RapidBay

Rapid bay is a self hosted video service/torrent client that makes playing videos from torrents as easy as:

1. Opening the webapp on a phone/laptop/tablet/smartTV.
2. Searching for content.
3. Selecting desired video file.
4. Waiting for Download/Conversion.
5. Playing on the device or cast to AppleTV/Chromecast

Features:

• Uses Jackett as a search backend.
• Pick individual video files you want to play and the system takes care of the rest to make it streamable.
• Automatic download of Closed Captions/Subtitles
• Automatically converts the video file and subtitles to be playable on all browsers/chromecast/appletv
• Automatically converts audio that is unsupported by browsers to AAC
• Allows registering as a handler for any magnet link
• Automatically cleans up disk space so you don't need to manage it yourself
• Kodi support

Demo:

Setting up Jackett as a search backend:

Rapidbay requires the torrent indexer Jackett for searching. Have a look here on how to set it up using Docker.

There's also a docker-compose example file to show how you can connect rapidbay and jackett together.

Running:

With Docker (recommended)

docker run -p 5000:5000 -e JACKETT_HOST="http://your.jacket.host" -e JACKETT_API_KEY="YourAPIKey" hauxir/rapidbay

Without Docker

System dependencies:

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install python3 python3-venv ffmpeg mediainfo nginx

# macOS
brew install python ffmpeg mediainfo nginx

Optional: Install alass for subtitle synchronization.

Install Python dependencies:

# Using uv (recommended)
uv sync

# Or using pip
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install .

Run the app:

# Set environment variables
export JACKETT_HOST="http://your.jacket.host"
export JACKETT_API_KEY="YourAPIKey"

# Run directly (without nginx)
cd app
uvicorn app:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 5000 --workers 1 --timeout-keep-alive 900

App will be running at http://localhost:5000

Subtitles

You'll need a VIP account at OpenSubtitles.org for it to work:

-e OPENSUBTITLES_USERNAME=someusername -e OPENSUBTITLES_PASSWORD=yourpassword

Configuring which subtitles to download:

The default setting downloads english subtitles.

Add the env variable SUBTITLE_LANGUAGES to your docker params like so to get more languages:

-e SUBTITLE_LANGUAGES="['en', 'de', 'es']"

Require a password:

Add the env variable PASSWORD to your docker params like so to prompt for a password when opening rapidbay:

-e PASSWORD=YOURPASSWORD

Registering as a handler for any magnet link:

• Go to https://<RAPIDBAY_HOST>/registerHandler and it should prompt you to register your running RapidBay instance as a default handler for torrent links on any torrent site!
• You can also copy/paste a magnet link directly into the search bar to open magnet links manually.

Developing

Requires Docker + docker-compose

docker-compose up

Running RapidBay on a VPS

Setting RapidBay up on a VPS and tunnel torrent traffic through NordVPN

Using Kodi as a frontend

Setting up Rapidbay with Kodi

Using Real Debrid caching

• You can speed up downloads by using the torrent cache at real debrid
• To do that set the env variable RD_TOKEN to the one on https://real-debrid.com/apitoken