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To be clear, this is just a joke, and I don't look down on direct downloading. It absolutely has its place, and sometimes I do it myself if it's just faster to download a file directly. Torrenting is just so much more convenient, though, especially when using Jackett's manual search.

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[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is Jackett's manual search? Never heard of it.

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Jackett is a program that allows you to configure multiple indexers (torrent sites, like 1337x, EZTV, RuTor, Nyaa.si, etc.) in a single interface, that way you can search through all of them at the same time. Jackett, and another program just like it called Prowlarr, is usually used in conjunction with the .arr suite of programs (Radarr, Sonarr, etc.), but it includes a manual search function that allows you to query all the indexers you have set up in the interface at the same time. That's exclusively what I use it for.

So, for example, I have 22 indexers set up in my installation of Jackett. I can use the manual search function to search through all of them at once, then I can sort the results by seeder count, publish date, and file size, and I can filter through the results to find exactly what I'm looking for. Once I've found the file I want, I can copy the magnet link directly from the search results and paste it into Qbittorrent. It's an extremely easy way to find files quickly, and it's much more efficient than manually going to a bunch of different torrent sites to search for a file that might not even be available there. With Jackett, I've literally never once had a case where I wasn't able to find what I was looking for. That's how good it is.

[–] yossarian@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can take this a step further and use Qbittorrents built in search function to query your jackett indexers. No reason to leave the Qbit webui

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I actually have done that, but Qbit's built-in search doesn't have the same search filtering options. For instance, I can't sort torrents by upload date on the Qbit web-ui (this is the most important missing feature, imo), or set it to only search certain indexers and not others, and it has no category related options. It has the essentials, but the Jackett interface is just cleaner and more feature rich in my opinion. That's why I stopped using the Qbit search engine in favor of Jackett.

[–] lemming007@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Don't you need to find 22 indexers to make that happen? Are these all public trackers because I don't think there are even that many left. Or are you using private trackers? I tried using Jacket but it's no good without having indexers, I thought it comes preinstalled with indexers

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Jackett comes preloaded with 574 indexers, and none of the ones I use are private. All of mine are public indexers, you just have to know the names of some popular torrent sites. I discovered half the indexers I use from people on r/Piracy (before the migration) talking about how much they like how they work. That's how I found Idope, Knaben, and Torlock. Others, like 1337x, Nyaa.si, LimeTorrents, and EZTV are all indexers I was familiar with as I had used them personally and recognized them when I clicked into the "add indexers" drop-down on the interface. Barring all that, you could just ask someone else to send you a screenshot of all the indexers they use on their Jackett setup. Here's a list of the ones I use. Adding indexers to Jackett is basically the easiest part, and you only have to do it once.

[–] lemming007@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I must have tried a different application before(not Jackett) because this one is totally different and I do see the preinstalled indexers and they work great! Now, is there an Android client for Jackett? My ideal scenario would be to search all my Jackett indexers from a nice Android app and tap a magnet link. I already have a torrrent app (Transdroid) installed on my Android so it would take it from there.

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm not sure if they have an android version of Jackett. It would be a dream come true if that were the case, but I'm sure it would be listed in the Jackett github page if a mobile version was available. Sadly, there's no mention of anything like that on the github page.

Really glad to hear you were able to get Jackett working, though! It really is an amazing program.

[–] lemming007@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm, I couldn't figure out how to add them, so I gave up. I'll have to try it again

[–] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does come preinstalled with them, that's the whole point of Jackett. You just need to enable them in the dashboard.

[–] lemming007@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What? Now I'm confused, when I installed it and tried searching there was nothing. I could go configure them but I didn't know what to do there. EDIT, never mind, I was confusing Jackett with something else, Jackett works great.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there anything like this that I could use on Android?

[–] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not what you asked for but torrent-CSV can be helpful for you

[–] thedrivingcrooner@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this run on Android though?

[–] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

You can use either web version or android app. Fun fact, it's made by the creator of lemmy

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't torrent on mobile, so I have no idea if a mobile equivalent to this exists, sorry.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I see, I do all my torrenting on my tablet because that's where I watch the movies anyway