MediaWolf – A Missing Piece for the Arr Stack, Open for Contributors
Hey lemming self-hosters,
I came across MediaWolf recently and wanted to share it here. It’s an open-source project that’s tackling a big gap in the media automation space. If you use Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, Readarr, or any part of the Arr stack, you know how powerful they are for managing and downloading media. But despite how great they are individually, they don’t always work together as smoothly as they could.
That’s where MediaWolf comes in. It’s designed to tie everything together... acting as a discovery hub, recommendation engine, and management tool to help you find, organize, and automate your media library across multiple services. Instead of manually juggling requests between different apps, MediaWolf aims to make it all feel more seamless.
With MediaWolf, the idea is to bring everything under one roof... a central place to discover, recommend, and manage media without bouncing between multiple dashboards. Think of it as a missing bridge between the different pieces of your media automation setup.
The Project Needs Contributors
The creator, TheWickedWolf, recently posted on Reddit looking for developers to help bring MediaWolf to life. The project is already in motion, but for it to really thrive, it needs more people involved. Since it’s built in a modular way, you don’t have to commit to the entire project, just focus on a specific part that interests you.
New features? There’s room for innovation.
Bug fixes and improvements? Always welcome.
UI/UX enhancements? Could use some polish.
Open-Source and Accepting PRs
If you’re into media automation, open-source development, or just want to help improve how the Arr stack works together, this is a great project to check out. The team is actively accepting pull requests, and the creator is open to adding new contributors.
Repo: GitHub – MediaWolf
If you've ever wanted a smarter, more integrated way to work with the Arr stack, this might be it.
[Edit: removed an incoherent description of the service]
How is this any different from Overseerr?
Or Jellyseer for us jellyfin users.
Or my favorite, Jellyseer. Seems to have mostly the same features. But I'm always looking for more and better.
Ive just installed jellyseer last week and I love it!
I think the scope of this project is more ambitious with the additional media types as well as being a recommendation engine and an arr suite manager
I missed the Readarr part in my initial read through, but that is exciting. Jellyseer kind of has a recommendation section, mostly in popular and trending movies. I think it pulls from Trakt? Not entirely sure on that one. Either way, I'm looking forward to trying Mediawolf.
Here's the rundown from the repo:
Proposed Project Features:
Books (Readarr & Anna’s Archive)
✅ Missing List → Read from Readarr, fetch missing books and auto-download via Anna’s Archive ✅ Manual Search → Search Anna’s Archive and download books (user selection and defined file structure) ✅ Recommendations → Generate book suggestions based on Readarr library (using a background tasks to scrape from Goodreads) - with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting
Movies (Radarr & TMDB)
✅ Recommendations → Read Radarr library and suggest similar movies via TMDB (with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting) ✅ Manual Search → Search via TMDB with option to add to Radarr
TV Shows (Sonarr & TMDB)
✅ Recommendations → Read Sonarr library and suggest similar shows via TMDB (with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting) ✅ Manual Search → Search via TMDB with option to add to Sonarr
Music (Lidarr, LastFM, yt-dlp, Spotify)
✅ Manual Search → Search Spotify for music and download via spotDL (which uses yt-dlp) ✅ Recommendations → Generate artist recommendations from LastFM based on Lidarr library (with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting) ✅ Missing List → Read Lidarr library, fetch missing albums and download via yt-dlp
Downloads (via yt-dlp)
✅ Direct Download Page → Input YouTube or Spotify link and download video/audio using spotDL or yt-dlp
Subscriptions (via spotdl and yt-dlp)
✅ Schedule System → Subscribe to YouTube Channels, Spotify or YouTube Playlists and download on a schedule
Read the GitHub, for one Overseer/Jellyseer don't work for books or music. But there's more to this than just a request tool.