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Use DMM as a Usenet indexer

DMM answers as a Newznab indexer, so Prowlarr, Sonarr and Radarr can search it like any other and grab what they find.

Needs a DMM API key, which comes with a sponsorship. Get it on gatekeeper, then paste it in Settings. Already sponsoring on another machine? Same key.

1. Paste this into Prowlarr / Sonarr / Radarr

Prowlarr: Settings → Indexers → + → Newznab (the generic one). Sonarr and Radarr take the same three values under Settings → Indexers → + → Newznab if you would rather skip Prowlarr.

URL
https://debridmediamanager.com/api/newznab
this DMM instance
API Path
/api
appended to the URL above
API Key
your DMM API key from gatekeeper
paste it in Settings to show it here

2. What you can search for

t=search
Free-text search
q= anything. What Prowlarr uses for a manual search.
t=tvsearch
TV by series id
tvdbid= with optional season= and ep=. Sonarr sends this.
t=movie
Movies by IMDb id
imdbid= as bare digits, no tt prefix. Radarr sends this.

An id search that comes back empty is not proof the release is missing — fall back to a free-text query before blaming the indexer.

3. Categories it advertises

2000Movies2040Movies / HD2045Movies / UHD5000TV5030TV / SD5040TV / HD5045TV / UHD5070TV / Anime

Anything outside these is not served, so leave the rest unticked in Prowlarr — mapping a category DMM does not advertise just produces empty searches.

4. Limits, per key

30 searches
per minute
15 grabs
per minute
250 grabs
per day

They are counted against your DMM API key, not your IP, so several *arr instances behind one key share the same budget. A search storm is the usual way to hit them: cap Prowlarr's RSS sync interval rather than letting a full library search run unthrottled.

5. Where the grabs go

Prowlarr only finds releases; something has to fetch them. Pair this with DMM as a SABnzbd download client, and a grab is pulled off Usenet, rebuilt as a torrent and added to your own Real-Debrid account.

NZBs are cleaned server-side before they leave DMM: no indexer identity and no per-download watermark reaches the client.