LazyLibrarian
In this guide, we will be setting up LazyLibrarian for the first time. LazyLibrarian is a program to follow authors and grab metadata for all your digital reading needs. This guide assumes the following:
- You have a working Torrent Client Setup
- You have LazyLibrarian installed and ready for configuration
- You have Jackett installed for use with certain Providers
Configure Authentication
- Upon loading LazyLibrarian, You will need to navigate to
Configto list all the settings required to begin using LazyLibrarian. - First, navigate to Interface > Access Control.
- Then fill in the desired
UsernameandPassword, and click Save. - You will need to restart LazyLibrarian from your User Control Panel.
- Once restarted, you will need to log in with username and password that you previously set.
Connect Download Client
- We will continue by adding Downloaders. Switch over to the Downloaders tab.
NZBGet
Details (NON SSL) | Value |
NZBGet Host | servername-direct.usbx.me |
Port | Port taken from UCP |
Username | Username taken from UCP |
Password | Password you set during install of NZBget |
Category | You may need to set a new Category in NZBget for this to do so, access NZBget WebUI and go to settings >> Categories >> Scroll to the bottom add new >> save changes >> restart NZBget when prompted |
Priority | This can be left at 0 |
SABnzbd
Details (NON SSL) | Value |
Sabnzbd Host | servername-direct.usbx.me |
Port | Port taken from UCP |
Username | Username taken UCP |
Password | Password you set during install of Sabnzbd |
Category | You may need to set a new Category in Sabnzbd for this to do so, access Sabnzbd WebUI and go to Config (Cog Icon) >> Categories |
Priority | This can be left at 0 |
Sabnzbd API Key | Found in Sabnzbd WebUI and go to Config >> General >> Scroll down for your API Key |
Sabnzbd URL Base | This can be left blank as this is a non SSL Connection |
Ext Host/Port | This can be left blank as Sabnzbd runs on the same machine as LazyLibrarian. |
Deluge
Details | Value |
Deluge Host | username.servername.usbx.me |
Daemon or webUI Port | 443 |
Username | Blank |
Password | Password you set during install of Deluge |
Label | You may need to set a new Label in Deluge. For this, to do so, access Deluge WebUI and go to Preferences plugin's then enable Label plugin. This will bring up label in the left-hand panel right-click this to add a new label. |
Download Directory | This can be left blank, and Deluge will use the Default Download Directory |
Deluge Certificate | This can be left blank |
URL Base | deluge |
If the above connection details does not work, try using those shown below.
Details | Value |
Deluge Host | Deluge’s Remote Client Access IP Address (found on UCP) |
Daemon or webUI Port | Deluge’s WebUI port under Port Details |
Username | Blank |
Password | Password you set during install of Deluge |
Label | You may need to set a new Label in Deluge. For this, to do so, access Deluge WebUI and go to Preferences plugin's then enable Label plugin. This will bring up label in the left-hand panel right-click this to add a new label. |
Download Directory | This can be left blank, and Deluge will use the Default Download Directory |
Deluge Certificate | Blank |
URL Base | Blank |
qBittorrent
Details | Value |
qBittorrent Host | https://username.servername.usbx.me |
qBittorrent Port | 443 |
Username | Ultra username |
Password | Password you set during install of qBittorrent |
Download Directory | This can be left blank, and qBittorrent will use the Default Download Directory |
URL Base | qbittorrent |
rTorrent
Details (NON SSL) | Value |
rTorrent Host | https://username.servername.usbx.me/RPC2 |
rTorrent User | Username taken from UCP |
rTorrent Pass | Password taken from UCP |
rTorrent label | Can be left blank |
rTorrent Directory | Leave blank |
Configure Automatic Import and Sort
The following section is Processing. We will highlight only the sections that require editing to help speed up the Setup Process.
Status
Status Option | Value |
Missing Book Status | Recommended to set as wanted as any Missing items you will likely want to fill |
New Book Status | Recommended to set as wanted as any new releases from an author you will likely want to fill |
New AudioBook Status | Recommended to set as wanted as any new releases from an author you will likely want to fill |
New Authors eBook Status | Recommended to set as wanted as any new releases from an author you will likely want to fill |
New Authors AudioBook Status | Recommended to set as wanted as any new author added will likely have a back catalog |
New Found Status | Recommended to set as wanted as anything new found in an author catalog will likely be wanted |
New Series Status | Recommended to set as wanted as you will likely want anything from a new series |
Include other books by new authors | This will include details for other books by new authors found in wishlists or csv files, or when manually importing a book by a new author |
Folders
Folders Option | Value |
Download Directories | Should be set as your main download client completed folder, for example /home/username/files. You can add multiple by separating them with a ,(comma) |
eBook Library Folder | Folder you'd like to store your Ebook formats in after processing |
AudioBook Library Folder | Folder you'd like to store your Audiobook formats in after processing |
Alternate Import/Export Folder | Think of this as a Watch Folder LazyLibrarian will watch this Folder for any content that matches any wanted content. It should be a different folder to your main download directories |
Add Author
- Your first step in adding a new Series/Author/ISBN Number, is to click Series in the top bar and locate the Search bar in the right-hand corner.
- The next screen will present you with your possible results. Just click the green button to add the Author.
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