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Initial Setup

In this guide, we'll be setting up LazyLibrarian for the first time. 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

Securing your WebUI.

Upon loading LazyLibrarianLazyLibrarian, You will need to navigate to Config to list all the settings required to begin theusing useLazyLibrarian; of LazyLibrarian, Youryour first step must be to go to interface > Access Control > Fill in the desired Username and PasswordPassword, then click save.Save. You will need to restart LazyLibrarianfrom your Control Panel,Panel; thenthen, upon startingstarting, you will need to loginlog in with your new details.

Connecting your Download client

weWe will continue by adding Downloaders. Switch over to the Downloaders tab.

NZBGet

NZBget Details (NON SSL) Value
NZBGet Host Servername.usbx.me
Port Port taken from Ultra.cc Control Panel
Username Username taken from Ultra.cc Control Panel
Password Password you set during install of NZBget
Category You may need to set a new Category in NZBget for this to do soso, 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 Zero

Sabnzbd

Sabnzbd Details (NON SSL) Value
Sabnzbd Host Servername.usbx.me
Port Port taken from Ultra.cc Control Panel
Username Username taken from Ultra.cc Control Panel
Password Password you set during install of Sabnzbd
Category You may need to set a new Category in Sabnzbd for this to do soso, access Sabnzbd WebUI and go to Config (Cog Icon) >> Categories
Priority This can be left at Zero
Sabnzbd API Key Found in Sabnzbd WebUI and go to Config >> General >> Scroll down for your API Key
Sabnzbd URL Base This can be Leftleft blank as this is a non SSL Connection
Ext Host/Port This can be left blank as Sabnzbd is being runruns on the same machine as LazyLibrarian.

Deluge

Deluge Details (NON SSL) Value
Deluge Host Servername.usbx.me
Daemon Port Port taken from Ultra.cc Control Panel
Username Username taken from Ultra.cc Control Panel
Daemon Password Password you set during install of Deluge
Label You may need to set a new Label in DelugeDeluge. forFor thisthis, to do soso, access Deluge WebUI and go to Preferences plugin's then enable Label pluginplugin. thisThis will bring up label in the left left-hand panel right right-click this to add a new label.
Download Directory This can be left blankblank, and Deluge will use the defaultDefault Download Directory
Deluge Certificate This can be Leftleft blank as this is a non SSL Connection
Deluge URL Base This can be Leftleft blank as this is a non SSL Connection

rTorrent

ruTorrent Details (NON SSL) Value
rTorrent Host https://Username.Servername.usbx.me/RPC2
rTorrent User Username taken from Ultra.cc Control
rTorrent Pass Password taken from Ultra.cc Control
rTorrent label Can be left blank
rTorrent Directory Leave blank

Adding Your Content Providers

With your Downloaders addedadded, we now move on to the Providers tab in Config

Torznab (Jackett Required)

Torznab Connection Details Value
Name User Defined Name
Checkbox to the right of Name Be sure to tick this to enable the provider
Torznab URL This is the URL taken from Jackett’Jackett's Blue "copy Torznab Feed”Feed" button
Torznab API Jackett’Jackett's API found in the top right right-hand side of Jackett WebUI
Priority This can be left as Zero
Seeders By defaultdefault, this is set to ZeroZero, which is fine if you are in no hurry for the contentcontent; otherwiseotherwise, set this to one.
Types Refers to the type of content that will be searched for Audiobooks, eBooks, Magazine’Magazine's, Comics,

Be sure to click Save changes after inputting your valuesvalues, as this will keep the information safe and create a new Torznab Provider for you to fill in.

Newznab (Newsgroups)

Newznab Connection Details Value
Name User Defined Name
Checkbox to the right of Name Be sure to tick this to enable the provider
Newznab URL This is the URL taken from your providersprovider's particular connection information
Newznab API This is the API Key taken from your providersprovider's particular connection information
Priority This can be left as Zero
Types Refers to the type of content that will be searched for Audiobooks, eBooks, Magazine’Magazine's, Comics,

Be sure to click Save changes after inputting your valuesvalues, as this will keep the information safe and create a new Newznab Provider for you to fill in.

Configuring Automatic import and Sorting

The nextfollowing 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 cataloguecatalog
New Found Status Recommended to set as wanted as anything new found in aan autherauthor catalougecatalog will likely be wanted
New Series Status Recommended to set as wanted as you will likely want any thinganything 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 folderFolder, for example /homeX/usbdocs/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 folderFolder for any content that matches any wanted content. It should be a different folder to your main download directories

Adding your first 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 right-hand corner.

The next screen will present you with your possible resultsresults. justJust click the green button to add the author.Author.