nefarious
nefarious is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Media Management category, licensed GPL-3.0 and written mainly in Python. It ships a Docker image. It has 1,300 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 1,300
- Forks
- 84
- Open issues
- 21
- Commits, last 12 months
- 28
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- No releases
- Created
- Nov 17, 2018
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 28 commits in 12 months.
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 28 |
| Latest release | No GitHub releases |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Releases, all time | 0 |
| Open issues | 21 |
| Open pull requests | 6 |
| Good first issues | 1 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Nov 17, 2018 |
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About nefarious
Automate downloading Movies and TV Shows.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/lardbit/nefarious.
Topics
- transmission
- jackett
- django
- angular
- tmdb
- torrent
- python
- docker
- torrent-downloader
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Is nefarious free and open source?
Yes. nefarious is open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run nefarious with Docker?
Yes. nefarious provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to nefarious?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to nefarious include Sonarr, MeTube and Radarr.
Is nefarious actively maintained?
The most recent commit to nefarious was on Oct 25, 2026 with 28 commits in the past twelve months. It had 21 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.