Overseerr Auto Decline

Overseerr is a fantastic application, which allows your friends to request movies and TV series for your Plex Server. However, it lacks a built-in way to automatically deny requests for specific titles.

This application solves that problem! Simply download the container, configure the movies and TV shows you want to block, and let it handle the rest. No more manually rejecting requests—just set it and forget it!

Build

To build the container yourself, simply clone the repository and then build the container with the provided docker file. You can the run it as described in the section below.

docker build . --tag overseerr-auto-decline

Alternatively you can build the binary directly with Go.

go build -o ./overseerr-auto-decline

Run

To run the docker container, you have to give it a couple of environment variables.

docker run -d \
  -e URL=https://your.overseerr.com \
  -e API_KEY=eW91cl9hcGlfa2V5Cg== \
  -e MEDIA=8966,24021 \
  --name overseerr-auto-decline \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  ghcr.io/masterevarior/overseerr-auto-decline:latest

This will decline (but not delete) any request for media with the id 8966 or 24021.

Environment Variables

Name	Description	Example	Mandatory
URL	The URL to your Overseerr instance.	https://your.overseerr.com	✅
API_KEY	Your API-Key to your Overseerr instance.	eW91cl9hcGlfa2V5Cg==	✅
MEDIA	A list of comma separated TMDB or TVDB id. Any movies or series that is included here will be declined and, depending on your settings, deleted.	8966,24021	✅
DELETE_REQUESTS	Wether the requests should not only be declined but also be deleted. If this variable is set, they will also be deleted.	true	❌

Configure Webhook

For this application to work, you will have to configure the webhook inside of Overseerr.

Point the URL to whereever your Docker container is running. Choose Request Pending Approval as notification type. Do not choose any other notification type. Finally add this as your JSON payload:

{
    "request_id": "{{request_id}}",
    "tmdbid": "{{media_tmdbid}}",
    "tvdbid": "{{media_tvdbid}}"
}

Development

Linting

Run all the linters with the treefmt command. Note that the command does not install the required formatters.

treefmt

Git Hooks

There are some hooks for formatting and the like. To use those, execute the following command:

git config --local core.hooksPath .githooks/

Nix

If you are using NixOS or the Nix package manager, there is a dev shell available for your convenience. This will install Go, everything needed for formatting and set some default environment variables. Start it with this command:

nix develop

If you happen to use nix-direnv, this is also supported.

Improvements, issues and more

Pull requests, improvements and issues are always welcome.