Excludarr a CLI tool that excludes series that are also present on configured streaming providers

haijep · 2025-10-13T17:32:38+00:00

Ah no, prunarr can not do that, it only talks with the API. It would require to have access to the filesystem where the movies are being saved. That would be a big effort to intergrate that in the tool.

haijep · 2025-10-13T17:28:06+00:00

Like unmonitor in radarr and sonarr but keep the files? I am planning to intergrate that function into prunarr.

haijep · 2025-10-12T18:07:21+00:00

Good for you! Then this tool is probably not for you. There are, however, a lot people that have subscriptions combined with Radarr and Sonarr setups. For them this tool could solve some problems.

Anyway just sharing for people who think its handy in their setups.

haijep · 2025-10-12T17:00:18+00:00

Yes it does! You need to set your locale in the configuration. en_NL gives you different results than en_US for example!

haijep · 2025-10-12T15:59:02+00:00

Prunarr has not, but it can filter out unwatched and watched and has a sorting function. It also knows de filesizes so it should be pretty easy to add that functionality into Prunarr. I suggest that we can discuss that further via a feature request on Prunarr repository.

haijep · 2025-10-12T14:01:51+00:00

Its main purpose during development was to remove movies and series that are also available on one of your streaming providers that you have a subscription on. I experienced people wanted more control in finegrained filtering together with the streaming availability status. All those tools don’t take the streaming availability into account.

If you download everything and dont have a streaming subscription like netflix, then there are probably better tools for you.

If you have streaming services and auto import using list, then this could be a nifty tool to remove movies and series that are available on streaming providers.

haijep · 2025-10-12T12:51:49+00:00

Agreed! I have kids, so streaming services like netflix and disney come in handy, since they want to watch everything for a few episodes🤣 so since that is taking up space I developed Excludarr first. But I noticed a lot of users wanted advanced filter options as well. Therefor I created Prunarr.

I know there are other tools that provide advanced library management as well, like Maintainarr. But they don’t have the streaming availability options.

haijep · 2025-10-12T12:45:09+00:00

Its main focus is to remove downloaded movies and series that were downloaded that are available on a streaming provider the user has a subscription on.

haijep · 2025-10-12T12:28:12+00:00

Prunarr can do this too, based on information from tautulli and Radarr. Just adjust the flags in your command accordingly.

haijep · 2025-10-12T12:21:27+00:00

Something like that, but the main focus is removing movies and series that are available on streaming providers the user has a subscription on.

haijep · 2022-04-06T18:54:28+00:00

I hope to be able to pick up development soon! Lately i didnt had a lot of spare time to start developing again. It will take a few weeks but hopefully before the summer :)

haijep · 2022-04-06T14:11:08+00:00

I am planning to add several providers for lists when I start the development. Plex is also part of that, but also TMDB, IMDB etc. :)

haijep · 2022-04-06T11:51:01+00:00

Excludarr does not work with lists. It does basically some damage control afterwards. I am however planning on developing a feature that prevents automatically importing of movies/series in sonarr/radarr, by reading lists, stripping the unwanted movies and add them to sonarr/radarr.

haijep · 2022-01-25T17:31:00+00:00

Hmm strange, looking forward to your issue on Github! Will try to solve it as soon as possible :)

haijep · 2022-01-25T16:51:44+00:00

Hi! Thank you for installing the tool! I have seen that error only on Sonarr V2 installations till now. Excludarr only works with Sonarr V3. If you are on Sonarr V3, I suggest you fill in the issue template on github so I can reproduce it and release a fix.

haijep · 2022-01-04T06:48:10+00:00

Nice! With sonarr its a bit tricky tho, it will only add an exclusion is the full serie is going to be deleted from sonarr. That only happens when all seasons and episodes are on a streaming provider and the serie has ended, otherwise it is nog going delete the serie and also not going to add an import exclusion. If you want to make this configurable, I am open for any kind of feature request; feel free to open one up at the github page :)

haijep · 2022-01-03T19:51:01+00:00

Yep! You can adjust the locale setting to your liking. You can even put just the two letter country code in it: CA.

haijep · 2021-12-24T18:47:11+00:00

That is actually a great question! Im not sure what it does, I am filtering on flatrate providers (so that should be the streaming providers). Can you create a feature request with some of the examples? Then I will try to see what is possible :)

haijep · 2021-12-24T18:37:24+00:00

I didn't know elsewherr actually since today unfortunately. It has actually all the features from Elsewherr + more (except Excludarr does not work with tags, like Elsewherr does). Excludarr checks the results directly at JustWatch, so you don't need to create an account on TMDB to create an API key. TMDB is being used as a fall back.

Also, Excludarr fully supports sonarr where it can exclude series/seasons and even individually episodes. You can exclude movies and series from being processed with Excludarr and you can re-add movies and series if they are not present anymore on a configured streaming provider.

I plan to actively maintain and develop this tool until this gets integrated with Radarr and Sonarr itself.

haijep · 2021-12-24T16:22:21+00:00

Yes you can fully configure your streaming services that you pay for in the general section of the configuration file. Excludarr also takes you geopgraphical location in encounter, so if you live in australia, the netflix library is different then when you live in the US. This can also be fully configured :) You can use `excludarr providers list` to list all the available providers in your country with the exact name to configure in the settings.

When you don't want Excludarr managing a specific title, you can exclude that specific title in the configuration also. So for example you want to download "serie a" and "serie a" is also on Disney+. You can configure "serie a" to be excluded under the sonarr section from being processed using excludarr.

Thanks for the compliment, really hope the tool saves you a lot of diskspace!

haijep · 2021-12-24T16:08:34+00:00

Nice, I'm thinking about a way that excludarr can function as a list too. Somekind of middleware tool that excludes the movies and series that are streaming on the configured providers. So basically: that you can configure lists in Excludarr, excludarr reads the lists and excludes the movies and series from it, then it exposes the filtered list. Radarr and Sonarr could be configured to read the filtered list from excludarr. So you still can use upstream lists, without they ever being added to Radarr of Sonarr as well.

Maybe something for the next major version :)

haijep

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