Automate exact release search with Prowlarr

If you are determined to find very particular releases, this script based on Prowlarr API will help you.

It checks your list against every indexer Prowlarr already watches and tells you right away which releases actually exist, so you do not have to guess before downloading.

1. Start by listing all the releases name one per line in a file named release-list.txt
2. Create the script below with nano searchlist-prowlarr.sh && chmod +x searchlist-prowlarr.sh
3. Don't forget to replace your Prowlarr instance URL, Port and API key

#!/bin/bash
# ==============================================================================
# Title       : Search Prowlarr from a file
# Description : /
# ==============================================================================

BASEURL="http://YOURIP:YOURPORT"
APIKEY="YOURAPIKEY"

EXECUTION_PATH=$PWD
FILEPATH="$PWD/release-list.txt"
FILENAME=""
CHECKMARK="\u2714"
CROSS="\u274c"

fields=""
awk '{ sub("\r$", ""); print }' "${FILEPATH}" > "${FILEPATH}2" && mv "${FILEPATH}2" "${FILEPATH}" #FORCE TO UNIX EOL

while IFS= read -r line; do
    FILENAME="${line}"
    echo -n "Searching $FILENAME"
    result=$(curl -s "${BASEURL}/api/v1/search?apikey=$APIKEY&query=$FILENAME")
    count=$(echo "$result" | jq "[.[] | select(has(\"downloadUrl\") and .title == \"$FILENAME\") | .indexer] | length")
    if [[ "$count" -gt "0" ]]; then
        echo -e "\\r${CHECKMARK} Searching $FILENAME"
        results=$(echo "$result" | jq ".[] | select(has(\"downloadUrl\") and .title ==  \"$FILENAME\") | .indexer,.downloadUrl")
        echo -e "$results"
    else
        echo -e "\\r${CROSS} Searching $FILENAME"
    fi
    sleep 30
done < "${FILEPATH}"

Running it on a few hundred releases overnight is much faster than searching for each one by hand, and the checkmark or cross next to every line makes the result easy to scan.