RapidBay

Rapid bay is a self hosted video service/torrent client that makes playing videos from torrents as easy as:

• Opening the webapp on a phone/laptop/tablet/smartTV.
• Searching for content.
• Selecting desired video file.
• Waiting for Download/Conversion.
• Playing on the device or cast to AppleTV/Chromecast

Features:

• Uses Jackett and/or Prowlarr as a search backend.
• Pick individual video files you want to play and the system takes care of the rest to make it streamable.
• Automatic download of Closed Captions/Subtitles
• Automatically converts the video file and subtitles to be playable on all browsers/chromecast/appletv
• Automatically converts audio that is unsupported by browsers to AAC
• Allows registering as a handler for any magnet link
• Automatically cleans up disk space so you don't need to manage it yourself
• Kodi support

Demo:

Setting up a search backend:

Rapidbay requires a torrent indexer for searching. You can use Jackett, Prowlarr, or both at the same time (results are merged and deduplicated).

Jackett

Have a look here on how to set Jackett up using Docker. There's also a docker-compose example showing how to connect rapidbay and Jackett together.

Prowlarr

See the Prowlarr docs for installation instructions. There's a docker-compose example showing how to connect rapidbay and Prowlarr together.

Running:

With Docker (recommended)

# Using Jackett
docker run -p 5000:5000 -e JACKETTHOST="http://your.jackett.host" -e JACKETTAPI_KEY="YourAPIKey" hauxir/rapidbay
Using Prowlarr
docker run -p 5000:5000 -e PROWLARRHOST="http://your.prowlarr.host" -e PROWLARRAPI_KEY="YourAPIKey" hauxir/rapidbay

Without Docker

System dependencies:

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install python3 python3-venv ffmpeg mediainfo nginx
macOS
brew install python ffmpeg mediainfo nginx

Optional: Install alass for subtitle synchronization.

Install Python dependencies:

# Using uv (recommended)
uv sync
Or using pip
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install .

Run the app:

# Set environment variables (Jackett, Prowlarr, or both)
export JACKETT_HOST="http://your.jackett.host"
export JACKETTAPIKEY="YourAPIKey"
export PROWLARR_HOST="http://your.prowlarr.host"
export PROWLARRAPIKEY="YourAPIKey"
Run directly (without nginx)
cd app
uvicorn app:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 5000 --workers 1 --timeout-keep-alive 900

App will be running at http://localhost:5000

Subtitles

You'll need a VIP account at OpenSubtitles.org for it to work:

-e OPENSUBTITLESUSERNAME=someusername -e OPENSUBTITLESPASSWORD=yourpassword

Configuring which subtitles to download:

The default setting downloads english subtitles.

Add the env variable SUBTITLE_LANGUAGES to your docker params like so to get more languages:

-e SUBTITLE_LANGUAGES="['en', 'de', 'es']"

Require a password:

Add the env variable PASSWORD to your docker params like so to prompt for a password when opening rapidbay:

-e PASSWORD=YOURPASSWORD

Registering as a handler for any magnet link:

• Go to https://\/registerHandler and it should prompt you to register your running RapidBay instance as a default handler for torrent links on any torrent site!
• You can also copy/paste a magnet link directly into the search bar to open magnet links manually.

Developing

Requires Docker + docker-compose

docker-compose up

Running RapidBay on a VPS

Setting RapidBay up on a VPS and tunnel torrent traffic through NordVPN

Using Kodi as a frontend

Setting up Rapidbay with Kodi

Using debrid caching

• You can speed up downloads by using a torrent cache from Real Debrid and/or TorBox
• For Real Debrid, set the env variable RD_TOKEN to the one on https://real-debrid.com/apitoken
• For TorBox, set the env variable TB_TOKEN to your API key from https://torbox.app/settings
• If both are set, Real Debrid is tried first and TorBox is used as a fallback