NZBGet Video Sorting

Another great plugin for NZBGet is one that allows all content downloaded to be automatically sorted/renamed into a very conventional format. The amazing tool that does this is VideoSort. I’ve also gone ahead and packaged this so it would easy to use in a CentOS/Fedora enviroment like everything else:

# Install the videosort plugin from the Nuxref repository
sudo dnf install -y nzbget-script-videosort

# VideoSort can be a bit confusing to setup the first time; so the best way I can
# make this incredibly easy for you is to pre-load you with some good default
# configuration.  Here is how you can do it:

# First stop NZBGet:
sudo systemctl stop nzbget

# Backup the configuration file (so you can restore things they way they
# were if you don't like my approach):
sudo cp /etc/nzbget.conf /etc/nzbget.conf.backup

# Now thrown in our default configuration
# (just copy and paste the below):
NZBGETCFG=/etc/nzbget.conf

# First tidy up any conflicting entries (don't worry
# you backed this file up remember, we can roll back if you're
# not happy after:
sudo sed -i '/Videosort/d' $NZBGETCFG
sudo sed -i '/Category[0-9]\+/d' $NZBGETCFG

# Now copy in our new settings:
( cat << _EOF
# Custom Categories
Category1.Name=movies
# (option <DestDir>) is used. In this case if the option <AppendCategoryDir>
Category1.DestDir=\${DestDir}/Movies
Category1.Unpack=yes
Category1.Extensions=VideoSort.py, Notify.py
Category1.Aliases=movies*
Category2.Name=tv
Category2.DestDir=\${DestDir}/TVShows
Category2.Unpack=yes
Category2.Extensions=VideoSort.py, Notify.py
Category2.Aliases=hdtv, tv*, s??e??

# VideoSort Script
VideoSort.py:MoviesDir=\${DestDir}/Movies
VideoSort.py:SeriesDir=\${DestDir}/TVShows
VideoSort.py:DatedDir=\${DestDir}/TVShows
VideoSort.py:OtherTvDir=\${DestDir}/TVShows
VideoSort.py:TvCategories=tv
VideoSort.py:VideoExtensions=.mkv,.avi,.divx,.xvid,.mov,.wmv,.mp4,.mpg,.mpeg,.vob,.iso
VideoSort.py:SatelliteExtensions=.srt,.sub,.idx,.subs.rar,.rar,.nfo,.jpg
VideoSort.py:MinSize=100
VideoSort.py:MoviesFormat=%.t.(%y)/%.t.%y.%qss.%qf.%qvc-%qrg
VideoSort.py:SeriesFormat=%s.n/S%0s/%s.n.S%0sE%0e.%e.n.%qss.%qf.%qvc-%qrg
VideoSort.py:EpisodeSeparator=E
VideoSort.py:SeriesYear=yes
VideoSort.py:DatedFormat=%s.n/%s.n-%e.n-%y-%0m-%0d
VideoSort.py:OtherTvFormat=%t
VideoSort.py:LowerWords=the,of,and,at,vs,a,an,but,nor,for,on,so,yet
VideoSort.py:UpperWords=III,II,IV
VideoSort.py:DNZBHeaders=yes
VideoSort.py:PreferNZBName=yes
VideoSort.py:Overwrite=no
VideoSort.py:Cleanup=yes
VideoSort.py:Preview=no
VideoSort.py:Verbose=no
_EOF
) | sudo tee -a $NZBGETCFG

# Restart our NZBGet instance so it takes on the new configuration
sudo systemctl start nzbget

Firewall Configuration

The package will provide you the files needed to set up the firewall and make NZBGet available to you from other stations by simply doing the following:

# Assuming your network is set up to the `home` zone, the following
# sets you up to expose TCP Port 6789 on your network
firewall-cmd --zone=home --add-service nzbget --permanent

# You can optionally expose your secure instance of NZBGet on TCP
# port 6791 as well if you want
firewall-cmd --zone=home --add-service nzbget-secure --permanent

# Now reload your firewall to take on the new change:
firewall-cmd --reload

You can start it up with the command:

# Install SABnzbd from the Nuxref repository
sudo dnf install -y sabnzbd

# Add SABnzbd to the startup of your system
sudo systemctl enable sabnzbd.service

# Start it up now if you like too!
sudo systemctl start sabnzbd.service

You’ll now be able to access the web page through your browser accessing:
http://localhost:9080.

Here is a breakdown of how the custom SABnzbd package works:

• All of your log files will show up in /var/log/sabnzbd/sabnzbd.log
• All of configuration will get written to /etc/sabnzbd/sabnzbd.conf
• All of the variable data (file processing, etc) will be located in /var/lib/sabnzbd/*. In fact this is a very important directory because unless you configure things differently, all downloaded content will appear in /var/lib/sabnzbd/complete.

To grant users on your system access to the data available through SABnzbd, simply just add them to the sabnzbd group:

# swap the USER with your username you want to add to the
# sabnzbd group:
sudo usermod -aG sabnzbd USER

Firewall Configuration

The package will provide you the files needed to set up the firewall and make SABnzbd available to you from other stations by simply doing the following:

# Assuming your network is set up to the `home` zone, the following
# sets you up to expose TCP Port 9080 on your network
firewall-cmd --zone=home --add-service sabnzbd --permanent

# You can optionally expose your secure instance of SABnzbd on TCP
# port 9090 as well if you want
firewall-cmd --zone=home --add-service sabnzbd-secure --permanent

# Now reload your firewall to take on the new change:
firewall-cmd --reload

SABnzbd Notifications

SABnzbd can keep you posted on what it’s doing by sending you emails when a download completes (or fails). But it’s not just emails it can use as a medium; it can be Gotify, Twitter, Telegram, Amazon SNS, Slack, etc.

To leverage the notification features, you just need to install the NZB-Notify Plugin:

# Install the notification plugin from the Nuxref repository
sudo dnf install -y sabnzbd-script-notify

To enable it, you simply need to need to access the Notifications tab from within the SABnzbd Configuration section.

1. Select the Enable notification script checkbox
2. Select the Notify.py script from the dropdown list next to the Script category
3. Next to the Parameter category, you must specify the URL(s) identifying which service(s) you want to notify.Depending on what you want plan on alerting, the URL(s) you specify in the Parameter field will vary. You can get a better understanding of the URL options supported here.

NGinX Frontend

Regardless of what downloader you chose to setup from the instructions above, you should NEVER directly expose SABnzbd or NZBGet to the internet… EVER! ALWAYS uses some sort of proxy to bridge the internet from systems you run on your local network. NGinX (pronounced Engine-X) can solve this very thing for you. NginX is much more actively maintained and focuses entirely protecting your servers while allowing them to safely host their backend HTTP(S) solutions.

# Install NGinX and httpd-tools (if they're not there already)
sudo dnf install nginx httpd-tools

# Add nginx to the startup of your system
sudo systemctl enable nginx.service

# Start it up now if you like too!
sudo systemctl start nginx.service

# Expose port 80 and port 443
sudo firewall-cmd --zone=home --add-service http --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --zone=home --add-service https --permanent

# If you're installing NginX on the same server that you've installed
# SABnzbd or NGinX on, make sure you no longer expose the ports associated
# with them anymore:
sudo firewall-cmd --zone=home --remove-service nzbget --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --zone=home --remove-service nzbget-secure --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --zone=home --remove-service sabnzbd --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --zone=home --remove-service sabnzbd-secure --permanent

# Now reload your firewall to take on the new change:
firewall-cmd --reload

Now add the following into your /etc/nginx/default.d/usenet.conf file:

   # NZBGet wrapper
   location /nzbget/ {
      proxy_pass   http://localhost:6789;
      proxy_cache  off;

      # Simple Security
      auth_basic            "Restricted Usenet Area";
      auth_basic_user_file  usenet.htpasswd;
   }

   # SABnzbd wrapper
   location /sabnzbd/ {
      proxy_pass   http://localhost:9080;
      proxy_cache  off;

      # Simple Security
      auth_basic            "Restricted Usenet Area";
      auth_basic_user_file  usenet.htpasswd;
   }

Now let’s set up a simple password file we can use to secure our content.

# Generate a password for the user 'usenet'.  You might want to
# switch this for your own name if you like:
sudo htpasswd -c /etc/nginx/usenet.htpasswd usenet

# you will be prompted to enter a password to associate with your
# new user.  Go ahead and provide one! :)

# You can generate more account if you want too; just remove the
# -c for future calls. e.g:
# sudo htpasswd  /etc/nginx/usenet.htpasswd user2

# It wouldn't hurt to just enhance the security associated with our
# new password file (for prying eyes):
chown root.nginx /etc/nginx/usenet.htpasswd
chmod 640 /etc/nginx/usenet.htpasswd

# You're almost done!

# Make sure your configuration won't break anything
nginx -t -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

# If the above passed okay, then it's safe to make your configuration
# live.
sudo systemctl reload nginx

Credit

Please note that this information took me several days to put together and test thoroughly. There was a tremendous effort put in place to make all versions of these programs compatible with all recent RPM based Linux distributions. I may not blog often; but I want to re-assure the stability and testing I put into everything I intend share.

If you like what you see and wish to copy and paste this HOWTO, please reference back to this blog post at the very least. It’s really all I ask.

Sources

• NZBGet’s official website.
• SABnzbd’s official website.
• Older blog on setting up NZBGet for CentOS 7.x
• Older blog on setting up SABnzbd for CentOS 7.x
• Just another blog on a good Usenet solution that I wrote years ago. There is still some good info in here to check out.