prowlarr

What This Skill Does

The Prowlarr skill for OpenClaw provides a powerful command-line bridge to your Prowlarr instance, enabling seamless management of indexers and automated content discovery. By integrating directly with Prowlarr's API, this skill allows the AI to search across all your configured indexers simultaneously, manage the health and status of those connections, and force synchronization of your indexer settings with downstream applications like Sonarr or Radarr. Whether you are looking for specific media files, performing health checks, or enabling/disabling indexers on the fly, this tool streamlines the administrative overhead of managing high-volume media collections.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the OpenClaw command-line interface: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/jmagar/prowlarr

After installation, you must configure your credentials by creating a JSON configuration file at ~/.clawdbot/credentials/prowlarr/config.json. Ensure this file contains the url to your Prowlarr instance and your apiKey, which can be located under Prowlarr’s Settings → General → Security tab. Once the configuration is saved, the skill will automatically detect your setup and begin accepting commands.

Use Cases

• Automated Searching: Instantly search across all linked indexers for specific keywords, categories, or media IDs (IMDb/TVDB).
• Health Monitoring: Quickly identify which indexers are timing out or failing by using the test-all or stats commands.
• Administrative Management: Enable or disable problematic indexers without needing to open the web UI.
• App Synchronization: Trigger immediate sync operations to propagate your indexer changes to connected media managers like Sonarr and Radarr.

Example Prompts

1. "Prowlarr, can you search for the latest Linux ISOs and list the torrent results?"
2. "Check the health of my indexers and tell me if any are failing to respond."
3. "Search for the movie Inception in 4K resolution and sync the results to my Radarr."

Tips & Limitations

• Category IDs: Use the provided category ID table (e.g., 2000 for Movies, 5000 for TV) to significantly narrow down search results and reduce noise.
• Verbose Mode: When troubleshooting connectivity issues, always use the --verbose flag with the indexers command to see detailed error responses from specific indexer endpoints.
• Security: Ensure your config.json file has restricted read permissions on your system, as it contains your private API key.
• Scope: This skill is strictly for searching and management via Prowlarr API; it does not download files directly, it only identifies releases and manages indexer infrastructure.