Byparr > FlareSolverr

Posted by soulsauce

I just saw one of your fairly recent videos about your project that showed FlareSolverr. I’ve always found it to be really hit or miss but found out recently someone has made an amazing drop-in replacement called Byparr. So far it has been literally 100% successful with cloudflare protections. You should seriously consider switching to Byparr. It actually works and it was designed to be a complete drop-in replacement. It's made public trackers totally viable again for me. I haven't tried your project yet because I'm kind of weirded out by it not being open source (I'm just paranoid). But I really like what you're doing. I've somewhat mastered all the apps, docker, etc. but it would have been phenomenal to get started. I love anything that wrangles complexity because we all have tons of services running over time that need some level of management.

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tomspark wrote:

Fully agree — and good news, Byparr has actually been in SparkBox since early June. It ships alongside FlareSolverr with a one-click swap: in the dashboard, open the Media module's settings and flip 'Use Byparr instead of FlareSolverr' on, then restart the media stack. It takes over on the same port, so Prowlarr keeps working without changing anything. FlareSolverr stays the default for now, but the swap is right there for anyone hitting the tougher robot-checks. And the open-source hesitation is a fair stance, no hard feelings — if you ever feel like kicking the tires, you know where to find me.