Jackett

What is Jackett?

Jackett is a versatile application that serves as a proxy server, simplifying the process of interfacing with various torrent trackers. It acts as an intermediary, translating queries from popular media management applications like Sonarr, Radarr, SickChill, CouchPotato, and DuckieTV into tracker-specific HTTP requests. Jackett then parses the HTML responses, extracting the relevant data, and relays the results back to the requesting software. This innovative approach centralizes the logic for scraping and translating the data from different torrent sites, relieving the burden from the other apps and ensuring a consistent, reliable interface

Highlights

• Unified API support for a wide range of torrent trackers, eliminating the need for individual integrations
• Seamless integration with popular media management applications, enabling features like recent upload tracking (RSS) and advanced searches
• Centralized repository of maintained indexer scraping and translation logic, streamlining the integration process for developers
• Adherence to the Torznab (with nZEDb category numbering) and TorrentPotato API standards, ensuring compatibility with a broad ecosystem of tools