byedarr

Community driven media cleanup

What is it?

byedarr is an application which cleans up your media library over time, letting your users vote on which items to keep or to remove.

How does it work?

1. Connect to your media managers (sonarr/radarr)
2. Connect to your Discord server
3. The bot determines which items to remove, and posts messages to the selected channel:
4. After a set time the voting will conclude and the bot will either add the item to a whitelist, or flag it for deletion
5. After the grace period the item will be removed

Setup

1. Create a Discord bot and get the bot token: https://discord.com/developers/applications

2. Create a .env file with the following:

DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN=<your token>

3. Create a config.yml file

mediaManagers:
  - id: "radarr"
    enabled: true
    type: "radarr"
    apiUrl: "http://radarr:7878/radarr"
    apiKey: "xxx"
  - id: "sonarr"
    enabled: true
    type: "sonarr"
    apiUrl: "http://sonarr:8989/sonarr"
    apiKey: "xxx"
votingPeriod: "1 week"
gracePeriod: "1 week"
immunityPeriod: "3 months"
discord:
  channelId: "123456" # Enable Discord developer mode and right-click the channel then press "Copy Channel ID"

✋ The config is read on app start, so any changes will require a restart.

4. docker-compose.yml

services:
  byedarr:
    image: ghcr.io/benjick/byedarr:latest
    env_file:
      - .env
    environment:
      - DATABASE_URL=postgresql://postgres:postgres@db:5432/postgres
      - CONFIG_PATH=/config/config.yml
    volumes:
      - ./config.yml:/config/config.yml
    restart: unless-stopped

  db:
    image: postgres:16-alpine
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=postgres
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres
      - POSTGRES_DB=postgres
    volumes:
      - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
  postgres_data:

Full docs

Environment variables

Variable	Type	Comment	Default
DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN	string	https://discord.com/developers/applications
CONFIG_PATH	string	Path to the configuration file, e.g. /config/config.yml
DATABASE_URL	string (URL)	PostgreSQL database connection URL
DRY_RUN	boolean	If true, nothing is actually deleted from sonarr/radarr	false
DEBUG	boolean	If true, debug messages and config are printed to the console	false

config.yml

cron:
  # How often to check for media to remove (default: daily at 6 PM)
  findMedia: "0 18 * * *"
  # How often to check for ended votes and process results (default: hourly)
  processVotes: "0 * * * *"

# List of media managers to use
mediaManagers:
  - id: "unique_identifier" # Unique identifier for the media manager (don't change later)
    enabled: true # Should look for media in this manager
    apiUrl: "http://radarr:7878/radarr" # Base URL for the media manager's API (excluding '/api')
    apiKey: "xxx"
    type: "radarr" # Specifies the media manager software (radarr or sonarr)
    count: 1 # Number of media items to include in each voting round
    # Weights for each media attribute.
    # Higher = more impact on the score.
    # Higher score = more likely to be scheduled for removal.
    weights:
      age: 0.1 # Time since added to the media manager
      size: 0.3 # Disk space used
      rating: 1 # Media rating (imdb/tmdb)
    addImportExclusionOnDelete: false # If true, adds deleted items to import exclusion list

# Paths to ignore when processing media
ignoredPaths:
  - "/path/to/ignore"
  - "/another/path"

# Discord settings
discord:
  channelId: "discord_channel_id" # ID of the channel to send messages to

# Voting and grace period settings
votingPeriod: "1 week" # How long a vote lasts
gracePeriod: "2 weeks" # Wait time after vote ends before removing/whitelisting media
immunityPeriod: "3 months" # Time a new media item is immune from voting

# What to do if a vote ends in a draw (keep or delete, default delete)
onDraw: "delete" | "keep"

# If true, no media will actually be deleted from managers
dryRun: false