Initial Setup
Is a meta search for newznab indexers and torznab trackers. It consolidates all of your Usenet indexers into 1 intuitive page. The following are the apps' features:
- Ability to search all of your indexers on one page
- Can send downloads from search results into your Usenet downloaders
- Use it as an indexer source for tools like Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr or CouchPotato
- Multi-user support
For more information about this app, you can visit their GitHub repo.
This guidesection will show you how to setupset up NZBHydra2 for the first time. You'll be doing the following steps
SettingYourUpusernameUsernamefor NZBHydra2 will be your service username andPasswordthe password you set during the install procedure.- Add Usenet Indexers
Getting NZBHydra2 API for use with other programs
Initial Setup
Setting Up your Username and Password
Upon connecting, you'll be greeted by this window. Click OK to close the window.
Go toConfig -> AuthorizationChoose the auth type that you want. In this guide, we'll be usingLogin formUnderRestrictions, enable everything.
Once that's done, scroll up and clickSaveand restart when asked.
You may also set more user accounts and restrict certain areas of the instance in this page.
AddAdding your Usenet Indexers
- Go to Indexers and click Add new indexer
- Then here, you can add your indexers. You may look into the preset configurations specific to your
indexersindexers, or you may look into adding yourownindexer.
- Listed below are the fields that might be relevant to you.
- Name: Name of Indexer
- Host: The Hostname of the indexer
- API Key: The API key from your account
- API hit Limit and Download Limit:
UsuallyUsually, NZBHydra2 detects thisalreadyalready, but you may add your account's Download and API limit here if you wish.
- You may have to refer to your Usenet indexer for their specific configuration.
- Once added, it'll check the connectivity and the capabilities of your indexer.
- Once that's done, click Save.
- After restarted, you will see the search page with your set indexers.
Getting NZBHydra2 API
- To get your NZBHydra2 API, go to Config.
BesideBesides the Save button, there's an API? button. Click that to show the API details. You may add that to apps such as Sonarr,RadarrRadarr, and CouchPotato.
Connecting Usenet Downloaders (Optional)
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If you wish to add your Usenet downloaders to download directly from NZBHydra2, go to Downloading, scroll down, and click Add new Downloader.
- Select between NZBGet and SABnzbd and enter the following information
NZBGet Non-SSL
Name: NZBGet
URL: http://{servername}.usbx.me:{nzbget port}/
Username: {nzbget username}
Password: {nzbget password}
NZBGet SSL
Name: NZBGet
URL: https://{username}.{servername}.usbx.me/nzbget/nzbget
Username: {nzbget username}
Password: {nzbget password}
SABnzbd
Name: SABnzbd
URL: https://{username}.{servername}.usbx.me/sabnzbd
API Key: {sabnzbd api key}
Setting Up SSL
If you wish to access your NZBHydra2 instance, go toConfig -> MainEnter/nzbhydra2to the URL base. Once that's done, clickSaveand restart when prompted.Once restarted, your instance will ONLY be accessible to the following link
https://{username}.{servername}.usbx.me/nzbhydra2
Once you've done this, you will not access NZBHydra2 via the HTTP link. You may have to change the NZBHydra2 API URL to the new HTTPS link if you set your API already.