Bazarr
Bazarr is a companion application to Sonarr and Radarr that manages and downloads subtitles. Some of the features of this app are the following:
- Downloads subtitles automatically using your set subtitle sources, languages, etc.
- Automatically scans and upgrade previously downloaded subtitles
- Integration with Sonarr and Radarr
Be aware that Bazarr doesn't scan your slot to detect series and movies: It only takes care of the series and movies indexed in Sonarr and Radarr.
In this guide, we'll be setting up Bazarr for the first time. This guide assumes the following:
- You'll be setting up your library for the first time, and your library is saved locally under
~/media - You have both Radarr and Sonarr installed and configured
We'll be doing the following steps:
- Setting up subtitle providers
- Setting Language Profile
- Connecting Sonarr and Radarr
Set Up Subtitle Providers
- Upon successful installation, wait for up to 5 minutes for Bazarr to initialize.
- After clicking Connect on the UCP, you'll be shown Bazarr's General settings.
- On subtitles options section, Leave all options as-is
- Plex requires that subtitle files should be at the exact location as your movie file for it to be detected
- You may add the API key or account login for any anti-captcha service you may use on this page, included are Anti-Captcha or Death by Captcha If you happen to add one of these options, be sure to press Save in the top left-hand corner
- Then enable the subtitle providers that you wish to use. Click Providers on the left-hand side, tick your required providers, and click save to complete the providers' page
- Some providers require you to add your credentials. Be sure to enter it accordingly
- some providers need an anti-captcha API key.
- Under languages on the left-hand side, click the drop-down box on enabled languages and select your preferred languages for Bazarr to search
- Then you can set the defaults for both Series and Movies
- Here, you can set the default parameters and languages that you wish to search and download.
- You can leave them as default and set them later or do it now, as shown in the following screenshot
- Once that's done, click Next
Set Language Profile
- Go to
Settings -> Languages - Choose the Language(s) you wish to have your subtitles in.
- Click on
Add New Profile - Name the profile as per your preference.
- Click on
Add. - Here you can add multiple languages to form a list.
- Set the Cutoff as per your preference. For more information visit here.
- Click on
Save. - Under Default Settings, check
Series&Movies. For both of them, choose the profile you just created. - Click on
Savein the top left.
Connect Sonarr and Radarr to Bazarr
- Login to your Sonarr instance and go to Settings -> General
- Then under Security, copy the API key provided
- Go back to Bazarr. Under Settings > Sonarr, enable Use Sonarr and input the following
Hostname or IP address: username.servername.usbx.me
Listening port: 443
Base URL: sonarr
SSL enabled: On
API Key: >paste Sonarr API key here<
Download Only Monitored: Enabled (Recommended)- Once that's done, click the Test button to validate the settings.
- If it shows a green text indicating that Bazarr is successfully connected to Sonarr.
- Repeat the same steps on Radarr, using the following information:
Hostname or IP address: username.servername.usbx.me
Listening port: 443
Base URL: radarr
SSL enabled: On
API Key: >paste Radarr API key here<
Download Only Monitored: Enabled (Recommended)- To get Radarr's API key, select Settings -> General and copy the API key Under Security Settings
- Click Save to save your changes once testing is passed
Download Subtitles
- At initial setup, Bazarr will add your existing entries on your Sonarr/Radarr instances search for existing subtitles from their root folders. Both series/movie entries are found in Series and Movies, respectively.
- If there are no entries on either of the two, you can force to refresh by going to System -> Tasks (Red Box) and click the Refresh icon on the following tasks in order.
- Update Series list from Sonarr
- Update Movie list from Radarr
- Update all Episode Subtitles from disk
- Update all Movie Subtitles from disk
- Depending on the size of your library, this could take a while.
- If everything is set, you can now download subtitles. You can opt to do the following
- Let Bazarr download the subtitles by itself. There's an automated task that downloads wanted subtitles daily.
- Force Bazarr to download wanted subtitles by either
- Going to Wanted and click Search All on Series or Movies
- Go to System -> Tasks and click the following
- Update all Episode Subtitles from disk
- Update all Movie Subtitles from disk
- Depending on your library, this will take a while to search and download your subtitles.
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