📺 media-cli

One script to manage your entire *arr media stack from the terminal.
Sonarr / Radarr / Prowlarr / qBittorrent / Bazarr / Jellyseerr

Install • Quick Start • Commands • AI Agents • Remote/SSH

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media-cli is a single bash script that wraps the APIs of your entire media automation stack into simple, memorable commands. No Docker, no Node, no Python packages. Just curl, python3 (for JSON parsing), and your existing *arr setup.

Built for humans who manage media servers from the terminal, and for AI agents that do it on their behalf.

$ media movies search "Interstellar"
 [157336] Interstellar (2014) 169min
    The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole...

$ media movies add "Interstellar"
✅ Added: Interstellar (2014) - Searching for downloads...

$ media downloads active
[  23.4%] Interstellar.2014.1080p.BluRay.x265  (4.2 MB/s) 12m

Supported Services

Service	Status	What it does
Sonarr	Required	TV show search, add, monitor, manage
Radarr	Required	Movie search, add, monitor, manage
Prowlarr	Required	Indexer status and management
qBittorrent	Required	Download monitoring and control
Bazarr	Optional	Subtitle status and history
Jellyseerr	Optional	User requests and trending content
Tdarr	Optional	Transcode monitoring (GPU/CPU worker progress)

Requirements

• bash 4.0+
• curl
• python3 (standard library only, no pip)
• ssh (only if using remote mode)

Install

One-liner:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/solomonneas/media-cli/main/media -o ~/bin/media && chmod +x ~/bin/media

Or clone:

git clone https://github.com/solomonneas/media-cli.git
cd media-cli
bash install.sh

Make sure ~/bin is in your PATH (add export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" to your shell profile if needed).

Quick Start

# 1. Run the setup wizard
media setup

# 2. Test your connection
media status

# 3. Start using it
media movies search "The Matrix"
media shows add "Breaking Bad"
media downloads active

The setup wizard asks for your API URLs and keys, then saves everything to ~/.config/media-cli/config. You can also copy config.example and edit it by hand.

Finding Your API Keys

Service	Where to find it
Sonarr	Settings > General > API Key
Radarr	Settings > General > API Key
Prowlarr	Settings > General > API Key
Bazarr	Settings > General > API Key
Jellyseerr	Settings > General > API Key
qBittorrent	Settings > Web UI > Username/Password

Or grab them from the config files directly:

# Linux
grep -i apikey ~/.config/Sonarr/config.xml
grep -i apikey ~/.config/Radarr/config.xml

# Windows
type C:\ProgramData\Sonarr\config.xml | findstr ApiKey

# Docker
docker exec sonarr cat /config/config.xml | grep ApiKey

Commands

Library

media movies list              # List all movies with download status
media movies search "title"    # Search online (via Radarr)
media movies add "title"       # Add top result + start downloading
media movies remove "title"    # Remove from library (keeps files)
media movies missing           # Show monitored movies without files

media shows list               # List all shows with episode counts
media shows search "title"     # Search online (via Sonarr)
media shows add "title"        # Add top result + search for episodes
media shows remove "title"     # Remove from library (keeps files)

Downloads

media downloads                # List all torrents grouped by state
media downloads active         # Active downloads with speed + ETA
media downloads pause <hash|all>
media downloads resume <hash|all>
media downloads remove <hash> [true]   # true = also delete files

Monitoring

media status                   # Service health + library counts + active downloads
media queue                    # Sonarr/Radarr download queues
media wanted                   # Missing episodes and movies
media calendar [days]          # Upcoming releases (default: 7 days)
media history [sonarr|radarr|all] [limit]
media indexers                 # List Prowlarr indexers
media refresh [movies|shows|all]   # Trigger library rescan

Subtitles (Bazarr)

media subs                     # Wanted subtitles for movies + episodes
media subs history             # Recent subtitle downloads

Requests (Jellyseerr)

media requests                 # Pending user requests
media requests trending        # What's trending
media requests users           # User list with request counts

Transcoding (Tdarr)

media tdarr                    # Status, resources, active workers
media tdarr workers            # Per-file progress: %, fps, size reduction, ETA
media tdarr queue              # Items queued for processing

Connection Modes

Local Mode

Services run on the same machine as the CLI:

MEDIA_HOST="local"

SSH Mode

Services run on a remote host (NAS, dedicated server, Windows box) and bind to localhost. The CLI runs curl commands over SSH:

MEDIA_HOST="ssh:mediaserver"     # Uses your SSH config alias
MEDIA_HOST_OS="linux"            # or "windows"

This is the killer feature for headless servers. Your services don't need to be exposed to the network. The CLI tunnels everything through SSH.

Windows hosts work too. POST requests automatically use PowerShell's Invoke-RestMethod when MEDIA_HOST_OS="windows", so you don't need curl installed on the Windows side.

AI Agent Integration

This CLI was built alongside OpenClaw, an AI agent platform. The commands are designed to be easily parsed by AI assistants.

Any AI agent or automation tool that can run shell commands can use media-cli:

Natural language to commands:

"What shows am I missing episodes for?"

media wanted

"Add Succession and start downloading it"

media shows add "Succession"

"What's actively downloading right now?"

media downloads active

"Pause all downloads"

media downloads pause all

Works with OpenClaw, LangChain tool calling, Claude computer use, or any agent framework that supports shell execution.

How It Works

┌──────────────┐     ┌─────────────────────────┐
│  media-cli   │────▶│  SSH (optional)          │
│  (your box)  │     │  curl commands run on    │
└──────────────┘     │  the media server        │
                     └───────────┬─────────────┘
                                 │
                    ┌────────────┼────────────┐
                    ▼            ▼            ▼
               ┌────────┐  ┌────────┐  ┌──────────┐
               │ Sonarr  │  │ Radarr │  │ Prowlarr │
               │  :8989  │  │  :7878 │  │  :9696   │
               └────────┘  └────────┘  └──────────┘
                    │            │
                    ▼            ▼
               ┌──────────────────────┐
               │    qBittorrent       │
               │       :8080          │
               └──────────────────────┘
                         │
                    ┌────┴────┐
                    ▼         ▼
               ┌────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────┐
               │ Bazarr │ │Jellyseerr │ │ Tdarr │
               │  :6767 │ │   :5055   │ │ :8265 │
               └────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────┘

• Single bash script (~900 lines), no external dependencies
• Talks to *arr v3 APIs (Sonarr/Radarr), v1 (Prowlarr), v2 (qBittorrent WebUI)
• Python3 is used strictly for JSON parsing (standard library only)
• Config file is stored at ~/.config/media-cli/config with chmod 600
• No telemetry, no analytics, no network calls except to your own services

Contributing

PRs welcome. Some ideas:

• Lidarr support (music)
• Readarr support (books)
• Tab completion (bash/zsh)
• Interactive mode (fzf-based search and select)
• Notification hooks (Discord/Telegram on download complete)
• Tdarr integration (transcode status, worker progress, queue)

License

MIT