Jackett

Jackett bridges the gap between media automation applications and the fragmented landscape of torrent trackers by providing a unified proxy layer that standardizes indexer access. As media automation tools like Sonarr and Radarr have become essential for managing digital libraries, the challenge of integrating with dozens of different torrent trackers—each with unique search interfaces and authentication methods—creates significant complexity. Jackett solves this by centralizing indexer logic, allowing automation tools to interact with hundreds of trackers through a single, consistent Torznab API while Jackett handles the tracker-specific implementation details.

Common Use Cases

Media automation enthusiasts use Jackett as the centerpiece of their automated content acquisition pipeline, configuring dozens of torrent trackers once in Jackett and then providing Sonarr and Radarr with Torznab feed URLs that enable automated searching across all configured indexers whenever new episodes or movies are released. Home server operators deploy Jackett to access specialized or regional torrent trackers that lack direct integration with popular automation tools, using Jackett's maintained indexer definitions to bridge compatibility gaps without writing custom scrapers. Private tracker users leverage Jackett to manage authentication across multiple private torrent sites, with Jackett handling cookie persistence and login requirements while providing applications with API access that doesn't expose tracker credentials. Power users utilize the blackhole feature to integrate Jackett with legacy torrent clients that lack API support, with Jackett downloading .torrent files to a monitored directory where clients automatically load and start downloads.

Key Features

• Proxy server translating queries between automation apps and torrent trackers
• Support for hundreds of torrent indexers through maintained definitions
• Torznab and Potato feed URLs for integration with Sonarr, Radarr, and compatible apps
• Web interface for indexer configuration, testing, and API key management
• Automatic handling of tracker authentication, cookies, and rate limiting
• Manual search interface for testing tracker queries and result parsing
• Blackhole directory feature for downloading .torrent files to monitored folders
• Indexer synchronization with FlareSolverr for Cloudflare-protected sites
• Custom indexer definitions for adding unsupported trackers
• Category mapping for translating between tracker and automation tool categories
• API key generation for secure application integration
• Detailed logging for troubleshooting indexer issues and query failures

Why deploy Jackett on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Jackett on Hostinger VPS provides a dedicated, always-available proxy for media automation tools without dependency on local network uptime or dynamic IP addresses that may be blocked by trackers. The VPS environment ensures consistent access to torrent indexers for applications like Sonarr and Radarr running on the same or separate infrastructure, with reliable network connectivity that doesn't suffer from residential ISP throttling or connection interruptions. Self-hosting on VPS infrastructure allows configuring dozens of trackers with persistent authentication, maintaining API keys and session cookies that remain valid across application restarts and updates. With dedicated resources, Jackett handles concurrent queries from multiple automation tools without performance degradation, while the persistent storage preserves indexer configurations, custom definitions, and download history for long-term automation reliability.