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Self-Hosting Prowlarr: Indexer Management for Media

Prowlarr manages indexers for Sonarr, Radarr, and other media tools. One place to configure all your search sources.

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What Is Prowlarr?


Prowlarr is an indexer manager for the Servarr stack (Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr). It centralizes indexer configuration instead of configuring them in each app.


How It Works


1. Add indexers to Prowlarr

2. Connect Prowlarr to Sonarr, Radarr, etc.

3. Prowlarr syncs indexers to all connected apps

4. Changes in Prowlarr propagate everywhere


Features


Indexer Support

  • Usenet indexers
  • Torrent trackers
  • Custom indexer definitions
  • Indexer health monitoring
  • Stats and history

    • App Integration

  • Sonarr (TV shows)
  • Radarr (Movies)
  • Lidarr (Music)
  • Readarr (Books)
  • Lazy Librarian
  • Mylar3 (Comics)

    • Search

  • Manual search across all indexers
  • Category mapping
  • Quality filtering
  • Release profiles

    • Why Prowlarr?


    Without Prowlarr, you configure indexers separately in each app. With 5 indexers across 3 apps, that's 15 configurations. Prowlarr: configure 5 once.


    Deployment


    1. Deploy Prowlarr on TinyPod

    2. Add your indexers

    3. Connect to Sonarr/Radarr

    4. Indexers sync automatically


    Resources: 1 CPU, 128 MB RAM.


    Prowlarr is the glue that holds the media automation stack together. Essential if you run Sonarr or Radarr.