Your services

Prowlarr

Prowlarr is the one service here with no library of its own. What it brings to Managerr is search — and this page covers what that looks like, and what it does not bring with it.

Connecting Prowlarr

Stock port 9696, and Prowlarr answers on api/v1. The API key is in Prowlarr’s own Settings → General → Security; copy it whole and paste it into the API key field. As with every service, Test Service is what enables Save.

If Prowlarr is served under a URL base, include it in the address. Add a service covers the rest of the editor.

Searching every indexer at once

Prowlarr powers the Search indexers section on Home. One query goes to every indexer Prowlarr manages, and each result names its indexer, its protocol and its size. Home shows three, opens to ten, and hands anything longer to See all results.

The Prowlarr server’s own Search screen is the fuller version: the same releases with their seeder counts, and pickers to narrow a query to one Indexer or one Category, and to choose the Download client instead of the server default. Download sends a release on, and confirms before it does.

Managerr never contacts your indexers itself. The query goes to your Prowlarr server, which queries them, exactly as its own web interface does.

What Prowlarr does not add

Prowlarr has no library. It contributes nothing to Library and nothing to Calendar, and it has no download queue for Activity to show.

If Prowlarr is the only service you have connected, most of the app will be empty. That is correct behaviour rather than a failed connection — Library, Calendar and the queue come from Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr.

History noise

Prowlarr writes a history row for every RSS sync and every search it runs. On a busy set of indexers those rows are most of what Activity’s History shows, and your grabs and imports get pushed down the list by them.

Settings → Home & Library → Hide Prowlarr history in Activity drops them from the combined list. It drops them from that list only: Prowlarr’s own History screen inside Managerr still opens its full history, which is why turning the setting on does not empty that screen.

It ships off. Hiding a connected service’s history unasked reads as the service having stopped reporting, so the app leaves the choice with you. Home & Library has the rest of that screen, and Searches, releases & imports explains what the other history rows mean.

Indexer settings and secrets

A Prowlarr server’s screen in Managerr opens five things — Indexers, Search, Applications, Download clients and History — above thirty days of indexer statistics and the server tools that sync application indexers, refresh indexer definitions or back up the database.

Three of those lists carry credentials inside them. An indexer’s fields can hold an API key; a download client’s can hold a password. Managerr keeps them in the screen you are looking at, and they are never written to local storage, a backup, a widget snapshot or an error message.

Saving one re-fetches the resource first and overwrites only the fields you actually edited. Unknown fields and untouched ones survive — including secrets the server returned masked, which is what stops a save from writing a row of dots back over a working key.

For installation and server configuration, see Prowlarr documentation.