Install Jackett Raspberry Pi for Custom Torrents in Sonarr

Jackett lets you use many torrent providers with Sonarr or CouchPotato by enabling your home media server to act as Torznab API server. Jackett enables popular torrent providers to be searched using Sonarr and CouchPotato, the list of compatible providers can be found here.

This guide will walk you through installing and autostarting Jackett on the Raspberry Pi. If you are looking to add your custom Torznab providers in Sonarr, there is a guide for that, the CouchPotato equivalent will follow. I will assume you already have Sonarr installed and therefore the required mono packages that Jackett also uses. The guide was tested on Minibian Wheezy and Jessie but will work on Raspbian too.

If you are trying to figure out which hardware would work best for you, consider reading the Pi benchmarks.

Install Jackett on Raspberry Pi for Custom Torrents in Sonarr

Install libcurl and bzip to decompress Jackett

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev bzip2 -y

Download the latest Jackett release, I have automated grabbing the newest release but if it doesn't work check here or here to get the URL.

Note the Jackett that supports public trackers is here

jackettver=$(wget -q https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/releases/latest -O - | grep -E \/tag\/ | awk -F "[><]" '{print $3}')
wget -q https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/releases/download/$jackettver/Jackett.Binaries.Mono.tar.gz

Unpack the Jackett release (adjust the filename if you downloaded a newer version)

tar -xvf Jackett*

Make the Jackett installation folder

sudo mkdir /opt/jackett

Move the unzipped Jackett installation

sudo mv Jackett/* /opt/jackett

Change ownership of Jackett to your main user

sudo chown -R pi:pi /opt/jackett

Test running Jackett which runs on port 9117 http://ip.address:9117

mono /opt/jackett/JackettConsole.exe

Kill the Jackett process with Ctrl+C so we can start it automatically on boot using an init.d script

Autostart Jackett on Raspberry Pi

You only need to use the init.d script or the upstart script or the systemd script

This command will tell you which startup type you are using, if you see systemd use systemd, for anything else use the init.d script

sudo stat /proc/1/exe

Jackett init.d Script

Create the Jackett init.d startup script

sudo nano /etc/init.d/jackett

Paste the Jackett init.d script (thank you Wesley), adjust your RUN_AS value to your main user

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: Jackett
# Required-Start: $local_fs $network $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $network $remote_fs
# Should-Start: $NetworkManager
# Should-Stop: $NetworkManager
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts instance of Jackett
# Description: starts instance of Jackett using start-stop-daemon
### END INIT INFO

############### EDIT ME ##################
# path to app
APP_PATH=/opt/jackett

# user
RUN_AS=pi

# path to mono bin
DAEMON=$(which mono)

# Path to store PID file
PID_FILE=/run/jackett/jackett.pid
PID_PATH=$(dirname $PID_FILE)

# script name
NAME=jackett

# app name
DESC=Jackett

# startup args
EXENAME="JackettConsole.exe"
DAEMON_OPTS=" "$EXENAME

############### END EDIT ME ##################

JACKETT_PID=`ps auxf | grep $EXENAME | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

#Look for PID and create if doesn't exist
if [ ! -d $PID_PATH ]; then
	mkdir -p $PID_PATH
	chown $RUN_AS $PID_PATH
fi

if [ ! -d $DATA_DIR ]; then
	mkdir -p $DATA_DIR
	chown $RUN_AS $DATA_DIR
fi

if [ -e $PID_FILE ]; then
	PID=`cat $PID_FILE`
		if ! kill -0 $PID > /dev/null 2>&1; then
		echo "Removing stale $PID_FILE"
		rm $PID_FILE
	fi
fi

echo $JACKETT_PID > $PID_FILE

case "$1" in
start)
if [ -z "${JACKETT_PID}" ]; then
	echo "Starting $DESC"
	rm -rf $PID_PATH || return 1
	install -d --mode=0755 -o $RUN_AS $PID_PATH || return 1
	start-stop-daemon -d $APP_PATH -c $RUN_AS --start --background --pidfile $PID_FILE --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
	else
	echo "Jackett already running."
fi
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping $DESC"
echo $JACKETT_PID > $PID_FILE
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PID_FILE --retry 15
;;

restart|force-reload)
echo "Restarting $DESC"
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PID_FILE --retry 15
start-stop-daemon -d $APP_PATH -c $RUN_AS --start --background --pidfile $PID_FILE --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
;;
status)
# Use LSB function library if it exists
if [ -f /lib/lsb/init-functions ]; then
	. /lib/lsb/init-functions
if [ -e $PID_FILE ]; then
	status_of_proc -p $PID_FILE "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $?
	else
	log_daemon_msg "$NAME is not running"
	exit 3
fi

else
# Use basic functions
if [ -e $PID_FILE ]; then
	PID=`cat $PID_FILE`
if kill -0 $PID > /dev/null 2>&1; then
	echo " * $NAME is running"
	exit 0
fi
else
	echo " * $NAME is not running"
	exit 3
fi
fi
;;
*)
N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0

Make the Jackett init.d script executable

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/jackett

Update your system to use the Jackett init.d script

sudo update-rc.d jackett defaults

Now start the Jackett service

sudo service jackett start

Jackett Systemd Script

Create the Jacket systemd service

nano /etc/systemd/system/jackett.service

Paste the Jackett systemd script, double check your mono path by running which mono and make sure it matches the path in ExecStart

[Unit]
Description=Jackett Daemon
After=network.target

[Service]
User=pi
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/mono --debug /opt/jackett/JackettConsole.exe
TimeoutStopSec=20

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable the Jackett systemd script

sudo systemctl enable jackett

Start the Jackett systemd script

sudo service jackett start

You can access Jackett on port 9117. Follow the  Jackett configuration guide so you can add custom torrents in Sonarr.