Sonarr

Sonarr is an open-source PVR (Personal Video Recorder) application that automates the download, organization, and management of TV series. It integrates with Usenet and torrent indexers, monitors RSS feeds for new episodes, and automatically retrieves them via configured download clients. Sonarr provides a web-based UI, extensive quality and naming profiles, and supports multiple platforms through Docker, Windows, macOS, and Linux installations. The project is community-driven, with frequent updates, a rich plugin ecosystem, and detailed API documentation for developers to build integrations and automation tools.

Sonarr publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, PVR, TV, Usenet, and Torrent.

The Sonarr catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Sonarr’s developer surface includes authentication, API reference, getting-started guide, support, and 15 more developer resources.

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25.3/100 emerging Agent 8/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

2 published contracts

CompanyPVRTVUsenetTorrentAutomation

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 25.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.9 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 8/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 14.7 — up to +21.3 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 40.5 — up to +11.9 composite points

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Sonarr API

Sonarr API (v5) – programmatic interface for Sonarr v5.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Sonarr Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Sonarr Context

120 classes · 371 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Sonarr API Rules

10 rules · 7 errors 2 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Sonarr Openapi Overlay

0 actions · update

UNRECORDED

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

ConnectionResource

39 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GeneralSettingsResource

45 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueueResource

29 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SeriesResource

55 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StatisticsResource

23 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SystemResource

31 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Sonarr Authentication

2 schemes

SECURITY

Sonarr Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Sonarr Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Sonarr Agentic Access

242 operations · 114 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

242 operations · 114 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference

APIReference

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

Conformance

DataModel

Lifecycle

ErrorCatalog

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Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Postman

Postman

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

Roadmap

Roadmap

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: sonarr
name: Sonarr
description: Sonarr is an open-source PVR (Personal Video Recorder) application that automates the download, organization,
  and management of TV series. It integrates with Usenet and torrent indexers, monitors RSS feeds for new episodes, and automatically
  retrieves them via configured download clients. Sonarr provides a web-based UI, extensive quality and naming profiles, and
  supports multiple platforms through Docker, Windows, macOS, and Linux installations. The project is community-driven, with
  frequent updates, a rich plugin ecosystem, and detailed API documentation for developers to build integrations and automation
  tools.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/sonarr/apis.yml
image: https://sonarr.tv/img/logo.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:new-submission
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-28 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-28'
modified: '2026-10-28'
tags:
- Company
- PVR
- TV
- Usenet
- Torrent
- Automation
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/sonarr-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/sonarr-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/sonarr-vocabulary.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/sonarr-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/sonarr-data-model.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/sonarr-authentication.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/sonarr-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/sonarr-problem-types.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/sonarr-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/sonarr-vendors.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.sonarr.tv/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sonarr-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://sonarr.tv/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://sonarr.tv/docs/api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://sonarr.tv/docs/api/#v5/description/introduction
- type: Support
  url: https://forums.sonarr.tv
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Sonarr
- type: Roadmap
  url: https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/milestones
- type: Postman
  url: https://www.postman.com/postman-atlas/workspace/sonarr
apis:
- name: Sonarr API
  description: Sonarr API (v5) – programmatic interface for Sonarr v5.
  humanURL: https://sonarr.tv/docs/api
  aid: sonarr:sonarr-api
x-submission-probe: 200, 2026-10-26
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-28'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 18
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=oss,contract=oss,surfaces=oss,docs=oss,regulatory=oss

Sonarr API — frequently asked questions

Does Sonarr have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Sonarr, including Sonarr API.

How do I authenticate with the Sonarr API?

Sonarr uses bearer-token authentication (2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Sonarr Authentication.

Is the Sonarr API ready for AI agents?

Sonarr has a Kin Score of 25.3 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 7.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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