Whisparr

Overview

Whisparr is an automated adult content collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It monitors your watchlist, scans configured indexers for releases, and sends matches to your download client. After download, it renames and organizes files into your media library and can notify your media server.

Project Details

Project Repository: https://whisparr.com/
Container Image: ghcr.io/hotio/whisparr
Reverse Proxy Port: 6969

Getting Started

Prepare the shared media folder (once per host)

All media apps run as user 1000 and share /data/media. If Docker creates the folder itself it's owned by root, and the apps fail with "Folder '/media/' is not writable by user 'hotio'". Create it with the right owner before first start:

sudo mkdir -p /data/media/{downloads/prowlarr,movies,shows,music,books,adult}
sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /data/media
sudo chmod -R u+rwX,g+rwX /data/media

Check with ls -ln /data/media — the owner should be 1000 1000.

Open http://localhost:6969 in your browser and complete the initial setup wizard:

Choose your UI language
Add a download client — select qBittorrent, enter its host/port/credentials
Add an indexer — or connect to Prowlarr for automatic indexer sync

Once the wizard finishes, you'll see an empty library. To populate it:

Go to Settings → Media Management and add a Root Folder /media/adult — Stash sees this same folder at /adult
Click Add Movie and search by title — Whisparr fetches metadata and available releases
Optionally connect a List to auto-import from your watchlists

Download flow

qBittorrent downloads to /media/downloads/prowlarr → Whisparr picks it up, renames the file, and moves it into <Root Folder>/Title (Year)/

Environment Variable Notes

Variable	Description
`WHISPARR_IMAGE`	Container image (default: `ghcr.io/hotio/whisparr:release`)
`WHISPARR_RESTART`	Restart policy (default: `unless-stopped`)
`WHISPARR_PORT`	Published port for the web UI (default: `6969`)
`VOL_PATH`	Base path for persistent data volumes (default: `/data`)
`WHISPARR_MEDIA`	Shared media root on the host (default: `/data/media`), mounted at `/media`. Downloads land in `/media/downloads/prowlarr`, library in `/media/adult`
`TZ`	Container timezone (default: `America/Vancouver`)

Volume Notes

Volume	Purpose
`${VOL_PATH:-/data}/whisparr/config`	Application configuration and database
`${WHISPARR_MEDIA:-/data/media}` → `/media`	Shared media root: downloads in `/media/downloads/prowlarr`, library in `/media/adult`

Network Notes

Requires an external proxy network. Create it once with:

docker network create proxy

Docker Run

docker run -d \
  --name=whisparr \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e UMASK=002 \
  -e TZ=America/Vancouver \
  -p 6969:6969 \
  -v ${VOL_PATH:-/data}/whisparr/config:/config \
  -v ${WHISPARR_MEDIA:-/data/media}:/media \
  --network proxy \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  ghcr.io/hotio/whisparr:release

Additional Notes / Gotchas

Works with Stash, not Jellyfin. Whisparr's library is /data/media/adult on the host. The Stash stack mounts that same folder at /adult (STASH_ADULT_PATH), so in Stash add /adult as a library path (Settings → Library). Jellyfin doesn't mount it.
One shared media folder. qBittorrent and Whisparr both mount /data/media at /media, so download paths match (no Remote Path Mapping) and imports can use hardlinks. Enable Settings → Media Management → Use Hardlinks instead of Copy.
Rescan after import. Turn on a scheduled library scan in Stash (or scan manually) so new imports show up.
In the qBittorrent download client settings, set Category to prowlarr.

Dockhand Stack, Deploy from Git

Cookbooks Repository
stackname: whisparr
Compose file path: whisparr/compose.yaml
Additional env file (optional): whisparr/sample.env

Load whisparr/sample.env into the Environment variables in Dockhand, then create the Stack.

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