Blocking releasegroups from Sonarr/Radarr

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Sonarr and Radarr keep grabbing releases from a couple specific groups ( ‘SuccessfulCrab’ and ‘ELiTE’) for items that clearly haven’t even aired yet. These almost always contain only .scr or .lnk files, which have been blocklisted in my torrent client. This leaves Sonarr/Radarr awaiting manual intervention for ‘complete’ downloads that contain no files.

How do I get them to block anything and everything that contain the strings ‘SuccessfulCrab’ and ‘ELiTE’ ??? I want them to stop even trying to grab anything released by those two groups.

I’m so sick of dealing with these.

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Hamknight@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I recommend just blocking those file types from being downloaded in your torrent client. It’ll still end up grabbing the torrents, but won’t download the files and just go straight to seeding at 0% downloaded. Easy to notice and delete before it poisons sonarr/radarr

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Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Check out Cleanuparr! I started using it after seeing it recommended somewhere on Lemmy and haven’t seen these annoying downloads since. It also deals with stalled/slow/stuck downloading metadata torrents.

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- Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m taking a look at this. It looks like it’s the malware blocker portion that I’m interested in, but if I enable it and ‘delete known malware’, it just complains every minute that there are no blocklists enabled. (though the documents say it’s supposed to fetch one from a pages.dev url that has almost no content)
  
  Do you have a specific malware blocklist configured? Enabling the specific service blocklists demands a url for one.
  
  I can host/build a list over time for these to use if that’s what I’ve gotta do; just wondering if there’s a public collaboration on one already on the go.
  
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- lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Same here 🙌
  
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Konraddo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Take a look at Profilarr. You can set fine custom conditions to block anything you want.

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CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
SuccessfulCrab is a legitimate scene group and ELiTE appears to be some sort of P2P x265-1080p transcode bot/group (their releases on IPT/TL look fine and go back quite a ways). I'd stop using whatever you're indexing from that's either serving you malware or failing to regulate the malware in its users' uploads. The real problem is that someone is mimicking these groups and putting out fake releases, so playing whackamole with the fake tags that that person is using is only treating the symptoms, and they can easily change the tag again.

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- _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  A lot of people don’t like the scene releases. They’re usually of lower quality compared to the best of what’s available. If you use the Scene custom format from TRaSH guides, it filters out the LQ scene groups like SucessfulCrab.
  
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  - CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    SuccessfulCrab only does WEB-DLs so “subjective quality” isn’t as much of an issue as it would be with the encoding groups, but yeah I agree that scene is usually best avoided if you have access to reliable P2P sources. Quality > speed for me any day.
    
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_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The TRaSH Guides should block those. They have SuccessfulCrab in one of the Scene formats. IDK about ELiTE, but you could add them into the format as well to filter them.

https://trash-guides.info/Sonarr/sonarr-collection-of-custom-formats/#scene

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plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The .scr and .lnk is more an issue with the trackers you’re using and not with those release groups, but to answer your question: create a custom format that looks for those groups in the release group field and then score them like -10000 in your quality profile.

Sonarr also has a new setting in to fail dangerous downloads like those so they won’t stay in your activity queue, it’s in the indexer settings.

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- non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You can also approach this by blocking file types at the download client.
  
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  - Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s what I’d already done as per the OP, but it leaves Sonarr/Radarr wanting manual intervention for the ‘complete’ download that doesn’t have any files to import.
    
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- Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This comment prompted me to look a little deeper at this. I looked at the history for each show where I’ve had failed downloads from those groups.
  
  For SuccessfulCrab; any time a release has come from a torrent tracker (I only have free public torrent trackers) it’s been garbage. I have however had a number of perfectly fine downloads with that group label, whenever retrieved from NZBgeek. I’ve narrowed that filter to block the string ‘SuccessfulCrab’ on all torrent trackers, but allow NBZs. Perhaps there’s an impersonator trying to smear them or something, idk.
  
  ELiTE on the other hand, I’ve only got history of grabbing their torrents and every one of them was trash. That’s going to stay blocked everywhere.
  
  The block potentially dangerous setting is interesting, but what exactly is it looking for? The torrent client is already set to not download file types I don’t want, so will it recognize and remove torrents that are empty? (everything’s marked ‘do not download’) I’m having a hard time finding documentation for that.
  
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  - plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The fail dangerous doesn’t work if you block it in the torrent client, so you’d have to actually download it but then sonarr would mark it as failed and not get stopped from downloading new items for that show. Neither option is perfect.
    
    See if you’re getting these bad torrent moreso from one particular tracker and then rethink about using that tracker.
    
    Best option is trying to get into some private trackers, pretty easy looking for open signups on lemmy or the dreaded reddit.
    
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EccTM@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You can do a custom format again the release title
  
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vinnymac@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Honestly we should just start a list we maintain, and then ask Sonarr/Radarr to offer a feature to pull from a URL of our choosing periodically. That way we can curate the blocklists as a collective rather than this manual bullshit.

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- _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Check out Trash Guides.
  
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  - vinnymac@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I am familiar, thanks though
    
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Codilingus@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I have Recyclarr setup to dynamically update and one thing it does is keep a current bad release group.

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asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I fucking hate SuccessfulCrab so much

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- pedro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  How come?
  
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  - adhocfungus@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’ve never had a download tagged as SuccessfulCrab that wasn’t malware. I don’t know enough about them to know if that’s their fault or the indexers’.
    
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cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think in quality profiles you can set up blockwords. I did that to block Dolby vision “DoVi” releases as I couldn’t get them to play reliably.

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- Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ok, I think I’ve got this right?
  
  Settings > Profiles > Release Profiles.
  
  Created one, setup ‘must not contain’ words, indexer ‘any’, enabled.
  
  That should just apply globally? I’m not seeing anywhere else I’ve got to enable it in specific series, clients, or indexers.
  
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  - Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This is how i do it and it’s very successful. I have a group block list and terms blocklist. Just a nice baseline too have before you set up your regular quality profiles.
    
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  - jlow@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Mh, I thought there was a way to do this with tags but this is probably it
    
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  - theit8514@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I think if you didn’t assign a tag on the Release Profile it applies to all series.
    
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  - frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yes.
    
    Keep in mind it doesn’t apply to file extensions. I forget if there’s a feature request outstanding or if it was rejected.
    
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  - cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I think that’s right. Maybe the release profile needs to be applied to the quality? I’ll see if I can open my configs up and find where it applies.
    
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