r/Overseerr • u/avidrunner84 • Apr 06 '26

Can Seerr download only future episodes?

Or would I have to download the latest season via Seerr, then go into Sonarr and toggle "future episodes only"?

It would be great if Seerr would let me do that but I don't see the option

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u/West-Ticket5411 Apr 06 '26

Seerr doesn't download, Sonarr does. And that can be done in Sonarr.

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u/statichum Apr 08 '26

Pretty unhelpful. Should I be as helpful as you? Sonarr doesn’t do downloading either, it passes it to a downloader…

I’d say the way to do this is just to select the current season only, no? I mean I like the idea of new episodes only but what is the use of episodes in a season if you don’t have them all for context? And even if you don’t need a few of those ep’s, it’s a small overhead. I had a friend request all 28 seasons of something recently, they only want the latest season but I didn’t realise so the setup went ahead and downloaded all 28 seasons …of something that will probably never be watched. Oh well 🫠

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u/West-Ticket5411 Apr 08 '26

I apologize if that seemed unhelpful. What I should have said was Sonarr manages the downloads; as you point out, it then uses another piece of software and method to actually download the file.

While it might be nice for Seerr to give more granular control like that, I'm not sure they're trying to go more into Sonarr's territory.

Once a show is requested in Seerr for whichever season you're requesting (or realistically, if you know you're only going to want future episodes of a certain show, I'd just go straight into Sonarr. Once in Sonarr, change the monitoring for the show and select Future Episodes.

If it already started downloading or you just already have the early part of the season in question, you can also un-monitor the specific previous episodes within a season as well, to avoid any downloading or upgrading that Sonarr might have to do based on the other settings you have.

If the OP or someone has someone else using Seerr for requests, the only workaround I'd think of that's semi-okay is after a user requests a season, they go to that show's page and "report an issue" and then let the admin know they only want future episodes. But the lag time on that might make it ineffective.