NOTE: Sick Beard is no longer actively maintained. Old versions may still work, but if you have any issues or are doing a new install I recommend you use Sonarr or one of the many active SickBeard forks.
Sick Beard is a PVR for newsgroup users (with limited torrent support). It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows and when they are posted it downloads them, sorts and renames them, and optionally generates metadata for them. It currently supports several torrent and usenet sites and retrieves show information from theTVDB.com and TVRage.com.
Features include:
- automatically retrieves new episode torrent or nzb files
- can scan your existing library and then download any old seasons or episodes you're missing
- can watch for better versions and upgrade your existing episodes (to from TV DVD/BluRay for example)
- XBMC library updates, poster/fanart downloads, and NFO/TBN generation
- configurable episode renaming
- sends NZBs directly to SABnzbd, prioritizes and categorizes them properly
- available for any platform, uses simple HTTP interface
- can notify XBMC, Growl, or Twitter when new episodes are downloaded
- specials and double episode support
Sick Beard makes use of the following projects:
- cherrypy
- Cheetah
- simplejson
- tvdb_api
- ConfigObj
- SABnzbd+
- jQuery
- Python GNTP
- SocksiPy
- python-dateutil
- jsonrpclib
To run Sick Beard from source you will need Python 2.5+ and Cheetah 2.1.0+. The binary releases are standalone. Build 503 and older can be found on the now defunct legacy releases.
If you find a bug please report it or it'll never get fixed. Verify that it hasn't already been submitted and then log a new bug. Be sure to provide as much information as possible.