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Blocking releasegroups from Sonarr/Radarr [edit] or rather blocking malware regardless of name (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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.

[EDIT]

OK, so I have been looking at this from the wrong angle.

It is not these groups that I'm upset with, but malware uploaders masquerading as release groups. These names can and will change, making this a game of wack-a-mole if I try to fight it this way.

Initially I'd followed instructions below to block these names/strings being grabbed by the arrs and that does work fantastically; but as above, wack-a-mole. Plus both SuccessfulCrab and ELiTE have plenty of good releases out there, it's not their fault someone's using their names.

So, I'm now running Cleanuparr.

This will maintain a large list of unwanted filetypes in qbittorrent. Then when qbit marks a torrent as complete because there are no wanted files, cleanupparr removes it from both qbit and the arr that requested it, while also triggering a new search for the item.

It can also cleanup items failing to import, stalled downloads, torrents stuck downloading metedata, or things that are just absurdly slow; with varying time scales/stringency.

I'll run this for a bit and see how it goes.

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[–] plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You can also approach this by blocking file types at the download client.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, I missed that. My bad.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks 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.