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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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
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[–] andicraft@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I did still use ChatGPT

> “not vibecoded”

> looks inside

> vibecoded

[–] egg82@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Not sure what you mean by that. I occasionally use the web UI as the tool that it is and I've played around with opencode, cursor, etc previously on other home projects to get a sense for where things are and what the limits of these things are. That said, I take pride in my own work and this project is no exception. Is there something in this project that makes you think I threw a prompt into cursor and am passing that off as my own? Or are you against the idea of using an LLM and consider any person or project using them at all to be vibecoded?

As a quick edit, I'll note that, since I documented any use of ChatGPT reasonably well in this project, you can see the number of times it was used and what it provided. I feel the contributions were largely inconsequential and really just time-saving on my end. I also vetted (and understood!) the output and modified it according to what I wanted. Personally, I don't consider that to be "vibe-coding" but I suppose everyone has their own definition.

Edit again: ugh, it's far too easy to focus on negative feedback and let that consume you. I am not going to defend my use of ChatGPT but I personally think that someone seeing the word ChatGPT and saying "oh so this is vibe-coded" is disingenuous to the project and my skills as a developer. I spent years learning and mastering Java and this is a lot of my experience and several weekends of my free time. Look, if you feel that the four uses of ChatGPT, much of which have been modified by my own hand and all of which inconsequential, constitutes a vibe-coded system then that's your take - but I don't think it's a fair take. There are many things to be said about the ethics of modern LLMs and over-reliance on them but personally I think understanding and effectively using tools at your disposal is a skill. If you want something completely free of LLMs these days you may very well have to invent the universe.

Phew. Okay, I'm off my soap-box. Consider me got. I'll try not to think about this too hard but it definitely feels bad pouring your time and skills into a thing and seeing that one comment saying "nah this isn't worth anything"

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago (3 children)

human-developed

Love the distinction. LOL

[–] egg82@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it's today's trend! One I happen to agree with, which is nice.

I'm trying to limit LLM exposure on this one to "as little as possible, within reason". It's still a tool and can be used effectively in some areas.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ppb1701@ppb.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@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.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ppb1701@ppb.social 1 points 1 day ago

@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.

[–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] aeiou@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

For some reason the hubub around non-AI software reminds me of produce.

'Guaranteed 100% locally open-sourced, free-range, ~~GMO~~AI-free code!'

[–] trollblox_@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

except GMOs aren't actively harmful while AI is

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

GMO's create a societal harm, not a physiological one. Patenting a cultivar of a plant is a slippery slope, and we have already had quite a slide. In theory, if somebody works very hard to breed a new cultivar, they deserve to reap the rewards of that work and protect their creation. Okay, that makes sense. But if I have all the ingredients to breed that same cultivar, and do all the same work myself, should they be able to restrict my ability to profit? A step farther, and this is the reality we inhabit. Monsanto has created an environment where their patented corn seed is the best bet for a profitable harvest, but farmers are required to sign highly binding contracts with ridiculous stipulations. Beyond that, if a neighbor farmer dares to plant non patented seed, and the wind blows his neighbors Monsanto pollen (corn is wind pollinated) into his field and it pollinates his crop, he is now in patent violation of a company he has no business with that is now going to aggressively come after him in court. This is actually happening in the American Midwest.

[–] aeiou@piefed.social 2 points 23 hours ago

neighbor farmer dares to plant non patented seed, and the wind blows his neighbors Monsanto pollen (corn is wind pollinated) into his field and it pollinates his crop, he is now in patent violation of a company he has no business with that is now going to aggressively come after him in court.

so it is like AI - it spreads everywhere and creates a lot of legal problems

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe we should have some rating system like Rated PG, or R, etc but for opensource software:

  • 100% AI
  • AI Assisted
  • Human Coded
[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  • 100% AI
  • Human supervised
  • AI Assisted
  • Human Coded

It's better is more fine grained.

[–] pokexpert30@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago

Stealing this for my projects that are 100% human supervised. I used "vibe coded" so far but I felt I still brang a lot.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I expect as there is a shift to vibe coding, saying "human coded" is going to be similar to "free from artificial colours and flavours".

[–] lmr0x61@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

100% ethically-sourced, organic code

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I like that.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

“free from artificial colours and flavours”

LOL

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you explain what is huntarr?

[–] minoche@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's for movies and tv to "find and fetch missing or upgradable media." Huntarr was the go-to app but it had security concerns and the maker's responses were negatively received. In the last couple of weeks, some people have presented AI slop replacements for Huntarr.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

people have presented AI slop

that has been happening in this community a lot recently.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In this day and age, shouldn't it be Gatherarr? You know, sustainability and all...

[–] egg82@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be called Foragarr then?

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Why not skip ahead in time a little and call it farmarr?

[–] EmoPolarbear@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

Agricultarr?

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[–] hesh@quokk.au 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Since Sonarr et al already find/upgrade missing media, what is the use case for this exactly? Is it finding stuff they miss? Or does this replace them?

[–] egg82@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

That's an interesting point. In my years of running them all I've always needed a third-party something to upgrade or find missing media. I don't exactly know why the built-in systems don't work, but they genuinely do not seem to. I'll occasionally see a scan go off but, for some reason, nothing ever gets picked up.

So, yeah; long story short, the built-ins don't work and I don't know why and this was still easier than trying to figure it out.

Edit: if you're curious, give Fetcharr a try and let me know if it does anything for you. It's free and takes a couple minutes. It should be pretty immediate, if your experience ends up being anything like mine.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not to dimish your work at all, but: the Sonarr upgrades absolutely do work.

[–] egg82@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

honestly if they work for you then awesome! Maybe mine is misconfigured somehow or maybe I just have bad luck, but Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, etc have never caught everything. Once I started playing with this I realized just how much I was missing.

Either way, if your current system works for you then I don't usually recommend changing it. Give it a try if you want- the worst it can do it accidentally find something that could be upgraded or missing. Or if you'd rather leave your stack alone that's perfectly fine as well.

[–] exu@feditown.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sonarr and Radarr heavily rely on quality profiles you need to define, for examples see TrashGuides.

Your system probably needs less setup in comparison

[–] egg82@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

ah, yeah, that would make sense as to why these types of systems are so popular. Since I'm a devops type by trade, my arr stack lives in a couple of kubernetes clusters. I use a Configarr cronjob with a fairly customized configmap to sync the trash guides with some minor preference edits. Maybe my issue is that it's too defined, but I think if that were the case I wouldn't be getting any benefit out of Fetcharr. Honestly even if it weren't the case you'd think I'd at least be picking up movies that are completely missing. I'm not sure what to blame, here, but if other people are verifying that the builtin systems work for them (as well as something like Fatcharr does) then I assume it's a skill issue or bad luck on my part.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They do, but only by passively monitoring RSS feeds for new content that exceeds your current quality. They don't do active upgrade searches unless you manually trigger them.

The distinction is important if you imported some or all of your media library, rather than building it from scratch with the arr stack stuff. It also matters if you source some your content via providers that don't have RSS feeds.

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[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Interesting, thank you! You should consider using the builtin Description GitHub provide for repos

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[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] JuvenoiaAgent@piefed.ca 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

See https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1rckopd/huntarr_your_passwords_and_your_entire_arr_stacks/

TLDR: huntarr was vibe-coded and had tons of security issues. When the "developer" was confronted, he nuked the git repo, his github account and all his social media accounts.

[–] hesh@quokk.au 15 points 1 day ago

It was vibe-coded and exposed all of your API keys publically

[–] egg82@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it was strangled to death by the maintainer (probably) after a breaking story on Reddit about its security flaws though since they disappeared from the internet nobody knows for sure what happened to it.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

Yowza. Thanks.

[–] ttyybb@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've never heard of Huntarr. What is this?

[–] egg82@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

that's a decent point. Not everyone knows about the Huntarr saga (Reddit link but that's where the story broke) and what it did.

The idea is that you'll occasionally want to go through all your media and make sure it's the best quality available and that nothing's missing. New releases get published, remuxes sometimes fix issues, etc. This little CLI container goes through and periodically searches everything you connect it to, so you don't have to sacrifice hours of your weekend doing manual hunting.

Edit: as a couple have pointed out this is supposed to happen automatically with built-in searches. In my experience this isn't the case but ymmv and if what you've got works for you then that's great!

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I had a quick look, I think I could find a use for it but what I'd most be interested in is a dry run spitting out a list of missing / low res / low bitrate / stereo (I much prefer 5.1+), perhaps old codec, etc. media. Like many I have my own standards for what needs to be how good and so forth.

Ideally I could edit said list and put it back in as an active search list (perhaps chunking and prioritizing as well and iterating the process). Seems like this is 90% of the way there, any chance of an enhancement ?

Bit reluctant to just let someone else's code go ham on my media library without a me in the loop step.

[–] egg82@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

if you haven't yet, I'd check out Configarr and the trash guides as a baseline to create profiles that upgrade media to a certain standard so simply hitting the search button will give you what you want. That's likely the best option, though it could theoretically be done in Fetcharr itself.

I don't want to balloon the project but I had an idea early on that people would want customization if I released it, so I thought about adding a sort-of "plugin" system where Fetcharr loads jar files from a directory and they get an API to access and use as needed.

I haven't figured out the details yet. That'll be another weekend, or a contribution from someone. The idea and skeleton is there, though.

Edit: missed the dry run part. That's a great idea! The worst that can happen is that it triggers upgrades (there's no code to modify anything) but it's still a reasonable ask.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t want to balloon the project

Fair cop, and no I haven't really dived into Configarr and the trash guides (although I vaguely remember coming across them), oh joy, another rabbit hole. I do try to keep a simple stack, and what I have has served me well for years. But thanks, no need to reinvent the wheel if that handles my use case.

Having smaller projects with specific scope that do something well and can be plugged together is always preferable to some sprawling monstrosity. Used to be called the Unix way (pipe sed into awk etc.) and could stand to be revisited today. Best of luck.

[–] egg82@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

glad to send someone on another Sunday rabbit hole! To be clear, Fetcharr is essentially automatically hitting the "search" button for you on a few semi-random items in your library. If your profiles are set up well, it will naturally handle the rest itself.

That said, there is a plan-in-my-head for "plugin" support so I don't end up shoving a bunch of stuff into one app but still allow anyone to make something they need. If profiles don't fit your use-case then that'll be an option at some point in the future.

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