One common attribute of the fake torrents is that they present themselves as future episodes of the program. The feature I would request is to “Ignore torrents for unaired episodes”.
That would allow Sonarr to apply the logic merely to the torrent name and it’s already known air date for the episode.
Unlikely enhancement, as it was discussed way back in 2015.
I would also like to see this feature. Or at least make it so the Release Profiles check the file extensions or something. I’ve added the most common extensions to there, and the downloads still get added to my client. They’re blacklisted on my client, so they don’t actually download, but when it rejects them it makes Sonarr think they’re complete, so Sonarr doesn’t ever remove them, the torrent app doesn’t ever remove them, and I need to go in and do it manually.
Release profiles just look at the name of the release, not the files…
Prompted by a recent increase in the frequency of fake downloads, I recently installed Cleanuperr. In combination with qBittorrent’s blacklist, which stops files with dodgy extensions from downloading, Cleanuperr detects failed imports from Sonarr and automatically deletes them and adds them to the block list. It doesn’t stop Sonarr picking up the fakes in the first place, but it means I don’t have to worry about cleaning them up afterwards.
Thanks for this, I’ll definitely check it out.