MediaWolf – A Missing Piece for the Arr Stack, Open for Contributors
Hey lemming self-hosters,
I came across MediaWolf recently and wanted to share it here. It’s an open-source project that’s tackling a big gap in the media automation space. If you use Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, Readarr, or any part of the Arr stack, you know how powerful they are for managing and downloading media. But despite how great they are individually, they don’t always work together as smoothly as they could.
That’s where MediaWolf comes in. It’s designed to tie everything together… acting as a discovery hub, recommendation engine, and management tool to help you find, organize, and automate your media library across multiple services. Instead of manually juggling requests between different apps, MediaWolf aims to make it all feel more seamless.
With MediaWolf, the idea is to bring everything under one roof… a central place to discover, recommend, and manage media without bouncing between multiple dashboards. Think of it as a missing bridge between the different pieces of your media automation setup.
The Project Needs Contributors
The creator, TheWickedWolf, recently posted on Reddit looking for developers to help bring MediaWolf to life. The project is already in motion, but for it to really thrive, it needs more people involved. Since it’s built in a modular way, you don’t have to commit to the entire project, just focus on a specific part that interests you.
New features? There’s room for innovation.
Bug fixes and improvements? Always welcome.
UI/UX enhancements? Could use some polish.
Open-Source and Accepting PRs
If you’re into media automation, open-source development, or just want to help improve how the Arr stack works together, this is a great project to check out. The team is actively accepting pull requests, and the creator is open to adding new contributors.
Repo: GitHub – MediaWolf
If you’ve ever wanted a smarter, more integrated way to work with the Arr stack, this might be it.
[Edit: removed an incoherent description of the service]
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Right now, if you want to add a new movie or TV show, you probably:
Search for it manually across different Arr services
I mean, you only search one arr service depending on the media type.
Check which quality profiles or indexers work best for that media type
Figure out if it’s already available somewhere in your library
You’ve already setup your quality profiles and indexers for your Arrs when you initially configured them, so there’s no need to do that every time you add a new item. If it’s already in your library, it shows when you search for it so not much figuring out.
Manually add it to the right service
Again, you’ve already searched in the appropriate Arr service for the media type. The “manual” action is pressing “Add”, which i assume you’d need to do with this too?
I think I’m confused as to what problem this actually solves?
I mean, you only search one arr service depending on the media type.
I guess here I was more thinking about having audio books and ebooks with the same title across two separate instances of readarr.
If it’s already in your library, it shows when you search for it so not much figuring out
Yeah that is true, not so much a benefit but does help that all media types are manageable from the same dashboard
The “manual” action is pressing “Add”, which i assume you’d need to do with this too?
A reference to The benefit of having a recommendation engine auto add stuff for you. But I guess lots of the arr programs also have list imports but I’d prefer to not to depend on an external service for that sort of thing.
I think I’m confused as to what problem this actually solves?
I’m realizing now that in my excitement I have done a very poor job of describing the scope of this project, and would like to recommend that you visit the repo and check it out yourself:
https://github.com/MediaWolfOrg/MediaWolf
Here’s is a snippet from the project pages that does a much better job of describing it than I did (apologies again for my poor description)
Proposed Project Features: Books (Readarr & Anna’s Archive)
✅ Missing List → Read from Readarr, fetch missing books and auto-download via Anna’s Archive ✅ Manual Search → Search Anna’s Archive and download books (user selection and defined file structure) ✅ Recommendations → Generate book suggestions based on Readarr library (using a background tasks to scrape from Goodreads) - with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting Movies (Radarr & TMDB)
✅ Recommendations → Read Radarr library and suggest similar movies via TMDB (with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting) ✅ Manual Search → Search via TMDB with option to add to Radarr TV Shows (Sonarr & TMDB)
✅ Recommendations → Read Sonarr library and suggest similar shows via TMDB (with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting) ✅ Manual Search → Search via TMDB with option to add to Sonarr Music (Lidarr, LastFM, yt-dlp, Spotify)
✅ Manual Search → Search Spotify for music and download via spotDL (which uses yt-dlp) ✅ Recommendations → Generate artist recommendations from LastFM based on Lidarr library (with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting) ✅ Missing List → Read Lidarr library, fetch missing albums and download via yt-dlp Downloads (via yt-dlp)
✅ Direct Download Page → Input YouTube or Spotify link and download video/audio using spotDL or yt-dlp Subscriptions (via spotdl and yt-dlp) ✅ Schedule System → Subscribe to YouTube Channels, Spotify or YouTube Playlists and download on a schedule
I’d say this seems useful mostly for pulling non nbz/torrent sources from readarr and lidarr services
Yeah I agree, it seems like a super nice hole to fill as sourcing music, ebooks and audio books from Usenet or torrents without being in a private tracker club is trickier than it should be
How is this any different from Overseerr?
Or Jellyseer for us jellyfin users.
Here’s the rundown from the repo:
Proposed Project Features:
Books (Readarr & Anna’s Archive)
✅ Missing List → Read from Readarr, fetch missing books and auto-download via Anna’s Archive ✅ Manual Search → Search Anna’s Archive and download books (user selection and defined file structure) ✅ Recommendations → Generate book suggestions based on Readarr library (using a background tasks to scrape from Goodreads) - with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting
Movies (Radarr & TMDB)
✅ Recommendations → Read Radarr library and suggest similar movies via TMDB (with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting) ✅ Manual Search → Search via TMDB with option to add to Radarr
TV Shows (Sonarr & TMDB)
✅ Recommendations → Read Sonarr library and suggest similar shows via TMDB (with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting) ✅ Manual Search → Search via TMDB with option to add to Sonarr
Music (Lidarr, LastFM, yt-dlp, Spotify)
✅ Manual Search → Search Spotify for music and download via spotDL (which uses yt-dlp) ✅ Recommendations → Generate artist recommendations from LastFM based on Lidarr library (with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting) ✅ Missing List → Read Lidarr library, fetch missing albums and download via yt-dlp
Downloads (via yt-dlp)
✅ Direct Download Page → Input YouTube or Spotify link and download video/audio using spotDL or yt-dlp
Subscriptions (via spotdl and yt-dlp)
✅ Schedule System → Subscribe to YouTube Channels, Spotify or YouTube Playlists and download on a schedule
Or my favorite, Jellyseer. Seems to have mostly the same features. But I’m always looking for more and better.
Ive just installed jellyseer last week and I love it!
I think the scope of this project is more ambitious with the additional media types as well as being a recommendation engine and an arr suite manager
I missed the Readarr part in my initial read through, but that is exciting. Jellyseer kind of has a recommendation section, mostly in popular and trending movies. I think it pulls from Trakt? Not entirely sure on that one. Either way, I’m looking forward to trying Mediawolf.
Read the GitHub, for one Overseer/Jellyseer don’t work for books or music. But there’s more to this than just a request tool.
I just use this
Thats a cool project as well! I dont think there’s very much overlap in functionality between the two
