Acquisition And Routing
Acquisition is the loop that turns a wanted item into a file: search indexers, score releases, send the winner to a download client, import the result. These terms describe the pieces of that loop and the policy that steers it.
Indexer
Section titled “Indexer”An indexer is a configured provider instance for a Usenet indexer or torrent tracker, created in Settings → Indexers from an installed indexer plugin. It stores the URL, credentials, categories, limits, and enablement.
One indexer list serves every facet. Routing decides which facets may use it. Sites behind Cloudflare can be reached through a FlareSolverr-compatible challenge solver. See Scryer vs. Prowlarr.
Download Client
Section titled “Download Client”A download client is a configured provider instance for SABnzbd, NZBGet, qBittorrent, Transmission, and others, created in Settings → Download Clients. Scryer sends grabs to it and watches it for completed items to import.
Import depends on Scryer seeing the client’s completed path at a stable location. See Library Layout.
Quality Profile
Section titled “Quality Profile”A quality profile lists the qualities a title may have, in preference order, and the cutoff Scryer stops upgrading at. Every title has one, inherited from its library default unless overridden.
The quality tier is the dominant factor in every decision. A release whose quality is not in the profile is rejected regardless of anything else. Ranking between releases of the same quality is the scoring persona’s job.
Scoring Persona
Section titled “Scoring Persona”A scoring persona is a preset of roughly fifty weights covering source, codec, audio, HDR, size, and release-group tier. The four personas are Balanced, Audiophile, Efficient, and Compatible.
Persona is stored on the quality profile, and a facet can override it from its settings. Profile-level scoring overrides adjust a persona for targeted cases. See Quality Profiles.
Rules are custom policy written in Rego. A rule reads a parsed release and adds score entries or blocks it. Rules are defined once in Settings → Rules and apply to the facets they name, or to every facet when none is named.
Rules sit on top of the profile and persona. They exist for preferences the built-in scoring does not express, such as a private tracker’s freeleech flag or a multi-condition anime preference. See Custom Rules.
Delay Profile
Section titled “Delay Profile”A delay profile controls timing: how long to wait after a release appears before grabbing, whether to prefer Usenet or torrent, and minimum age. It applies by facet and tag.
Delay profiles answer “when is this eligible.” Quality profiles answer “is this good enough.” A release held by a delay profile shows as Pending.
Routing
Section titled “Routing”Routing connects acquisition sources to facets. In a facet’s Routing settings you choose which indexers and download clients it may use, and in what order.
Routing lets one shared configuration serve different facets differently: an anime tracker enabled for Anime only, or a separate download client for Movies. Rules and quality profiles are scoped elsewhere, by the rule’s applied facets and by profile assignment.
Interactive Search
Section titled “Interactive Search”An interactive search is one you trigger yourself, from a title, season, episode, or wanted row. Results show every candidate with its score and a scoring log. You can grab any of them, including one Scryer ranked lower.
Background acquisition is the same evaluation run on a schedule and on RSS events for monitored items. Both use identical policy. Interactive search is the fastest way to see why the background loop chose what it chose. Acquisition compares the lanes in detail.