Indexers Reference

Complete reference of the indexer types Mydia supports.

Type	Description	Recommended
Prowlarr	Indexer manager with unified API	Yes
Jackett	Indexer proxy	Yes
NZBHydra2	NZB meta search aggregator	Yes
Cardigann	Built-in indexer support	Experimental

Configuration Fields

These fields appear when adding or editing an indexer on Admin > Configuration, under the Indexers tab.

Option	Description	Example
Name	Display name	Prowlarr
Type	Indexer type	prowlarr
Base URL	Indexer URL	http://prowlarr:9696
API Key	Authentication key	abc123
Enabled	Enable or disable this indexer	true
Priority	Orders the indexer list for display and nothing else, see below	1
Indexer IDs	Which Prowlarr indexers to query, picked from a checklist after the connection succeeds	1,2,3
Min post age (minutes)	Usenet only. Drops NZB results posted more recently than this, giving articles time to propagate. Blank disables it.	30

Priority does not affect searching

Priority is not a search priority. Searches fan out to every enabled indexer concurrently, the results are merged into one pool, and ranking is done by the quality profile rather than by which indexer answered. The field only sorts the indexer list in the admin UI. See The Media Pipeline for the full picture, including how download client priority differs.

Fields with no form input

Two stored fields are used at search time but have no control in the admin form. Set them with environment variables:

Field	Environment variable	Effect
Categories	INDEXER_<N>_CATEGORIES	Default category IDs to search within, for Prowlarr and NZBHydra2
Rate Limit	INDEXER_<N>_RATE_LIMIT	Maximum requests per minute for this indexer. Unset means no limit.

Rate Limit is per minute, not per second

Mydia counts requests in a sliding one-minute window. 5 means five requests a minute. Reading it as five per second would let Mydia issue sixty times the traffic you intended, which is how indexer bans happen.