Cross-seed with autobrr

Using qBittorrent?

If you run qBittorrent, check out qui, our multi-instance qBittorrent WebUI with first party cross-seed support. It integrates directly with autobrr and needs no extra daemon or config; see Cross-seed with qui.

Heads up

This is meant for advanced users. If you're not familiar with cross-seed already, we suggest you read their documentation before you continue.

Don't expect any support for setting this up. If you need help setting up cross-seed, you need to reach out to them directly.

With this setup you can use autobrr with cross-seed to automatically cross-seed newly announced torrents from indexer Y that matches existing torrents in your torrent client from indexer X.

Install cross-seed

See cross-seed's documentation on how to get started.

Create the cross-seed filter in autobrr

The way this works is you create a filter with a higher priority set than any other filter to make sure every cross-seed match is forwarded to the cross-seed daemon instead of being run through other filters.

1. Get your API key with the following command:

   cross-seed api-key

   Keep this key at hand since we will need it at step 5 later on. In the rest of this tutorial, we will refer to this as YOUR_API_KEY.

2. Create a filter and name it eg. cross-seed.

3. Select all the indexers you want to use, preferably all of them.

4. Set a really high priority to make sure it's always higher than your other filters.

5. Go to the External tab, and add a new External filter.

   • Type: Webhook
   • Host: http://localhost:2468/api/announce
   • Headers: x-api-key=YOUR_API_KEY
   • HTTP Method: POST
   • Expected http status: 200
   • Data (JSON):

   {
     "name": {{ toRawJson .TorrentName }},
     "guid": "{{ .TorrentUrl }}",
     "link": "{{ .TorrentUrl }}",
     "tracker": {{ toRawJson .IndexerName }}
   }

6. Go to the Actions tab and create a Test action. This is required for the webhook to work.

7. Finally, make sure the filter is enabled and you're all set.

Cross-seed notifications

You can set up a Notifiarr or Apprise webhook for cross-seed notifications within the cross-seed config.