hi guys welcome back to another ibra corp video thanks for tuning in with me today i'm so glad
to have you here it's been a busy week we've had several different ideas thrown out there for this
week's video and it was originally going to be notifier but unfortunately due to time constraints
i've shifted gears a little bit one of our more requested videos of late has been prowla
now i put it off to the side for a little bit here because i was obviously trying to invest time into
a bunch of other things that we helped cover including our argo tunnel video for example but
i think today's the day that we're finally going to give this one a run it's by the same developer
as notifier so at the same time i get to give a little bit of thanks to the same developer here
i'm going to preface this with the fact that this is in beta so please understand that by the
time this video gets out there maybe a few weeks down the track maybe a few months down the track
the application would have surely had a lot of updates before it becomes a public release
in its full fleshed out version but even in its beta stage this is a very very
amazing looking product so you might be asking yourself what is it so i'm here on the github
page for prowler and i'll just scroll up a little bit so you can have a look so we're on the prowler
forward slash prowler github page we've got all of our contributors here so big props
to the developer nitsuwa who's been an amazing contributor with us on the discord channel if
you haven't joined our discord check out the link down below there's plenty of activity happening
in there lately and we'd love to have you there so let's have a look at the description here so
prolar is a indexer manager slash proxy built on the popular a r or r dot net slash react js base
stack all right that's a whole bunch of gibberish if you're not someone that's in the scene you may
not understand what that means but in summary the interface that you use for sonar and radar
is what this uses here so they've basically matched the same sort of setup and it looks
really really familiar to you and it integrates seamlessly with sonar and radar as well as well
as the other pvr apps so lidar for example it supports both torrent trackers and usenet indexes
so what does that mean for you well right now you may be set up like i am and you might have jacket
for your torrent indexes and then in sony radar you've set up individual indexes that read from
jacket and then you might also have something like nzb hydra for your used net indexes which then you
integrate with your sonar and radar what this is offering is a single solution for all of that
and more so have a look at the major features here for example using that support for any new
snap compatible indexer torrent support for 400 plus trackers and more coming soon it synchronizes
to your sonar radar reader and lidar so no manual config of the other applications are required you
get an indexer history and stats which look really nice manual searching of the trackers and indexes
at a category level support for pushing releases directly to your download clients from parallel
so i did test it out so you can for example set everything up in parallel search in there
send it to your download app away you go you don't even have to look at sony radar if you don't want
to and indexer health and status notifications now that's a lot of offering in one application
all right as it says here we do it all so let me tell you guys i'm really excited to show you
this application please think about supporting the developer become a backer help support them
become a sponsor a mega sponsor and all the other things that might be involved as well
help tools like this come to the surface because the amount of people that contribute to an
application like this they deserve recognition so by all means please jump in have a look at least
give it a try see if it's for you and if it is help the developer out buy him a coffee buy him a
beer buy the team of br they're all working really hard on stuff like this so i'm more than happy to
try and get this sort of stuff out there and like i said we've been working together in the discord
so it's been a really nice collaborative effort in the community which is just awesome to see
so if that sounds like something interested in let's get stuck into it
alright guys so in the event that you wanted to read the documentation i will link it in
the description of course as i always do but i'll show it here really quickly so wikijs.server.com
forward slash en forward slash prowler and that'll give you the official documentation which is being
constantly updated by the developing team and that way you can fully understand what's happening and
what everything does things i may or may not cover in the video i always like to direct
people to the official documentation now i've had to read through it and i've tested it myself so i
have an understanding of how it all works already so if i'm too quick for you slow me down pause
the video take your time that's the beauty of having youtube videos and then you've got the
written instructions here as well in terms of the instructions i'm going to show today in our video
i'm going to write my own instructions here that you can follow along with the video so it's more
of like a transcript of what we're doing in the video and that's going to be available at
github.com forward slash ibra corp forward slash prowler okay separate to the official docs which
are very obviously generic for everybody this is going to be going along with my own video
so this will be complete by the time we get this out there all right guys so we're in unraid now
and one of the things i'm going to really enjoy about this video is that i haven't been able to
delve into it too much which means look i have a good understanding but there's things i'm going to
learn along the way and like i said it's still in beta so there's going to be a lot of things that
are going to keep developing so i really want to get this out there so people can at least give it
a go and provide their feedback for the developers and allow them to expand it even more with
something that's incorporating so much feedback is really really important so i'm going to hope that
if i did this out there you guys can provide that feedback so make sure you send that back to them
join their discord join our discord so as usual the first thing we're going to do
is head over to our app store now if you're wondering why my unread looks like this check out
our last video we covered that with docker folders i'll head over to the app store and again i'm on
my live server guys and the reason why i'm on the live server for this video is because it is on the
assumption that you already have your sonar radar jacket all that sort of stuff set up already we're
going to be looking from someone's perspective who wants to integrate this into their setup and
replace some of those tools obviously in the app store we're going to look at prowler and at the
moment as it stands on the app store we have two options so we have the linux servers repository
team there and we have hot ios repository as well i'm gonna go with hot io's repository today so
we're gonna go ahead and click to install we'll click default so hot io he gets all these sort of
images and gets them prepared on his own so again if you feel like supporting him please do that as
well under network type we're going to switch that to our custom docker networks because we want to
be able to use their container names and not worry about ip addresses now i am asked that often about
how to create a docker network that i might just start doing a little bit more often just to help
you guys learn how to do that so really quickly we click the terminal here up in the top right
docker network create followed by the name of the network that you want to give it we can
call it unraidnet for example i'm not going to do that i already have plenty here on my server
so i don't really need any more so once you do that and you hit enter you'll get a whole big
long number that basically is the identifier you can then close the window you don't have
to do anything in there and then refresh your page so if you just hit f5 you will then see
your docker network come up in the list so we've got on the custom network as you can see there's
not much else we need to set up we're happy with this app data location which is our default and
our port which is 9696 so for me that's that's free and i have plenty of containers so it should
be free for you but if it's not please remember to change it to something that is if you're not
sure whether it's free the beauty of unread here is if we click docker allocations is the giant
list of containers that i've got and what ports they're using now the easiest way to manage this
is just type control f on your keyboard and type the port so 9696 and if i scroll through the page
you can see it doesn't highlight anything down here so that tells me that port's free
so we're happy with that pretty easy container to get started so we'll go ahead and click apply
once that's finished click done and then head over to our docker tab and here it is so i haven't
set it into a docker folder just yet so i might even just do that actually or we'll just quickly
do that i'll go into media automation edit the folder come down i can see prowler there we'll
highlight that and click submit and now we've got it in our folder so let's left-click that
and go to the web ui now we're in the web ui now you will understand why i said it looks familiar
because it looks exactly like radar and sonar it's not an overbearing interface
it looks nice and clean you already sort of know your way around if you're using radar and sonar
so that's a huge benefit there already now you notice there's not that much there in the left
sidebar the reason is because there's not much you need to do it is a one-stop shop and it manages a
lot so i'll show you how it works the first option you see is indexes as the name suggests this is
where you add your indexes so previously you had to add your torrent indexes into for example
jacket and for your nzb indexes you would use something like nzb hydra this interface will allow
you to add both now i'll show you how easy that is we'll go add new indexer and just note here
proudly supports any indexer that uses the news nab standard as well as other indexes listed below
i will add a disclaimer here at this point that what i am showing you is the ability for you to
download linux isos and other free and open source things from either torrent or newsnab applications
it is not for the purpose of pirating if you choose to do that that is at your own risk
and is not what the purpose of this video is i'm only here to show you the application and what the
application can do so with that let's have a look through this list so we've got torrent here which
is under the protocol type scroll down we've also got nzb again it's using the same formatting same
colors you know everything that radar and sonar have so again it's very familiar to understand
how to read it if i just scroll up to the top here we're going to add a torrent indexer we're going
to go with 1337x obviously we want to enable so we're going to leave it as enabled the app
profile we haven't set up any sort of profiles yet so we're happy to just leave it as standard but
they are used to control the rss automatic search and interactive search settings on application
sync the download link if you want it to be via magnet or itorrence.org how you want the results
to be sorted so you can sort it by seeder's size or created we're going to go by created actually
i might switch that to cedars order requested from the site so you have ascending and descending so
we've picked cedars do you want the seeders to go from top to bottom or bottom to top and index a
priority so similar to sonar and radar you can set the priority one being the highest and 50
being the lowest default is 25 which is smack bang in the middle we're gonna leave it as 25 that's
fine we don't need to change that and you can go ahead and click test and we get a green tick
go ahead and click save congratulations you just added an indexer now how easy was that all right
now i could think of probably 10 15 examples of times i've had to set up an index in something
like jacket and it's just done my absolute heading trying to get it to work we've just got it done
in about two clicks i reckon for those using nzb we're just going ahead and click add index
and we're going to add an nzb one so we'll click drunken slug here just to show you what sort of
stuff comes up in drunken slug so in drunken slab we've got the redirect redirect incoming
download requests for indexer instead of proxying using power now to be honest with you i'm not 100
sure on what the redirect means to me by looking at the official documentation it says check the
box if a redirect is necessary there are only a couple of indexes where this is required to avoid
being banned so i guess in your scenario just make sure that the index that you're putting in
whether it requires this redirect or not i'm gonna have to leave that up to you because i'm not
too sure on it and i can't really say one way or the other so you have to forgive me there my
knowledge isn't that great on that particular one there the app profile so again we're gonna
leave it as standard we have the url which is thankfully filled out for us we don't even have
to do anything there where you would add your api key additional parameters expiration date if you
have a vip membership so what i'll do guys is i'll add mine in here after this screen is showing to
you and that way we can just close it and move on so there we go two of those things covered in the
one application already if we go down to stats there on the left is where you're going to see
your stats now obviously there's no stats yet and the reason is we haven't hooked up to our apps
if i go to search you can actually search in here like let's say let's say you don't want
to use sony radar to do that for some reason you just wanted to search manually it gives you the
option in here to do that so in the bottom we've got our query our indexes and our categories so
now that we've performed the search let's go back to the indexes here and go to stats there
you go have a look at the stats here gives you a nice interface and a nice view of how this all
looks so you can see which indexer we're hitting how much requests we're making to the indexer
and you can measure how much those requests are taking up so that's the search function and
that's if you want to use it inside of parallel usually most people obviously you're going through
something like sony radar on top of that you might have overseer or ombi doing your requests
so that all filters down and goes through here and then back into those apps in history you can
see the results anything that's been searched all those sort of details you can then inspect
those details as well so if we go click on this magnifying glass for example we'll research it
if i hit the i it'll give us a little bit more information on what's happened there so now we
get into the settings let's go into settings and we'll go to apps here's where we configure sonar
and radar so the beauty of this is you do it in parallel and you don't have to touch anything else
so let's go to applications and we're going to add radar in radar we have the following settings so
we can set the name obviously we're just going to leave it as radar but maybe you've got three
different radars running for whatever reason you can name it there sync level i will add that
with the sync level after reviewing it it looks like that this setting basically says once you add
it or remove it that's the only time the changes are pushed across to the app so in our case radar
so if you want all changes to constantly be in sync then you would change it to full sync or
you could disable it completely so i'm going to go with full sync and leave it at that any tags
if you have any matching tags that you want to apply to indexes and the prowlar server so for
us this is the beauty of using our custom docker network okay that we set up earlier so instead of
using localhost or an ip address we can just type in the name of the container now for me the name
of the container is just prowler just like that okay depending what the name of your container
is might be different that's the name of mine for my radar server for example it's actually binhex
hyphen radar so that's what i'll call it and then it wants our api key so i'm going to put
the api key in here and then we can test it once you've got the api key in there just go
ahead and click test and there we go we've got our green tick go ahead and click save
done you've just integrated with radar done you don't have to do anything on the radar end
that's pretty much complete and the same goes for sonar so you could go ahead and set that up
i'm not going to do it in this video it's basically exactly the same thing
the next thing is download clients now at this point you've pretty much set it up right if you
were to remove all your indexes from radar and sonar for example and you had it set up in here
those requests will actually hit here and you don't have to do anything else if you wanted
to be able to search for something in parallel and then send it to a download client then you
would set up a download client here if you are not planning to download stuff directly from
prowla there's no need to set it up if it's set up in your sonar and radar those requests from
parallel are sent back to them and then sona and radar handle them with your download clients that
you've set up there so i'm going to leave that as optional that's up to you guys if you want
to set that up but let's go ahead and click plus just to show you what options you've got
pretty much the same thing as sonar and radar here you've got your usernet download clients
and you've got your torrent download clients okay each one has their own settings you would need to
configure that the way you like and to be quite honest if you've already got these coins set up
in sonar and radar just copy their settings across it's exactly the same you've then got connections
so if you go to click plus here this is connections for your notifications so one of our
next videos is going to be notifier which is where you would select it here so that you can manage
all the notifications from pro art for you but you've also got a bunch of other options here if
you like as well discord is built in as well which is nice got email you've got twitter all sorts of
stuff here that you can integrate which is really really cool you then have tags so there's no tags
that have been added then you go into general and you've got your usual sort of settings here
that um you'll see in sonar and radar so if you are using for example proxying you can
select your proxy here and set that all up your api key i'll just refresh this after this video
you've then got ui time formats color changes and language so head over to system and then you've
got a bunch of other stuff here that you can help to manage your system settings as well looks
pretty much exactly the same as sonar and radar so you don't have to worry too much about that
so guys that's pretty much prowl i hope you enjoyed that i think it's an amazing application
it's still in beta but you know what if it's if this is how good it is already it can only
really get better from here again please look up the developer check it out on github support
them any way you can this is the sort of stuff that we want to see more of in the community and
they've basically listened to the community by doing things like this so please support them
where you can hot io's in there too maybe support us too if you're interested you can sign up on
our website or just donate to us via paypal all in the description below most importantly we'd
love to have you in our discord so if you're interested please jump over into our discord we
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