Torrents

General

Hydra allows searching torrent search engines via the torznab protocol. For this you can install Jackett or Cardigann. Add your torrent search engines there and then add Jackett/Cardigann to Hydra as an indexer.

Torrent black hole

Hydra does not support downloaders for torrents, mainly because there are so many of them. Instead you can define a black hole folder in the "Downloading" section of the config. An icon will be displayed for torrent results. Clicking the icon will trigger the download of the torrent in the defined folder. Configure your torrent downloader to import torrents from that folder.

Magnet links are also supported. If a program is associated to magnet: links on the same machine as the one Hydra is running on (and not in a container) you can click the button described above to send the links to that program.

Note: Torrent support (via Jackett) is a bit experimental. While it may work well with some trackers it might not work well with others. Especially anime indexers seem to cause some troubles. If you get unexpected results or categories don't match you'll need to add your trackers manually to your tools.

Torznab endpoint

Hydra will not select any torznab indexers for default external API requests. External tools using the regular API endpoint cannot handle torznab results.

But there's a specific endpoint for torznab: /torznab. If you have multiple torznab engines you can add them to Hydra and then add Hydra to any tool that supports torznab using the URL <yourUrl>/torznab. Everything described in External API, RSS and cached queries applies here as well.

Please note that the category mapping for torrent search engines is very wonky. Results may get mapped to a wrong category so if you chose to enable a torznab indexer only for certain categories this may result in all results being thrown away. This feature was added for shits and giggles and to be honest I didn't consider general purpose indexers to be used - I only use specific indexers (movies and shows).

Note: A bug may cause duplicate torznab results (over time). See #6