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Jellyseerr Docker Compose (Requests for Radarr + Sonarr)

A ready-to-run docker-compose service for Jellyseerr — the streaming-style request page that hands approved titles straight to Radarr and Sonarr.

Distrosubuntu, debian
Shellyaml
Updated
Compose file
yaml
# docker-compose service for Jellyseerr — the request/discovery front end
# for the arr stack. It only orchestrates Radarr/Sonarr; it downloads
# nothing itself. Add this beside your existing arr services.
services:
  jellyseerr:
    image: fallenbagel/jellyseerr:latest
    container_name: jellyseerr
    environment:
      - TZ=America/New_York  # your timezone
      - PORT=5055
    ports:
      - "5055:5055"
    volumes:
      - /opt/jellyseerr:/app/config
    restart: unless-stopped

What this does

Runs Jellyseerr, the request-and-discovery front end for the Arr stack. Household members browse a streaming-style catalogue, tap Request, and on approval Jellyseerr hands the title to Radarr or Sonarr, which do the actual searching and downloading. Jellyseerr never downloads anything itself. The full walkthrough — media-server sign-in, service wiring, approvals, and quotas — is in Jellyseerr: Let Your Family Request Movies Themselves.

What this stack is for
Everything in this guide automates managing and streaming media you have the rights to — your own rips, DRM-free purchases, home video, Linux ISOs, and public-domain or Creative Commons releases. Downloading copyrighted material you haven't paid for is illegal in most places, and it isn't what this guide teaches. What you point these tools at is on you.

Prerequisites

Deploy

Add the service above to your existing media docker-compose.yml, then:

bash

docker compose up -d jellyseerr
docker compose logs -f jellyseerr

Open http://<host-ip>:5055 for the setup wizard: sign in with Plex or Jellyfin, import your libraries, then under Settings → Services add Radarr and Sonarr with the same root folder and quality profile you’d use adding a title by hand.

Notes

  • Make these values your own before running: TZ (your timezone), /opt/jellyseerr (host config path), <host-ip> (the LAN IP of the machine running the stack), and the Radarr/Sonarr API keys you enter in the wizard (keep them in your secret store, never in a note). If a value looks specific to one machine, it’s a placeholder to change — not a literal to copy.
  • Match the root folder and quality profile exactly. The most common failure is a request that’s “approved” but never downloads — Jellyseerr added it with a root folder or profile your indexers can’t satisfy. Use the same values that work for manual adds.
  • Put it behind a reverse proxy. This is the one service non-technical people will use; a clean HTTPS name via Traefik beats a host:5055 URL.
  • Approvals are per user or role. Auto-approve trusted adults, leave kids on manual, and set request quotas so one person can’t queue hundreds of titles overnight.
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