Autobrr

Part of the arr-mcps collection. MCP server exposing autobrr's API as tools, so an LLM can read and manage a full autobrr instance: filters, indexers, IRC networks, RSS/Torznab feeds, download clients, actions, release queue and stats, import lists, notifications, API keys, proxies, and system config.

Built with FastMCP. autobrr's API has no OpenAPI spec, so the endpoint table is hand-maintained against autobrr's internal/http handlers (see AGENTS.md).

Creating an API key

Create a key in autobrr Settings > API Keys. The token is shown once at creation; the server sends it as the X-API-Token header on every request.

Install

Download a wheel from the latest release and install it as a uv tool (no repo checkout needed):

uv tool install autobrr_mcp-*.whl

This puts an autobrr-mcp command on your PATH. Register it with Claude Code:

claude mcp add autobrr \
  --env AUTOBRR_URL=https://autobrr.example.com \
  --env AUTOBRR_API_KEY=<key> \
  -- autobrr-mcp

From source

uv sync
cp .env.example .env   # fill in AUTOBRR_URL and AUTOBRR_API_KEY

claude mcp add autobrr \
  --env AUTOBRR_URL=https://autobrr.example.com \
  --env AUTOBRR_API_KEY=<key> \
  -- uv run --directory /path/to/autobrr-mcp autobrr-mcp

Config

Env var	Required	Default
AUTOBRR_URL	yes	-
AUTOBRR_API_KEY	yes*	none (no auth header sent if unset)

* Every autobrr API endpoint requires a token; set it or every call returns 401. The server still starts without one so errors surface from the API rather than at startup. If your autobrr instance is served under a base URL (e.g. https://host/autobrr/), include that subpath in AUTOBRR_URL.

Tools

Thirteen resource-scoped tools. Each takes an operation (one of the listed endpoints) plus an arguments dict matching that operation's parameters, and dispatches to the underlying endpoint. This is the fleet's portmanteau pattern: ~104 autobrr endpoints wrapped as 13 tools so every session's system prompt stays small.

Tool	Operations (endpoints)
autobrr_filters	list, create, get, update, update_partial, delete, duplicate, toggle_enabled, get/update notifications (/api/filters, /api/filters/{id}/...)
autobrr_indexers	list, list_schemas, list_options, create, get, update, delete, test_api, toggle_enabled (/api/indexer)
autobrr_irc	list/create/get/update/delete networks, create channel, send_cmd, restart, message history, process announce (/api/irc)
autobrr_feeds	list, create, get, update, delete, delete_cache, test, fetch_caps, get_latest, force_run, toggle_enabled (/api/feeds)
autobrr_download_clients	list, create, update, test, get, delete, get_arr_tags (/api/download_clients)
autobrr_actions	list, create, update, delete, toggle_enabled (/api/actions)
autobrr_lists	list, create, update, delete, refresh_all, refresh_one (/api/lists)
autobrr_notifications	list, create, get, update, delete, test, get_pushover_sounds (/api/notification)
autobrr_api_keys	list, create, delete (/api/keys)
autobrr_proxy	list, create, get, update, delete, test (/api/proxy)
autobrr_release	list, recent, get, stats (+activity/volume/heatmap/top indexers/top filters), indexer options, delete, retry action, duplicate profiles, cleanup jobs CRUD/toggle/run (/api/release)
autobrr_config	get, update (/api/config)
autobrr_system	healthz liveness/readiness, log files, latest update, check updates (read-only)

Excluded on purpose: /api/auth (session/OIDC, not usable over an API token), /api/events (SSE stream), the inbound /api/webhook list-trigger routes, and /api/logs/files/{file} (raw log download).

Development

make help  # list all commands

Command	Does
make sync	uv sync
make test	Offline tests - one per endpoint, mocked HTTP
make test-integration	Tests against the live instance (needs AUTOBRR_URL/AUTOBRR_API_KEY; write tests need AUTOBRR_WRITE_TESTS=1)
make build	Build wheel + sdist into dist/
make bump-patch / bump-minor / bump-major	Bump the version in pyproject.toml + uv.lock
make clean	Remove build artifacts

The release workflow (.github/workflows/release.yml) builds and publishes to Releases whenever a v* tag is pushed - so the usual flow is make bump-patch, commit, then tag and push.