Make Radarr/Sonarr UI Obsolete with Lists

If after all that it still sounds like work, try lists!

Make Radarr/Sonarr UI Obsolete with Lists

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Connect Radarr/Sonarr to IMDB, TrakTV and other lists so you basically never have to open their UI ever again. You add that crazy movie to your IMDB watchlist and Radarr picks it up!

Initial Setup

Setting up Radarr/Sonarr et al is quite easy and fast with a docker-compose but after that.. The configuring begins. It takes some time to setup Heimdall, Sonarr, Radarr, connect the indexers and download clients etc.

After that you need some additional configuration with Profiles and Quality: it takes some tinkering before it starts downloading files that exactly match your quality and file size requirements.

Once all that is setup to your hearts content though, you only really need to access Radarr/Sonarr when there is something new you want to follow or download.

Or is it?

Configuring Lists

Go to Settings > (Import) Lists

Worth noting:
Perhaps you want to follow a list but not everything. This is of course possible. Filter entries in the lists based on their Rating, Genres, Year(s), or just a hard max limit.

Advanced Lists Options:
List Update Interval: Radarr/Sonarr will only check every x hours for changes on your lists
Clean Library Level: if you follow “IMDB Popular Movies” together with this setting, you will always only have 100 movies on your hard disk. Use this if you have limited storage capacity!

Autoconfigured

Follow these lists with just a few clicks:

  • IMDB
  • Trakt.tv
    • TrakTV Popular, Trending, Anticipated
    • TopWatched: By Week/Month/Year/All Time
    • Recommended: By Week/…
    • A Specific User or List
  • TMDB
    • A specific User, List, Person, Company, Collection or Keyword
    • Popular, Theaters, Upcoming, Top
  • StevenLu: An algorithmic list of movies that look popular by a numeric heuristic.
  • Plex Watchlist
  • more…

Your IMDB Watchlist

Add at: Settings > Lists > IMDb Lists > Custom

After creating your IMDB account, go to your watchlist and click Edit:

IMDB - Edit your watchlist

Once on the edit screen:

  • Note the lsXXXXXXXX number in the URI – this is the List/User ID you need to add in Radarr
  • Click on the Settings button and make your list publicly available so Radarr can reach it

IMDB - Edit your watchlist

Then once in IMDB, click on the top left corner of a movie poster to have it added to Radarr!

IMDB - Watchlist

Trakt.tv Directors

User origin14 on Trakt.tv manually maintains a list of movies made by famous directors.

Add a Trakt List with Username: origin14 and List name one of the following:

Lists
Update your movies/series collection automatically by following lists. Lists that are updated by either you, someone else or by an automated system.
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