• obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      23 days ago

      I do love piracy and I do do it sometimes. But sometimes I don’t want to spend 20 minutes finding a torrent and then another 30 minutes to an hour waiting for it to download.

      My main issue with it is that I have to pre-plan if I want to watch anything through that method.

      • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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        23 days ago

        That’s what automation is for.

        Whenever I come across an interesting movie/show; I open a webpage that I host, search for a title (results from imdb) and click ‘add+search’.

        ~15min later, it’s available for me, my friends, and my family to watch on my own private streaming service. (for such reliably quick downloads, I recommend usenet over torrents)

        Sonarr, Radarr, Emby/Jellyfin

        Other users besides me can even request content via Ombi.

        • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          23 days ago

          that’s sounds so complicated, just downloading it myself is easier
          if someone made one application to install and set it up automatically id probably try it though

          • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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            23 days ago

            My setup is a conglomeration of a quite a few different pieces; but they are not all required. I’d encourage you to explore, start small and expand into new pieces/areas when you feel comfortable. I started this ~8 years ago with basically 0 knowledge of hosting web services; and just built up the knowledge through exploration over time.

            If all you’re looking to do is watch movies, and you’re happy to play the downloaded media directly on your pc (or move the files around manually, just like manual torrenting); the only piece you need is Radarr.

            Once setup; You tell it what movies you want to watch, it searches for those using the indexers you’ve given it (YourBittorrent, TPB, and BadassTorrents for example), choses the best results out of them all based on things like upload date, seeds, quality descriptors in the title, etc. Then passes that to your torrent/usenet client. Finally it will rename and sort the files into nicely organized media folders for you, once the download client has marked it as complete.