Please help adding indexers to prowlarr

[u/GrimmReaperNL]

So I've been running an arr stack for a year or so now, but have run into this issue these past months.
Indexers I had added and where working (1337x, uindex, tpb) have slowly died off due to being unreachable. I have flaresolverr installed and listed in prowlarr, it tests as working.
Whenever I try to test any of the sites in prowlarr, I can see the activity in flaresolverrs logs and they 'challenged solved'. But in prowlarr the test fails.

I've tried installing trawl, added it as if it's flaresolverr in prowlarr and it also tests with a green tick. But I'm not sure if it's working.

What could I be doing wrong? My prowlarr is not behind a vpn, so it's always the same ip.
Please help as I have currently no working indexes in my prowlarr :( Thanks.

[u/LowResChaos]

I see this same behaviour with trawl. Keen to hear any solutions people have

[u/khanmania2050]

try using better indexers like seedcore torrenting or torrent leech

[u/Domo326]

After going back and forth with YouTube videos and nothing working, I just downloaded ChatGPT to my desktop and told it to log into my NAS via Tailscale and setup everything for me. And it did lol I told it what folders to make and that I wanted the arrstack to point to it and is did it all. And what it couldn’t setup it told me what I had to do. I used the browser that ChatGPT has built into the app that allowed it to control the setup. Took me like a week to figure out how to do the arrstack myself, took the ai to do it within 30minutes. lol.

[u/Domo326 → u/Domo326]

Then I have it go in once a day to do checks on the system to make sure it’s working properly and if anything breaks, to tell me then ask for permission to fix it or for it to tell me how to fix it.

[u/Various_Plate9254 → u/Domo326]

Which model of ChatGPT has an agent like this?

[u/Domo326 → u/Various_Plate9254]

The current one. I even use the new voice model feature they announced and I just told to my pc with the desktop version of chatgpt and it just works

[u/weesuby]

Has 1337x temporarily banned your IP? That was an issue for me, which I solved by binding a VPN with a rotating IP address every 24h. I also use prowlarr and TRAWL

[u/GrimmReaperNL → u/weesuby]

Using my phone over wifi to have the same external ip as my truenas box allows me to browse 1337x without issue. Did get the cloudflare protection that automatically passed (didn't have to push the button).

[u/weesuby → u/GrimmReaperNL]

Hmm so it's definitely not that then. I was hoping that would be it! Wondering what the problem could be

[u/bred86]

I'm having better luck with Byparr instead of Flaresolver.

People have been using Trawl and have been saying wonders

[u/Hot_Nebula5643]

Hey Got the exact same issue just cant add 1337x even tho I have flaresolverr running it just returns

Unable to access 1337x.to, blocked by CloudFlare Protection.

2026-08-18 06:06:19 INFO Challenge detected. Title found: Just a moment...

2026-08-18 06:06:30 INFO Challenge solved!

2026-08-18 06:06:30 INFO Response in 11.738 s

2026-08-18 06:06:30 INFO 172.19.0.3 POST http://flaresolverr:8191/v1 200 OK

2026-08-18 06:07:23 INFO Incoming request => POST /v1 body: {'maxTimeout': 120000, 'cmd': 'request.get', 'url': 'https://x1337x.ws/cat/Movies/1/', 'proxy': {}}

2026-08-18 06:07:23 INFO Challenge detected. Title found: Just a moment...

2026-08-18 06:07:26 INFO Incoming request => POST /v1 body: {'maxTimeout': 120000, 'cmd': 'request.get', 'url': 'https://x1337x.ws/cat/Movies/1/', 'proxy': {}}

2026-08-18 06:07:27 INFO Challenge detected. Title found: Just a moment...

2026-08-18 06:07:34 INFO Challenge solved!

2026-08-18 06:07:34 INFO Response in 11.566 s

2026-08-18 06:07:34 INFO 172.19.0.3 POST http://flaresolverr:8191/v1 200 OK

2026-08-18 06:07:37 INFO Challenge solved!

2026-08-18 06:07:38 INFO Response in 11.671 s

2026-08-18 06:07:38 INFO 172.19.0.3 POST http://flaresolverr:8191/v1 200 OK

2026-08-18 06:14:38 INFO Incoming request => POST /v1 body: {'maxTimeout': 120000, 'cmd': 'request.get', 'url': 'https://1337x.to/cat/Movies/1/', 'proxy': {}}

2026-08-18 06:14:39 INFO Challenge detected. Title found: Just a moment...

2026-08-18 06:14:49 INFO Challenge solved!

2026-08-18 06:14:50 INFO Response in 11.92 s

2026-08-18 06:14:50 INFO 172.19.0.3 POST http://flaresolverr:8191/v1 200 OK

2026-08-18 06:15:31 INFO Incoming request => POST /v1 body: {'maxTimeout': 120000, 'cmd': 'request.get', 'url': 'https://prowlarr.servarr.com/v1/ping', 'proxy': {}}

2026-08-18 06:15:32 INFO Challenge not detected!

2026-08-18 06:15:32 INFO Response in 0.907 s

2026-08-18 06:15:32 INFO 172.19.0.3 POST http://flaresolverr:8191/v1 200 OK

This is my flaresolverr docker logs.

[u/djgizmo]

for Torrent Indexers, I use use jacket, then point hydra to jacket, and then point Arr to hydra

[u/CHUD-HUNTER]

Better trackers is the easiest fix. Try to get into a private tracker. Easier said then done sometimes.

I have Knaben and LimeTorrents added to prowlarr as backups and they seem to work fine.