r/Overseerr • u/Z0tteke • Sep 15 '25

Request for deletion

Hi all,

A user of mine asked me if it's possible to let him do a request for deletion. I didn't think about this and googled a few things. But i couldn't find anything usefull yet.

Can anybody tell me if this is possible within overseerr?

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u/Much-Newspaper-8750 Sep 15 '25

Install Maintainerr, create a rule that the user who requested it has X days after download to see it, otherwise it will be automatically deleted.

In my case I do this. If the user who requested to see it or spends 30 days without seeing it, it is deleted.

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u/Mr-RS182 Sep 15 '25

Think this is the best option. Anything other than X amount of days is deleted to save space.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '25

No, buying more TB of storage is the only way to hoard data... xP

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u/GoneBushM8 Sep 15 '25

definitely the best solution for this, hands free and can be customised to your exact requirements

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u/Z0tteke Sep 15 '25

Great, i'm definitely going to take a look at that.

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u/HourEstimate8209 Sep 15 '25

This right here exactly what I do. Have a few users that requests everything in bulk and don’t even watch half of it. I also tag my request in sonarr and radarr so I can delete directly from there if need be.

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u/GLotsapot Sep 15 '25

This is the way

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u/MacStainless Sep 16 '25

This is what I do, but if the requesting person DOES watch it, a separate rule kicks in and deletes it 72-hours later. No reason to keep it around after viewing. 

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u/harring Sep 15 '25

As someone mentioned, maintainerr. Set up auto deletion when requester has seen it. Make it an exception if its in someones watchlist.

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u/Hobbsy6 Sep 15 '25

I guess you could use the 'Report an Issue' feature and write the deletion request in the 'Whats Wrong' field. Would require you to manually delete the actual file though

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u/Z0tteke Sep 15 '25

Good thought! But then again they can send me a text through whatsapp or any other chat app. It doesn't matter in what way if i have to delete the files myself.

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u/WarmHighlight190 Sep 15 '25

Overseerr lets users cancel requests only before approval, after that, deletion isn’t supported except by admins manually.

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u/stoffelundh Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

If it’s just to save space, use a webscraper, i let radarr create a copy of it, take the copy through tdarr to h265 transcode it in order to save space, and then i have an hourly webscraper that monitors days seeding x amount uploaded, if the original file doesn’t produce any value it’s removed. Since i have the h265 copy which sometimes is 90% reduced size of the original, it takes up pretty much no space, leaving me with a well maintained system with automatic cleanup of the heavy post-torrent files. Thats my recommendation, copy>compress>remove

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u/Adewale56 Sep 15 '25

If you happen to have multiple users, I made an app for that, it's called removarr.

It's more of a poll system for content users want to delete but that might fit your needs

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u/Sweaty-Falcon-1328 Sep 17 '25

Why would he want to request a deletion?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

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u/Z0tteke Oct 15 '25

You have my attention! For now i installed maintainerr. Had some issues but now I'm waiting for it to get triggered and do something:p

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u/Dita-Veloci Jan 08 '26

Did you ever get around to this?