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Initial Setup

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:

  1. Setting up subtitle providers
  2. Setting Language Profile
  3. Connecting Sonarr and Radarr

Setting 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

Setting 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.

Connecting 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.lwxxx.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.lwxxx.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

Downloading 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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