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Jackett works as a proxy server.

It translates queries from apps (Sonarr, SickRage, CouchPotato, Mylar, etc) into tracker-site-specific http queries, parses the html response, then sends results back to the requesting software.
This allows for getting recent uploads (like RSS) and performing searches.
Jackett is a single repository of maintained indexer scraping & translation logic - removing the burden from other apps.

Create the Jackett Directories

Jackett will store its configuration data in a directory on the Host VM.

On the Ubuntu VM Host, create a directory for this config data.

mkdir /home/peter/jackett
mkdir /home/peter/jackett/config
mkdir /home/peter/jackett/downloads

NOTE: The downloads directory will be used by other services too, so not within the jackett directory.

Determine the UID and GID

On the Ubuntu VM Host:

id peter

returns:

uid=1000(peter) gid=1000(peter) groups=1000(peter)...

NOTE: Take a note of the UID and GID numbers.

In this case 1000.

Install Jackett

In Portainer:

Select Stack.
Click Add Stack.
Name: Jackett.

Web editor:

docker-compose

---
version: "2.1"
services:
  jackett:
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/jackett
    container_name: jackett
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/Jersey
      - AUTO_UPDATE=true #optional
#      - RUN_OPTS=<run options here> #optional
    volumes:
      - /home/peter/jackett/config:/config
      - /home/peter/jackett/downloads:/downloads
    ports:
      - 9117:9117
    restart: unless-stopped

NOTE: Change settings as required.

/home/peter/jackett/config: This directory will need to be created on the host.
/home/peter/jackett/downloads: This directory contains the downloads.
PUID and GUID: Set to the numbers determined earlier.
Port 9117: Change as required.

Confirm Jackett is running

Open Portainer.

Press F5 to refresh.

NOTE: This should show the Jackett container running.

Open Jackett

Visit http://192.168.1.30:9117 in a browser.

NOTE: The IP address is whatever the Ubuntu VM is using.

The 9117 port is the port configured for Jackett.

It is suggested to set this URL in the web browser to be the default loading page.

Setup Jackett

Configure as required.

References

https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/jackett

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