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Enhance your media setup with automation tools, post-processing utilities, and notification services. These applications streamline your workflow by eliminating manual tasks and keeping your media library up-to-date automatically.

Applications

Key Features

Instant Updates

Trigger library scans the moment new media is added, not minutes later

Archive Handling

Automatically extract and clean up RAR, ZIP, and 7z archives

Smart Notifications

Get real-time alerts for downloads, imports, and system events

Quality Control

Enforce naming conventions and organize files automatically

Cloudflare Bypass

Access protected trackers and sites seamlessly

Cross-Seeding

Maximize ratios by automatically finding duplicate torrents

Common Workflows

📺 Automated Library Updates

Eliminate manual library scans and get instant updates:

  1. Download completes in qBittorrent/SABnzbd
  2. Sonarr/Radarr moves file to media folder
  3. Autoscan detects the new file via webhook
  4. Plex/Jellyfin library updates in seconds
Cloud Storage Users

Autoscan is essential for cloud storage setups. Traditional inotify monitoring doesn’t work with rclone mounts, but Autoscan’s webhook-based approach works perfectly.

📦 Automatic Archive Extraction

Handle compressed downloads without lifting a finger:

  1. Torrent downloads include RAR files
  2. Unpackerr monitors your *arr queue
  3. Extracts video files automatically after download
  4. Sonarr/Radarr imports the extracted content
  5. Archive files cleaned up automatically

🔔 Notification Pipeline

Stay informed about every step of your automation:

  1. Sonarr grabs new episode → Notifiarr sends Discord message
  2. Download completes → Another notification
  3. Import succeeds → Final confirmation
  4. Issues detected → Alert with details

Installation

Install any automation tool from App Dashboard → Package Management (/dashboard?mode=packages): browse this category or search, pick the tool, and click Install. Where a tool has install-dialog inputs (FileBot’s license and media path, Unmanic’s library path), you fill them in the dialog. See each tool’s page for its specific options, and App Management for the full flow.

Installation Order Matters

For best results, install your media management apps (Sonarr, Radarr) and download clients (qBittorrent, SABnzbd) before automation tools. The installers automatically detect and configure integrations.

The CLI runs the same install scripts and suits automation:

qb install autoscan -u username
qb install unpackerr -u username
qb install filebot -u username -mp /path/to/media -o 'sabnzbd' -o 'rtorrent'
qb install notifiarr -u username

Each tool also accepts qb reinstall, qb update, and qb remove with the same -u username form. Full flag reference: CLI Reference and each tool’s page.

Media Management

<code>`*arr`</code> applications that trigger automation

Download Clients

Integrate with automation workflows

Media Servers

Benefit from instant library updates

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