• BlackAura@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Since no one really answered you, there are generally two routes.

    If you use newsgroups you can run sabnzbd, which is a service that downloads from newsgroups. I’ve been out of the loop for a while but there used to be something like CouchPotato for movies or SickBeard for TV (which migrated to SickChill, though you shouldn’t use that anymore as it installed a crypto miner last I heard). Lastly you sign up with a news indexer (look up Nzb.su or nzbgeek.info). CouchPotato could be linked to your imdb watch list.

    Plug all of those together with API keys, and now movies on your imdb watch list just show up in your plex library as they become available.

    Now if you use Torrents instead of newsgroups, there are similar things that all exist, I’m just less familiar with them.

    • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Ah, interesting. I’m actually only (barely) familiar with torrents, insofar as I have downloaded qBitTorrent and enabled its embedded search. I search for thing, sort by most seeds, and choose first relevant one. Usually it all goes well. Plex on my Mac watches the downloads folder, and the TV has Plex installed.

      It works, but at least from my limited view of its search results, the seas seem to be drying up. I feel like there are better, non-default searches I could be adding. There was some kind of Jacket plugin that refused to load so it’s just disabled.

      Am a very inept pirate 🏴‍☠️