SABnzbd API

Manage Usenet downloads via SABnzbd's REST API.

Setup

Config: ~/.clawdbot/credentials/sabnzbd/config.json

{
  "url": "http://localhost:8080",
  "apiKey": "your-api-key-from-config-general"
}

Get your API key from SABnzbd Config → General → Security.

Quick Reference

Queue Status

# Full queue
./scripts/sab-api.sh queue

# With filters
./scripts/sab-api.sh queue --limit 10 --category tv

# Specific job
./scripts/sab-api.sh queue --nzo-id SABnzbd_nzo_xxxxx

Add NZB

# By URL (indexer link)
./scripts/sab-api.sh add "https://indexer.com/get.php?guid=..."

# With options
./scripts/sab-api.sh add "URL" --name "My Download" --category movies --priority high

# By local file
./scripts/sab-api.sh add-file /path/to/file.nzb --category tv

Priority: force, high, normal, low, paused, duplicate

Control Queue

./scripts/sab-api.sh pause              # Pause all
./scripts/sab-api.sh resume             # Resume all
./scripts/sab-api.sh pause-job <nzo_id>
./scripts/sab-api.sh resume-job <nzo_id>
./scripts/sab-api.sh delete <nzo_id>    # Keep files
./scripts/sab-api.sh delete <nzo_id> --files  # Delete files too
./scripts/sab-api.sh purge              # Clear queue

Speed Control

./scripts/sab-api.sh speedlimit 50      # 50% of max
./scripts/sab-api.sh speedlimit 5M      # 5 MB/s
./scripts/sab-api.sh speedlimit 0       # Unlimited

History

./scripts/sab-api.sh history
./scripts/sab-api.sh history --limit 20 --failed
./scripts/sab-api.sh retry <nzo_id>     # Retry failed
./scripts/sab-api.sh retry-all          # Retry all failed
./scripts/sab-api.sh delete-history <nzo_id>

Categories & Scripts

./scripts/sab-api.sh categories
./scripts/sab-api.sh scripts
./scripts/sab-api.sh change-category <nzo_id> movies
./scripts/sab-api.sh change-script <nzo_id> notify.py

Status & Info

./scripts/sab-api.sh status             # Full status
./scripts/sab-api.sh version
./scripts/sab-api.sh warnings
./scripts/sab-api.sh server-stats       # Download stats

Response Format

Queue slot includes:

• nzo_id, filename, status
• mb, mbleft, percentage
• timeleft, priority, cat
• script, labels

Status values: Downloading, Queued, Paused, Propagating, Fetching

History status: Completed, Failed, Queued, Verifying, Repairing, Extracting