Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Jozzo@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

https://docs.seerr.dev/blog/seerr-release

We’re excited to announce a major update: the Jellyseerr and Overseerr teams are officially merging into a single team called Seerr. This unification marks an important step forward as we bring our efforts together under one banner.

For users, this means one shared codebase combining all existing Overseerr functionalities with the latest Jellyseerr features, along with Jellyfin and Emby support, allowing us to deliver updates more efficiently and keep the project moving forward.

Please check how to migrate to Seerr in our migration guide and stay tuned for more updates on the project!

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Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I could have sworn I read this announcement a couple of months ago.

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- plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yea they announced it months ago, but the first release of seerr just dropped today.
  
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  - Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Ah right, that makes sense!
    
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  - Ugurcan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I was checking just a few hours ago. Just in time, cool!
    
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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I hate how so many of the arr apps don’t describe what they do in a way that people who don’t already know can understand.

Even the tutorials and guides are frustratingly vague.

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- mapleseedfall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Maybe thats by design. Some sort of gate keeping
  
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- biscuit@lemdro.id ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Given it’s a suite of tools designed specifically to download copyrighted content, why are you surprised that descriptions are coy and elusive?
  
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  - PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Is it for downloading illegal content? i can’t tell
    
    I assume some of it is related to torrenting, but I can’t tell which ones and how much. They can’t all be for torrenting, right???
    
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- Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ll be honest, only the first setup gave me some trouble as I was tackling docker compose too. After you gain familiarity setting up a new arr is basically copying the provided yaml service then filling in the envs with yours
  
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  - WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    ok, but why do I want to use this? what does it do? what is its purpose?
    
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  - Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I am very familiar with a decent amount of the words used in this comment.
    
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- Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I agree it took many months to figure out my arr stack and the configuration with API keys and server ip addresses. I used countless resources and guides and it didn’t help. Now I can do a fresh install of jellyfin and the arr stack in less than an hour after finally figuring it out but wow was it a hard learning curve. I have paper notes trying to decode which tools does what I was so confused
  
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Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Good news!!

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blinfabian@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
there goes the opportunity to call it Joeverseerr

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BaroqueW@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
No idea what either of these were in the first place. Feels like it could have been worth a mention in the post.

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- daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ve tried to set various of these apps up in the past - I used to do tech support; I am a geek - and for whatever reason, I could never get all the parts working right. I assume many people can since they’re popular, but it just never clicked for me.
  
  But I have a pretty good workflow - a seedbox running rutorrent which allows me to send magnet links to it just clicking them in Firefox, with emby installed so I can stream from the box - or easily connect via FTP to download when I prefer.
  
  That’s the nice thing - there’s a number of ways to accomplish the goal, so finding the one that works well for you is what’s important.
  
  That said, I don’t remember which ones these are, but I think it began with “Sonarr” to download music and the various somewhat-similarly named projects are about finding and downloading various forms of media automatically based on rules or searches or keywords or whatever. Which is nicer than my system of reminders that stuff should drop and I should go look for a torrent for it. :)
  
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wltr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ve missed both projects. What were they? Are they like Jackett or Prowlarr?

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- slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Media requester for Plex and Jellyfin. But also tells you where things are streaming. A mix between IMDB and JustWatch.
  
  Overseer was for Plex
  Jellyseer was for Jellyfin
  
  Now we have Seer one platform to do both.
  
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- zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  If you just host for yourself, you don’t gain that much by using Seerr, besides having a nicer UI and you have more search filters compared to Sonarr and Radarr.
  
  However, if you have multiple users, you benefit a lot of it. Users, which have individual user accounts, can request media. Depending on the configuration, those requests have to be accepted manually, which gives you a way to still be in control of what ends up on your server. The user then gets notified about what has happened and if the media was downloaded.
  
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  - ieGod@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Honestly the UI is so slick even a one-user setup will benefit in my opinion. Even when not requesting media I use it extensively to look up actors and directors.
    
    Possibly the best foss UX I’ve ever used.
    
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  - Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I still prefer it as the only user so I don’t have to switch between Radarr and Sonarr. I also find the search to be much better than either of those
    
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- BrightCandle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The fact it recommends popular stuff is a useful addon feature, its a good way to look at what others are watching.
  
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Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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NAT Network Address Translation

Plex Brand of media server package

SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption

[Thread #98 for this comm, first seen 16th Feb 2026, 17:20] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Doesn’t seem like OIDC made it into the new release, weird. It’s been working fine on the preview branch for ages.

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myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That was one smooth transition! 🚀

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- dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  No kidding! Copy and paste the contents of the previous container to a new directory for the new container, sudo chown -R /path/to/directory, docker pull the new image, and bobs your uncle. So relieved I didn’t have to reconfigure all the *arr integrations and whatnot
  
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  - Kushan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I just changed my compose reference to update the volume and base image. Worked a treat.
    
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  - myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    yea that would have been a pain indeed! I feared that too, pleasantly surprised now 😁
    
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eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I don’t quote get what this is supposed to do. Is it basically a software to allow jellyfin/plex users to request media without needing a radarr/sonarr account?

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- 1984@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Basically yes. My father can log into Overseer with his Plex account, so no new account and password, and request movies or tv shows which I can approve manually or pre-approve. I don’t have to give him admin access to my Sonarr or Radarr and the user interface is quite friendly.
  
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- EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yes.
  
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- IzzuThug@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Also great for finding trending content, ratings, trailers, and also all the work an actor/actress has done.
  
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- gravitas@lem.ugh.im ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  sonarr and radarr only have support for a single account wich among other things exposes api keys.
  
  Seerr lets you have users with the same login as they use for jellyfin (or plex?) To request content and the server admin can approve or deny rhe request.
  
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prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I was surprised to see emby mentioned. I thought they shot themselves so hard in their feet with the licensing changes back then that there was a reason that we only hear from jrllyfin these days.

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- Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You mean when they went closed source? I know Jellyfin is all open source but apparently rougher UX all round… and Emby is miles better than Plex, not least because Plex has a scalp-worthy cost and too many paywalled features. Jellyfin to me is a purist alternative, libre software is ideal but you start to get a much weaker product.
  
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  - Yoddel_Hickory@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I wouldn’t say that Jellyfin is an inferior product nowadays, it is much better now, and has things Plex doesn’t have like easy free hardware transcoding
    
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- x00z@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Afaik Jellyfin and Emby use the same authentication so by adding Jellyfin support Emby automatically works too.
  
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  - Kushan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Jellyfin is a fork of emby (from when it went closed source), so that makes sense. They have diverged quite a bit but seems the Auth hasn’t changed enough.
    
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CoreLabJoe@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I switched over last night, migration guide here, it’s really easy!

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CAVOK@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Can this be used with i2p and anonymous torrenting?

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- Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This is a requesting client.
  
  What you want is solved by torrenting (and other) clients.
  
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  - CAVOK@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    But you connect it to a torrent client, right?
    
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Bombastic@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That was totally unexpected /s

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Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
So you no longer need a Plex account to use overseer?

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- x00z@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Overseerr required Plex. It was forked into Jellyseerr to allow Emby and Jellyfin accounts. Now Overseerr and Jellyseer merge into one tool called Seerr that combines the features. So no.
  
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Grimshaw@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Moved from overseerr to jellyseerr. Now from jellyseerr to seerr.

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narp@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I don’t know much about the *eerr stuff… Is there a good way to connect a debris service with that? I’m using Stremio+Torrention rn, but it’s crashing regularly or isn’t able to find magnet links.

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paper_moon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Anyone know if you can integrate this with a real-debrid account or similar service? I’ve been enjoying using real-debrid since I don’t have to worry about storing the stuff I’m watching.

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- gravitas@lem.ugh.im ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  No debrid support, this is for connecting to the Arrs services which work for either torrents or usenet.
  
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  - paper_moon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Right, but the debrid services handle torrenting, you send the torrent file and it downloads it for you, and shows up in your movies/shows folder when youojnt then with rclone. So all I would need this to do is send the requested torrent to the debrid URL instead of to the whatever does the actual downloading in the *arrs stack
    
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NAT	Network Address Translation
Plex	Brand of media server package
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption