I was looking through the megathread and saw this real-debrid thing. I have heard this name some times so I read what it does but wasn’t able to understand it. If someone could explain it to me I would appreciate it.
Also, it caught my attention that “it’s a good way to prevent your IP from ever hitting the torrent’s swarm, which is the main cause of receiving copyright infringement letters”. Does this mean it’s an alternative to a VPN when torrenting? Is it like a seedboxes or something? Are there any free alternatives?
From what I’ve heard, it scrapes and downloads from public trackers without ever seeding, basically acting as a plague on public trackers.
Afaik Debrid-Link is very similar, but also seeds like a regular seed box.
Just want to plug plex_Debrid in here. Guy who made it is awesome and having Debrid functionality in plex is so nice.
The GitHub explains it great but in summary you mount your Real Debrid (or other Debrid service) account to your machine via rclone, so anything you’ve downloaded on Debrid is available on plex.
Then there’s a script that watches the plex watchlist for new requests and then scrapes torrents to get it. (similar to stremio): If it’s cached (already available on real Debrid) then you can watch it instantly. Which is majority popular content. More niche stuff it may have to request Debrid to download and try again later
Then refreshes plex to scan the library for the download.
Even works outside of plex with things like overseerr, jellyseerr, trakt to monitor requests. Also can use Trakt to manage your library. Even Support for other scrapers like jackett and torrentio and you can set it to refresh your jellyfin library if you aren’t using plex.
As a nob, the setup steps look do able, but I think I need to get jellyseerr first and then this.
I may need to run my server on a PC to get VPN connection… Hmm… Thanks👍
It’s torrenting 2.0.
Besides the download torrent capabilities. It can download from some hosters (like 1ficher, and mega) as it was premium. So you pay for the real-debrid subscription which is low and has premium in a lot of those hosters. It is awesome and I strongly recommend.
I use this https://real-debrid.com/ register for an account and pay the subscription. Then you can generate an API Key that you can use in Torrentio. Through the web interface you can paste links manually to download.
It basically downloads torrents to their servers so you don’t directly download torrents. As another person said you can also use it with the torrentio addon for stremio. It fucking rocks
So happy I read this thread. Had it setup in no time and will be cancelling all of my streaming services. $30/year for this is pretty incredible.
