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Exclusions
The Exclusions list lets you permanently prevent specific titles from being searched by Nudgarr. Excluded titles are silently skipped in every future sweep — both Cutoff Unmet and Backlog searches.
Exclusions are matched by title (case-insensitive, exact string match). When a sweep runs, Nudgarr removes any item whose title appears on the exclusions list before the cooldown check, queue check, or search selection. Excluded items are never counted against the run's maximum — they are removed from consideration entirely.
Exclusions are global — they apply across all instances and both Radarr and Sonarr.
The most common way to add an exclusion is directly from History:
- Open the History tab
- Find the title you want to exclude
- Click the ⊘ icon in that row
- The title is immediately added to the exclusions list
On mobile, open the History tab from the bottom nav, then tap Add in the inner tab bar to see recently searched titles. Tap the + button next to any title to exclude it.
Open the Advanced tab and find the Exclusions section. Each excluded title has a Remove button. Removing it immediately makes the title eligible for future sweeps.
In the History tab, tap Excluded in the inner tab bar to see all active exclusions. Each title has a Remove button. The row fades and collapses before the removal is confirmed.
Exclusions are useful for titles you have a deliberate reason not to improve or acquire:
- Content you own physically and don't want a digital copy of
- Items with no reliable indexer releases — repeatedly searching wastes slots
- Content you've decided isn't worth the quality upgrade at this time
- Items that repeatedly trigger false positives in your indexer results
Exclusions are not the right tool for temporarily pausing a title — that's what the cooldown handles naturally. If you just searched something and don't want it re-searched soon, the cooldown already prevents that without an explicit exclusion.
Nudgarr excludes by title only. For Sonarr, this means excluding a show title will skip all episode searches for that show — but it won't remove it from your Sonarr library or un-monitor it.
If you want to stop Nudgarr from ever touching a show again and stop Sonarr from looking for it in RSS, the right approach is to un-monitor the show (or specific seasons/episodes) in Sonarr directly. Nudgarr only searches monitored content.
Exclusions are stored in the SQLite database at /config/nudgarr.db. They are persisted across restarts and container upgrades.