Overseerr Auto Request

Overseerr is a fantastic application, which allows your friends to request movies and TV series for your Plex Server. However, it lacks a built-in way to automatically re-request specific titles once they get denied.

This application solves that problem! Simply configure the movies and TV shows you want to keep requesting, run the program, and let it handle the rest. No more manual re-requesting—just set it and forget it!

Building and running comes in three-ish flavours, mentioned below accordingly.

Build

You can build the auto requester using Cabal, Nix, and Docker.

Cabal

If you have Cabal installed, you can build the binary with

cabal build

Nix

If you have Nix installed, you can build the derivation with

nix run

You don't even need to pull the repo to do this, just run

nix run github:imatpot/overseerr-auto-request

on your machine to build and run the auto requester.

Docker

If you have Docker installed, you can build the image with

docker build -t overseerr-auto-request .

or

docker compose build

Run

As with building, you can run the auto requester using Cabal, Nix, and Docker.

Cabal

If you have Cabal installed, you can run the auto requester with

cabal run

Nix

If you have Nix installed, you can run the auto requester with

nix run

Again, use

nix run github:imatpot/overseerr-auto-request

to run the auto requester without pulling the repo.

Docker

If you have Docker installed and you built the image, you can run the auto requester with

docker run overseerr-auto-request

or, alternatively, you can use Docker Compose:

docker compose up

You can also use the prebuilt image on GitHub CR with

docker run \
    -e EMAIL="[email protected]" \
    -e PASSWORD="password" \
    -e OVERSEERR_URL="https://example.com" \
    -e MOVIES="40016,126486" \
    -e DEBOUNCE_SECONDS=300 \
    ghcr.io/imatpot/overseerr-auto-request

Environment Variables

The auto requester requires several environment variables to run. Copy the .env.schema file to .env and fill in the values, or set them accordingly in your environment.

Variable	Description	Required	Default
EMAIL	The email address you use to locally log in to Overseerr.	🚩
PASSWORD	The password you use to locally log in to Overseerr.	🚩
OVERSEERR_URL	The URL of your Overseerr instance.	🚩
MOVIES	A comma-separated list of movie titles you want to keep requesting.
TV_SHOWS	A comma-separated list of TV show titles you want to keep requesting.
DEBOUNCE_SECONDS	The number of seconds to wait between request batches.		300

Debugging

For debugging purposes, the auto requester comes with an HTTP-sink. This sink allows you to inspect the requests your sending by redirecting them to your localhost.

Here's how to run the sink:

cabal run http-sink   # using Cabal
nix run .#http-sink   # using Nix

You cannot run the sink in Docker. If you really want to run it in Docker, do yourself a favour and just run an Nginx container instead.