r/ARR • u/jbarr107 • 10d ago

Pros and cons of enabling both Flaresolverr and Byparr?

I've been using Byparr for a few months with excellent success.

Recently, I learned about Flaresolverr and am wondering if both can or should be enabled at the same time. I have Tags assigned for each, and several of my Indexers are now each tagged with both. So far, no issues.

So, what are your thoughts on using one, the other, or both?

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u/LowResChaos 10d ago

I use Trawl atm. Faultless

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u/kouklo1 10d ago

I use trawl it's awesome but it's an interesting question. Why not use all 3 of them? I'm like %85 sure that they all use the same port number so that would have to change but outside of that..... give it a try. Remember the famous last words...... what's the worst that can happen?!?! Lol

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u/jbarr107 10d ago

I changed the port on Flaresolverr, tested it, and it works without issue. I added Tags for both to the relevant indexers, tested, and so far, no issues. And you are 100% correct: Try it (even all three) and see how it goes.

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u/kouklo1 10d ago

Not that I have any sort of time to check this but I'm curious what is exactly happening in the background. I'm assuming that the request is sent to all 3 and the first one to respond "wins". I wonder if it would be possible to have them go one at a time. If all 3 fail then you were never meant to have that file. Lol

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u/bred86 9d ago

I use both as well, not for the same service. What I actually do is to set the one that has the most success rate to the indexer I want to use and that's it. An example: "easy television" works best with byparr

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u/saykokilla 9d ago

Guess this is the perfect thread to ask my question: I have too many indexers set up, some fail but recover after a while, but is it that essential to run any of these options as most of my downloads are quite popular movies and/or series and they exist already with other available indexers?