Sonarr compatible file name scheme? about animdl HOT 1 OPEN

This is pretty much a duplicate of #143, until there's an option for customizing filenames, there's not much that you can do

Directly integrating animdl (or anything for that matter) with Sonarr is pretty hard. I recently made a custom Indexer/Downloader combo that takes its releases from animetosho and uses DDL instead of Torrent/NZB, so I speak from experience.

If you wanted to implement it yourself you can still do it though if you know how to write REST APIs. Just follow these general steps:

• Write an indexer in the NewzNab/TorzNab format (you can just get the items from an existing RSS/API if you want to)
• Write a Downloader that impersonates one of the available download clients on Sonarr (I went with NZBVortex). If you make a NewzNab indexer, you need to impersonate an NZB downloader, otherwise you need to impersonate a Torrent downloader
• Make your indexer respond with a Pseudo NZB or Pseudo Torrent that contains info about your release (in this case it'd be the season, episode and series name)
• Make your downloader extract that info from your Pseudo File and handle it by calling animdl with the corresponding info

That takes a lot of time (my project took about 8 hours for me to complete it) and I wouldn't really recommend it. It's better to just make a cronjob based on what you're trying to do or wait until #143 is implemented or implement it yourself in a fork of animdl

from animdl.