Anyone know what's going on with ShadowBG?

MalReynolds, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Make your own ! Disclaimer: you need to use docker

1. Acquire the database rarbg_db.zip - 393.8Mb, there’s torrents
2. docker-compose.yaml…

<span style="color:#323232;">shadowdb:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   image: "fullaxx/shadowbg"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   container_name: "shadowdb"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   ports:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     - ${SHADOWDB_PORT}:80
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   restart: unless-stopped
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   volumes:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     - ${DOCKERDIR}/shadowdb/rarbg_db.sqlite:/data/rarbg_db.sqlite
</span>

3. There is no 3, search and profit…

abbadon420, 11 months ago

“Just download the db.zip” sounds kinda scammy. Just saying…

MalReynolds, 11 months ago

Eh, it’s this com, if you know, you know, and due diligence is expected.

But to help, when they fell they dropped their db as a torrent. I passed the size as an indicator of a known (to me) good. Try or don’t.

Dirk_Darkly, 11 months ago

Anything involving pirating is scammy, that’s just the nature of things. It’s expected one knows how to do research and take calculated risks.

abbadon420, 11 months ago

And a file called “rarbg-db.zip” doesn’t raise any flags? There’s naming conventions for files like this, so you know what the general content is, who the uploader or repackager is, some more info and also to make it look more honest. I wouldn’t trust this.

Necronomicommunist, 11 months ago

Cool, then don’t.

DeimosE2, 11 months ago

It’s mostly text files. Completely safe.

madcaesar, 11 months ago

I’m trying to set this up but getting shadowdb exited with code 1.

Is this supposed to also make a front end accessible or something? Myip:80?

MalReynolds, 11 months ago

Yeah, there’s a frontend, replace ${SHADOWDB_PORT} with your desired port. Maybe restart in portainer, it’s not the most robust, but it works.

WoodenBleachers, 11 months ago

I wish I would’ve known about this. 1337 isn’t nearly as good of a site. I’m thinking about getting something like Overseer just to not have to deal with torrent sites since RARBG went down

Fenzik, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

You still have to have indexers, so you need to deal with them indirectly, but the UI is sooo much nicer. Sonarr/Radarr are pretty easy too. If you know your way around docker you can get it up and running pretty quick.