To start off with. I have Sonarr setup correctly. Its set up in Docker running in Container Station on QNap NAS. Dragon Ball Super is the TV Series that I am currently working with. About four weeks ago DBS episodes/releases stopped downloading automatically. After some light research I discovered that some subset of torrent sites were pressured to shut down by the powers that be [crunchyroll, funimation,etc]
I sought a different technique to restore the automatic downloads of DBS. I discovered FetchRSS.com This 3rd-Party mostly free online service will allow you to manually define a RSS feed. You first go to the torrent site of your preference and perform a search that produces the desired search result list. Then you copy the URL in the address bar to FetchRSS.com and FetchRSS will allow you to map the attributes of the RSS Feeds that you’re creating to the various elements and selectors on the torrent site’s search results list. When fully mapped it would look something like this…
The other indexer templates didn’t seem to like the generated RSS feed. However, even though the two indexers that did successfully test and accept the generated RSS feed URLs, they didn’t grab the desired release.
When inspecting the logs, all I got was the following…
After initiating a manual search and producing zero search results the logs indicate what is plainly obvious but little else.
So my question: Is there a location with more detailed logs? If not, how can I enable more detailed logging? What other troubleshooting tips can you provide?
Does those Indexer Templates only work with torrent files and not a magnet links?
To check whether magnet links or torrent file links would make a difference, I tried setting up a FetchRSS feed for LimeTorrents which uses torrent file links in addition to magnet links. During feed setup I made sure to select the torrent file link during feed setup. Aside from that the setup process was the same.
This time it generated a different message in the logs…
I suspect they have some Anti-DDOS process that is looking for a real user. Perhaps by using referrer rather than captcha.
But I suspect that there are dozens of other sites that use Anti-DDOS tech and I am sure both Radarr and Sonarr use them and successfully download torrents from them. Also, When I load the URL in the error it loads without issue. And that is a direct load of the page without a referrer. So, I don’t know what’s going on.
I also do not understand why… in my first post… the error log refers to an invalid torrent file when, … in that case… it was supposed to be using a magnet link. That was the source of my question regarding magnet-v-torrent links.
You’re right. That is a torrent file. But that wasn’t the error I was referring to. I was talking about the error log from my initial post. My initial post was generated by setting up The Pirate Bay’s FetchRSS feed in Sonarr and as best as I can tell TBP doesn’t use torrent files. Only magnets. Well, at least that’s what I’ve been able to discern with my searches of DBS.
> Couldn't add report to download queue. [Funimation DUB] Dragon Ball Super - 101 [1080p] [EXIL3]; Invalid torrent file specified.
Could be that it didn’t properly indicate what it was so Sonarr treated it as a torrent and that failed because it wasn’t actually a torrent (Debug logs and/or trace might give a better idea what went wrong.
Magnet links need to start with magnet: for Sonarr to treat them as such.