I am looking for a plug-in for media requests from users.
My users suck, and won’t tell me if I’m missing stuff they want, or my copies are bad (with a few very helpful exceptions) so I’m looking for some sort of integration that like tells me what they are looking for, or makes it easy for them to ping me a suggestion to add/fix. I don’t watch most of my library, so this is a big concern.
Most of my users don’t know my number or email because they are my partner’s friends and I don’t use the email address my server is tied to, for security (nor are messages usually passed to me on the rare occasion they are sent to him). So “have them text you” isn’t really a good option, and it’s enough of a struggle to get them to use it in the first place that adding another standalone app isn’t going to do it either.
Preferably I would like something my end users don’t have to do anything to access, maybe a few button presses in their search interface? Like “search returns no results, request this content” as a button maybe?
Does anything like that exist?
How are you currently searching & downloading content?
Currently I am not, because I am intentionally overhauling my way of doing things entirely. Pia sold out from what I hear so I’m doing a ton of looking into better options for vpn, sites, trackers, etc. and looking to automate some of it since I’ll have time and energy to learn how to do that.
Prior: manually. Sources: varied and questionable.
One of the benefits of downloading from usenet is that no VPN is required: all of your content to/from your usenet provider can be encrypted and you’re never uploading content, like a torrent.
Look online and find yourself:
a usenet NZB indexer (pay for this service. Not free)
a usenet provider. Get a monthly subscription. They’re reasonably-priced. Tons of reviews out there, just search.
After you have both of those, you install sonarr (for TV shows), radarr (for movies), and sabnzbd+ (for doing the download). You connect your indexer account to sonarr/radarr and your usenet account to sabnzbd. Then, for example, you search for a movie on your radarr installation: radarr sends a query to your NZB indexer, which finds a result and returns it to radarr; that result is then forwarded to sabnzbd from radarr; sabnzbd connects to your usenet account and downloads the requested content. Presto!
So rather than paying for a vpn (I run my own for pihole anyway, so the one I have is single use) I just… buy access to the old school (literally) internet which then gives me access to the content, through I assume archaic voodoo p2p communities or something similar? 😁🤷🏻♀️
This feels semi-dark-web? Am I going to get in trouble just paying for this access?
Nope! You pay for usenet aggregators who are archiving literally everything posted.
I recommend a private, paid indexer simply because there tends to better results from them.
Nothing dark web about it. Just old school.