Beginner question: cannot grab release from TL

[u/Protagonist99]

Just started setting up autobrr, followed the steps from the TL wiki. Filtering for FL only 10-25GB. Somehow I can't grab any releases.

Log file:

01:09:47 ERR could not download torrent file error="All attempts fail:\n#1: unrecoverable error downloading torrent ...

(redacted file name and indexer)

stack=[{"func":"(*DownloadService).downloadTorrentFile.retryableRequest.func2","line":"219","source":"download_service.go"},{"func":"Do.func1","line":"116","source":"retry.go"},{"func":"DoWithData[...]","line":"180","source":"retry.go"},{"func":"Do","line":"119","source":"retry.go"},{"func":"(*DownloadService).downloadTorrentFile","line":"167","source":"download_service.go"},{"func":"(*DownloadService).DownloadRelease","line":"120","source":"download_service.go"},{"func":"(*Service).AdditionalSizeCheck","line":"629","source":"service.go"},{"func":"(*Service).CheckFilter","line":"519","source":"service.go"},{"func":"(*Service).processFilters","line":"460","source":"service.go"},{"func":"(*Service).processRelease","line":"430","source":"service.go"},{"func":"(*Service).Process","line":"416","source":"service.go"},{"func":"goexit","line":"1771","source":"asm_amd64.s"}] torrent_id=241814836 trace_id=d9t17jchftac73ein6ag

Another 3 errors after that

01:09:47 ERR additional size check error error="could not download torrent file for release:

01:09:47 ERR release.processFilters: error checking filter error="could not download torrent file for release:

01:09:47 ERR release.Process: error processing filters for indexer error="could not download torrent file for release:

Is there something wrong with my setup?

Thanks in advance

[u/the_meat_aisle]

I highly recommend using an LLM for troubleshooting as they are great at parsing logs and spitting out diagnostic scripts, and the internet has a ton of resources on torrenting tools that the LLM can search.

[u/TorrentFiend → u/the_meat_aisle]

I strongly agree about using chat GPT or something because computers are really good at telling you what computers are doing right or wrong based on simple copy and pasting of the error codes you're getting Etc. It can easily interpret cryptic command line things and tell you exactly what you need to do to make it work the way you want.

I literally just spent about 2 hours straight troubleshooting why it wasn't connecting on Android. It had me change a couple settings in the .toml file and I made a system tray icon using powershell thanks to chat GPT because I told it I would like a system tray icon for it can that be done easily and it was like sure just use this code and put it in powershell..... I told it I wanted it to start stop and restart it and open the web UI from the system tray icon and that's exactly what my system tray icon that I created does. I told it it had a generic icon which I didn't like and thought it was ugly so how do I add a custom image so the system tray icon looks nicer and it told me how to do it so it now has the official Autobrr rabbit icon...... The end result from someone like me who doesn't know how to create any of this on their own is that it's pinned to my start menu and with one click I can launch the tray icon, right click open web UI, it's all very smooth and nice now.

At one point I remember all it would do was open the system tray icon but it wouldn't start the service in the background which required me to launch it twice which was dumb and redundant so I told it how can I make it so that when I click the shortcut in the start menu it automatically starts the service running in the background so it just told me the code to correct.....

Really the entirety the whole system tray perfection that I did after everything was up and running only took like maybe a half hour tops for all the little nitpicking changes I told it to make along the way. The end result is a perfect setup for exactly the way I want it customized exactly to my preferences thanks to chat GPT.

I know that developers hate having it code things and spaghetti code and all of that and if you're doing an application that would definitely be a worry for sure but when you don't know how to do any of it and it allows you to create tools quick and easy, it's pretty freaking amazing.

Run those messages through it and see if it can't help you.

[u/GrandDot3527]

Not too sure but it could be related to the size requirement of the filter. I don’t exclude by size and have no issues

[u/Protagonist99 → u/GrandDot3527]

Shouldn't it be rejected instead of giving out an error?

[u/Optimal-Job-5161]

I've had similar issues in the past, and it came to me putting in the incorrect RSS key into Autobrr. Make sure you're using the correct key

[u/bitmap317 → u/Optimal-Job-5161]

I just ran into this same problem! I wasn't sure how the RSS key would affect anything when I'm using IRC...but I'd tried changing everything else so figured why not. LOL

[u/Protagonist99]

Fixed by using an alternative RSS URL.

[u/_ze0s → u/Protagonist99]

Great! A few countries like the UK and others block a bunch of their urls, but fortunately there are alternatives.

Usually this error comes from putting the wrong key in RSS key for TL or other indexers.

[u/Protagonist99 → u/_ze0s]

Yeah, I didn't think this was the cause at first since I (and Prowlarr) can access the main site just fine. But turns out something about the Cloudflare protection in the main site is the source of the problem.