Selfhostio

A self-hosted Stremio addon for streaming torrents via a debrid service.

Contents

• Selfhostio
  • Contents
  • Overview
  • Using
    • Initial setup (optional)
    • Run the project
  • Importing external dumps
    • Import data into database
    • INSERT INTO ingested_torrents
  • To-do

Overview

Stremio is a media player. On it's own it will not allow you to watch anything. This addon at it's core does the following:

1. It will search the internet and collect information about movies and tv show torrents, then store it in a database.
2. It will then allow you to click on the movie or tv show you desire in Stremio and play it with no further effort.

Using

The project is shipped as an all-in-one solution. The initial configuration is designed for hosting only on your local network. If you want it to be accessible from outside of your local network, please see not yet available

Initial setup (optional)

After cloning the repository there are some steps you should take to maximise the number of movies/tv shows we can find.

We can search DebridMediaManager hash lists which are hosted on GitHub. This allows us to add hundreds of thousands of movies and tv shows, but it requires a Personal Access Token to be generated. The software only needs read access and only for public respositories. To generate one, please follow these steps:

1. Navigate to GitHub settings -> Developer Settings -> Personal access tokens -> Fine-grained tokens (click here for a direct link)
2. Press Generate new token
3. Fill out the form (example data below):

    Token name:
        Selfhostio
    Expiration:
        90 days
    Description:
        <blank>
    Respository access
        (checked) Public Repositories (read-only) 
   

4. Click Generate token
5. Take the new token and add it to the bottom of the env/producer.env file

   GithubSettings__PAT=<YOUR TOKEN HERE>
   

Run the project

Open a terminal in the directory and run the command:

docker compose up -d

It will take a while to find and add the torrents to the database. During initial testing, in one hour it's estimated that around 200,000 torrents were located and added to the queue to be processed. For best results, you should leave everything running for a few hours.

To add the addon to Stremio, open a web browser and navigate to: http://127.0.0.1:7000

Importing external dumps

A brief record of the steps required to import external data, in this case the rarbg dump which can be found on RD:

Import data into database

I created a file db.load as follows..

load database
     from sqlite:///tmp/rarbg_db.sqlite
     into postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost/selfhostio

with include drop, create tables, create indexes, reset sequences

  set work_mem to '16MB', maintenance_work_mem to '512 MB';

And ran pgloader db.load to create a new items table.

INSERT INTO ingested_torrents

Once the items table is available in the postgres database, put all the tv/movie items into the ingested_torrents table using:

INSERT INTO ingested_torrents (name, source, category, info_hash, size, seeders, leechers, imdb, processed, "createdAt", "updatedAt")
SELECT title, 'RARBG', cat, hash, size, NULL, NULL, imdb, false, current_timestamp, current_timestamp
FROM items where cat='tv' OR cat='movies';

To-do

• Add a section on external access
• Add a troubleshooting section