results to pull intially, with option to page through more as needed (Hydra gives option to load all results or next 100, but no way to load say a user-defined amount, e.g. next 500).
    • 8. Show duplicate display triggers
    • 9. Group TV results by season/episode
    • 10. Show already downloaded indicator, give option to hide already downloaded results
    • 11. Multi-select, download as ZIP or send to nzbget
    • 12. Ad-hoc filter and sort results by title, indexer, category, size, number of hits, age
    • 13. Link to indexer, manual download, or directly send to downloader.
  • General Settings:
    • 1. Configure how long to keep history/stats
    • 2. Dereferer for indexer access
    • 3. Disable SSL/SNI for specific hosts
  • Indexer:
    • 1. Option to proxy or redirect for API downloads, maybe by indexer?
    • 2. VIP Expiry Date, including Lifetime option
    • 3. API and Download limits by indexer
    • 4. Scheduler for Indexers (I don't use this)
    • 5. Timeout override by indexer (I don't use this)
    • 6. Hit reset time, with option for rolling resets
    • 7. Load limiting
    • 8. User Agent Override
    • 9. Custom Parameters
    • 10. Preselect for manual searches
    • 11. Enable for API or manual searches or both
    • 12. Color for visualization in manual searches
    • 13. Overrides for cats, search IDs, search types, caps
  • Notifications:
    • 1. VIP Expiry notification

AB#62