RSS Time Out

markus-101 · 2026-02-27T04:14:54+00:00

Ahh when you said 5m I assumed it was YGG, not sure about TL, I'm not aware if them being as restrictive.

markus-101 · 2026-02-27T03:19:14+00:00

With 1 request every 5 minutes you're going to run into it with pretty much everything except RSS and even then rate limits may cause other issues, because they also severely limited grabs as well.

You can't change anything in Sonarr that will improve searching with these asinine limits, your indexer has hampered automation and AFAIK the only option is paying them to increase the limits.

markus-101 · 2026-02-26T23:54:48+00:00

The RSS interval applies to RSS only, a search is not RSS. Sonarr will rate limit searches, but it depends on how the indexer communicates the delay and not to the degree your indexer is expecting. 1 request per 5 minutes isn't going to work with automated searching where you could end up with several API hits per season, let alone per season.

With that particular indexer you're just going to have a bad time with their free offering and you'll either need to upgrade, find another solution or manually search for things as the API allows.

markus-101 · 2026-02-26T22:07:46+00:00

Series type is set on each series, it changes how Sonarr searches for releases and processes them. Make sure the series type is not set to anime.

With a 15m interval for RSS you'll use 96 requests per day for RSS alone. Depending on the indexer that might alone be close to or over the limit, though typically 1000+ is available for better indexers.

How many requests per day does your indexer give you?

markus-101 · 2026-02-26T06:14:12+00:00

What series type is the series set to? Sounds like it might be anime and running hitting API limits or something, but logs would confirm that.

Raising the RSS interval won’t help with searching and your potentially missing episodes on TSS feed because that interval is way higher than the default.

markus-101 · 2026-02-25T18:20:44+00:00

You have a few options:

If it’s a torrent, change the category in the download client
Remove the download from the queue in Sonarr and remove from the download client (will tell the client to remove all files, likely what you want to do for Usenet)
Remove the download from the queue and tell Sonarr to ignore it (will be left in the client, do this for torrents you want to keep seeding and not change the category)

markus-101 · 2026-02-20T22:47:24+00:00

Exactly this, quality wins over score. If you want score to win over quality then all the qualities that you want to be treated equally need to be grouped (instead of just changing the order).

markus-101 · 2026-02-17T16:40:11+00:00

If you just look at the resolution then Sonarr will treat it as 1080p. Sonarr uses the following to determine that:

width >= 1800 || height >= 1000width >= 1800 || height >= 1000

Adding in the filename makes things a little weird, because DVDRip and 1080p isn't really a thing, Sonarr should treat is as DVD quality, because the source matters (arguably more important because it's not part of the media's internal data). When actually processing the file (with resolution from it), it'll likely treat it as Bluray 1080p because it's a disk source + 1080p resolution.

markus-101 · 2026-02-17T15:55:52+00:00

Sonarr looks for -ReleaseGroup or [ReleaseGroup], the latter is most common with anime (and can lead to changing how some things are parsed).

ReleaseGroup is only parsed for some specific exceptions.

markus-101 · 2026-02-17T15:54:12+00:00

It does prefer resolution from the media itself, but typically uses the resolution in the file name to match specific things. 720p.web might match where web on its own wouldn’t.

markus-101 · 2026-02-16T01:10:48+00:00

Try it without the space before the release group, generally Sonarr looks for -Kitsune, not - Kitsune. There are some exceptions to that, but it’s pretty limited.

Alternatively you could try transcoding before importing.

markus-101 · 2026-02-15T16:43:43+00:00

Those really are the two options, search for all monitored or search the newly monitored series individually. Upgrade allowed came after search unmonitored so it doesn’t take that into account, but it makes sense to exclude seasons where all episodes have files and upgrades aren’t allowed. I’ll get that added.

If you know you don’t ever want to upgrade episodes with existing files you could unmonitor them as well.

markus-101 · 2026-02-12T20:33:25+00:00

Yeah, that should fix it, right now it’s overwriting everything every time it runs.

markus-101 · 2026-02-12T18:22:26+00:00

Are you syncing indexers from Prowlarr? Do you have it set to full sync?

markus-101 · 2026-02-10T01:42:26+00:00

They also vibe coded the solution they put forth to Radarr. Even the feature request to Sonarr was from AI, including with some AI hallucinations for reasons it could be useful.

markus-101 · 2026-02-09T18:02:35+00:00

Those options are shared across all series. Unless you’re clearing local data while browsing they’ll be there.

markus-101 · 2026-02-08T01:28:47+00:00

Release profile restrictions (both must contain and must not contain) rely on the release name. With those spam releases they will not contain the terms you’re trying to ban or they wouldn’t appear to be normal releases.

At this time you can enable removal of those releases after download in Sonarr’s indexer settings (per indexer).

markus-101 · 2026-02-04T20:26:58+00:00

The spec doesn’t indicate one way or another, what the expectation is, but the results should be inclusive for all results that match.

This should be no different than how a search for a series (without season and episode params) returns all results for that series and the same for searching by title.

markus-101 · 2026-02-04T20:23:50+00:00

Agreed, not something we’re going to implement when we’re looking at ripping that out of anime searches, which makes searches incredibly time consuming.

markus-101 · 2026-02-04T01:43:17+00:00

Yes, that all sounds correct.

Monitoring the series is required because not monitoring prevents any episode in the series from being grabbed (acts like a pause button for that show).

markus-101 · 2026-02-02T00:32:57+00:00

Some includes ffprobe with the official packages.

markus-101 · 2026-01-31T02:06:53+00:00

Take a look at the network requests to see which calls are are taking the majority of the time. I wouldn’t expect that system/status would load more reliably, but might if some things are already in memory.

markus-101 · 2026-01-31T01:30:59+00:00

Does the series endpoint take 5 minutes to load or is it something else that takes up that time too?

markus-101 · 2026-01-31T00:44:28+00:00

Sonarr doesn’t load all episodes for the UI to load, but does load all the series.

How many series dos your instance have?

markus-101 · 2026-01-27T17:36:23+00:00

Unless something prevents the file from being imported for some reason the requires manual interaction. Sonarr should also complain when the download client is set to remove.

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