autobrr is download automation for torrents and Usenet, built around the announce rather than the RSS feed. Most indexers announce a new release on IRC the second it is uploaded; Radarr and Sonarr poll RSS on a delay, so by the time they see a release the initial swarm has moved on. autobrr watches those announce channels, runs each release through your filters — with RegEx support in the style of autodl-irssi — and pushes the match straight to a download client or to the *arr app of your choice. The latest release is v1.90.0 (November 2026).

Key Features

• IRC announce monitoring — Support for 100+ torrent trackers that announce on IRC, with the release grabbed in the same second it is uploaded.
• Torznab, Newznab and RSS indexers — Feed-based indexers that do not announce are treated the same way inside the app, so torrents and Usenet live in one place.
• Regex filtering — Powerful but readable filters in the autodl-irssi tradition, plus magnet support and per-indexer rules.
• Wide client support — qBittorrent (with re-announce, categories, rules and max active downloads), Deluge v1/v2, rTorrent, Transmission, Porla and aria2, plus SABnzbd and NZBGet on the Usenet side.
• Direct *arr pushes — Sends releases to Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, Whisparr and Sportarr for early swarm participation instead of waiting for RSS.
• Notifications — Discord, Telegram, Notifiarr, Pushover, Gotify, ntfy and Shoutrrr.
• Lightweight service — A single Go binary with a React web UI, packaged for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and macOS on x86 and ARM, with Docker and Kubernetes support.
• SQLite or PostgreSQL — Runs on the embedded database for a small setup or on PostgreSQL for a busy one.
• Authentication — Built-in login or OpenID Connect, with base-path and subdomain support for reverse proxies.
• One instance, many servers — Communicates with torrent, Usenet and *arr clients running on different machines.

Why Use autobrr?

Ratio on a private tracker is built by seeding early, and the earliest peers are the ones who grabbed a release from the announce rather than from an RSS poll minutes later. autobrr exists to close that gap: it listens where the news actually breaks, applies the same filters you would have written by hand, and hands the release to your client immediately. Because it also speaks Torznab, Newznab and plain RSS, it replaces the separate announce watcher and feed reader that a seedbox setup usually needs, and it can drive the whole chain — tracker to client, or tracker to Sonarr — from one filter.

Use Cases

• Grabbing new releases from IRC-announcing private trackers seconds after upload.
• Pushing matched releases straight into Sonarr or Radarr instead of waiting for an RSS cycle.
• Consolidating torrent and Usenet feeds behind one filter set and one history view.
• Automating a seedbox that runs qBittorrent, Deluge or rTorrent on a remote machine.

source at github.com/autobrr/autobrr