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:
- Set up subtitle providers.
- Set Language Profile.
- Connect 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 Save in 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, go to
Settings > Generaland 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.
If you require further assistance, you can open a support ticket here!
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