https://github.com/egg82/fetcharr
Disclaimer: I am the developer
Long story short, after Huntarr exploded I still wanted an app that did the core of Huntarr's job: find and fetch missing or upgradable media. I looked around for some solutions but didn't like them for various reasons. So, I made my own.
No web UI, configured via environment variables in a similar manner to Unpackerr. It does one job and it does it (a little too) well. Even when trying a few different solutions for a few days each, Fetcharr caught a bunch of stuff they all missed almost immediately. This is likely due to the way it weights media for search.
Since you made it this far, a few notes:
- I did still use ChatGPT on a couple of occasions. They're documented and entirely web UI - no agents. Anything it gave me was vetted and noted in the code before publishing.
- The current icon is temporary and LLM-generated. I've put out some feelers to pay an artist to create an icon. Waiting to hear back.
- It's written in Java because that's the language I'm most familiar with. SSL certs in Java containers can be painful but I added some code to make it as easy as Python requests or Node
- While it still has a skip-if-tagged-with-X feature, it doesn't create or apply any tags. I didn't find that portion necessary, despite other popular *arrs using it. Not sure why they do, even after developing this.
- Caution is advised when first using it on a large media collection. It'll very likely pick up quite a number of things initially if you weren't on top of things beforehand. Just make sure your pipeline is set up well, or you limit the number of searches or lengthen the amount of time between searches using the environment variables.
My only real conundrum with AI coding, is totally relying on AI as the dev, then releasing it for public use without really knowing what happens behind the scenes and obviously the security of said app. Now if the dev is using AI as an assistant, and the dev is knowledgeable enough to know that things are operating securely, I'm ok with it.
Also people who think they can just vibe code without ever learning how to code for real. I'll "vibe code", but I'm also 10+ years experienced. I can quickly detect bullshit from the AI and I check pretty thoroughly.
Some dentist turned vibe coder will make absolute trash
We have IDEs and all kinds of tools to help us code. AI is just another tool. Granted, it's a tool that needs some heavy regulation, but a tool nonetheless.
@irmadlad @reabsorbthelight in the case of coding also needs supervision. it would totally push to prod on friday closing time lol. But yes it can be a useful tool for certain things....n ot everything the AI companies try to tell us.
Of course not. They are sales. They are trying to maximize the profit potential to their investors. I do believe that if we could get some oversight and regulation, as much as I chafe against regulation....it's necessary, and get past this novelty stage of AI Rice Cookers, I think AI does have a lot of potential.
@irmadlad yep. right now it's like the wild west and in large part they come off a snake oil salesman. But there is some truth there since for some tasks it can be helpful.
Yeah, there's a version of using AI to help with coding that's more along the lines of cobbling together pieces from tutorials to figure out how to do something and making it fit your needs rather than just straight up asking for code and blindly adding it. It's obviously not going to be as good as code from someone experienced who's managed to internalize the relevant documentaion, but it's at least informed by a human who understands what it's doing