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SABnzbd Scripts

A collection of community-provided and maintained scripts for SABnzbd.

If you have a script you want to share, don't hesitate to create a PR for it.

Because these scripts are community-provided and maintained we can't assure that they are still 100% working

Prerequisites

  • You've created folder called scripts in the root directory of SABnzbd
  • You've set the scripts folder inside the SABnzbd settings under Folder > User Folders > Scripts Folder. (More Infos)
  • Your script got sufficient rights to execute. (More Infos)

Clean

Clean NZB name
  • Title: Clean.py
  • Author(s): ???
  • Made compatible for SABnzbd: AlexK

Removes the following suffixes from NZB name: NZBgeek / Obfuscated / BUYMORE / Scrambled /etc... Cleans the NZB name by removing the retagged stuff (-Obfuscated, -postbox, etc).

Install Instructions:

1. Copy script to SABnzbd's `scripts` folder
2. Use your prefered shell and navigate to the `scripts` folder with the command `cd` (example `cd /mnt/user/appdata/sabnzdb/scripts`).
3. run: `sudo chmod +x Clean.py`
4. in SABnzbd go to `Settings` => `Switches`
5. Change Pre-queue user script and select: `Clean.py`

!Enable Clean.py

Script 
#!/usr/bin/python3 -OO

##################################################################
### SABnzbd - Clean NZB Renamer                                 ##
##################################################################
##                                                              ##
## Removes the suffixes from NZB name used by bots:             ##
## examples: NZBgeek / Obfuscated / BUYMORE / Scrambled, etc..  ##
##                                                              ##
## NOTE: This script requires Python 3                          ##
##                                                              ##
## Install:                                                     ##
## 1. Copy script to SABnzbd's script folder                    ##
## 2. run: sudo chmod +x Clean.py                               ##
## 3. in SABnzbd go to Config > Switches                        ##
## 4. Change Pre-queue user script and select: Clean.py         ##
##################################################################

import sys
import re

# normalize argv to scriptname and just first 8 arguments to maintain compatibility
sys.argv = sys.argv[:9]
try:
    # Parse the input variables for SABnzbd version >= 4.2.0
    (
        scriptname,
        nzbname,
        postprocflags,
        category,
        script,
        prio,
        downloadsize,
        grouplist,
    ) = sys.argv
except:
    sys.exit(1)  # exit with 1 causes SABnzbd to ignore the output of this script

fwp = nzbname
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-4P$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-4Planet$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-AlternativeToRequested$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-AlteZachen$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-AsRequested$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-AsRequested-xpost$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-BUYMORE$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-Chamele0n$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-GEROV$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-iNC0GNiTO$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-NZBGeek$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-Obfuscated$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-Obfuscation$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-postbot$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-Rakuv[a-z0-9]*$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-RePACKPOST$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-Scrambled$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-WhiteRev$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-WRTEAM$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-CAPTCHA$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-Z0iDS3N$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)\[eztv([ ._-]re)?\]$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)\[TGx\]$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)\[ettv\]$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)\[TGx\]-xpost$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i).mkv-xpost$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)-xpost$", "", fwp)
fwp = re.sub(r"(?i)(-D-Z0N3|\-[^-.\n]*)(\-.{4})?$", r"\1", fwp)

print("1")  # Accept
print(fwp)
print()
print()
print()
print()
print()
# 0 means OK
sys.exit(0)

replace_for

Replaces underscores with dots
  • Title: replace_for.py
  • Author: miker

Replaces underscores with dots in downloaded filename to prevent download loops with poorly named releases on some indexers (often HONE releases).

Install Instructions:

1. Copy script to SABnzbd's script folder
1. run: `sudo chmod +x replace_for.py`
1. in SABnzbd go to `Settings` => `Categories`
1. Change script for required categories and select: `replace_for.py`

!Enable replace_for.py

Script 
#!/usr/bin/python3 -OO

##################################################################
### SABnzbd - Replace underscores with dots                     ##
##################################################################
##                                                              ##
## NOTE: This script requires Python 3                          ##
##                                                              ##
## Author: miker                                                ##
##                                                              ##
## Install:                                                     ##
## 1. Copy script to SABnzbd's script folder                    ##
## 2. run: sudo chmod +x replace_for.py                         ##
## 3. in SABnzbd go to Config > Categories                      ##
## 4. Assign replace_for.py to the required category            ##
##################################################################

import sys
import os
import os.path

try:
    (
        scriptname,
        directory,
        orgnzbname,
        jobname,
        reportnumber,
        category,
        group,
        postprocstatus,
        url,
    ) = sys.argv
except:
    print("No commandline parameters found")
    sys.exit(1)  # exit with 1 causes SABnzbd to ignore the output of this script

files = os.listdir(directory)

for src in files:
    if src.find("_") != -1:
        dst = src.replace("_", ".")
        os.rename(os.path.join(directory, src), os.path.join(directory, dst))
        print(src, "renamed to ", dst)

print()
print()
print()
print()
# 0 means OK
sys.exit(0)