I think you’re referring to FlareSolverr. If so, I’m not aware of a direct replacement.

Main issue is it’s heavy on resources (I have an rpi4b)

FlareSolverr does add some memory overhead, but otherwise it’s fairly lightweight. On my system FlareSolverr has been up for 8 days and is using ~300MB:

NAME           CPU %     MEM USAGE
flaresolverr   0.01%     310.3MiB

Note that any CPU usage introduced by FlareSolverr is unavoidable because that’s how CloudFlare protection works. CloudFlare creates a workload in the client browser that should be trivial if you’re making a single request, but brings your system to a crawl if you’re trying to send many requests, e.g. DDOSing or scraping. You need to execute that browser-based work somewhere to get past those CloudFlare checks.

If hosting the FlareSolverr container on your rpi4b would put it under memory or CPU pressure, you could run the docker container on a different system. When setting up Flaresolverr in Prowlarr you create an indexer proxy with a tag. Any indexer with that tag sends their requests through the proxy instead of sending them directly to the tracker site. When Flaresolverr is running in a local Docker container the address for the proxy is localhost, e.g.:

If you run Flaresolverr’s Docker container on another system that’s accessible to your rpi4b, you could create an indexer proxy whose Host is “http://<other_system_IP>:8191”. Keep security in mind when doing this, if you’ve got a VPN connection on your rpi4b with split tunneling enabled (i.e. connections to local network resources are allowed when the tunnel is up) then this setup would allow requests to these indexers to escape the VPN tunnel.

On a side note, I’d strongly recommend trying out a Docker-based setup. Aside from Flaresolverr, I ran my servarr setup without containers for years and that was fine, but moving over to Docker made the configuration a lot easier. Before Docker I had a complex set of firewall rules to allow traffic to my local network and my VPN server, but drop any other traffic that wasn’t using the VPN tunnel. All the firewall complexity has now been replaced with a gluetun container, which is much easier to manage and probably more secure. You don’t have to switch to Docker-based all in go, you can run hybrid if need be.

If you really don’t want to use Docker then you could attempt to install from source on the rpi4b. Be advised that you’re absolutely going offroad if you do this as it’s not officially supported by the FlareSolverr devs. It requires install an ARM-based Chromium browser, then setting some environment variables so that FlareSolverr uses that browser instead of trying to download its own. Exact steps are documented in this GitHub comment. I haven’t tested these steps, so YMMV. Honestly, I think this is a bad idea because the full browser will almost certainly require more memory. The browser included in the FlareSolverr container is stripped down to the bare minimum required to pass the CloudFlare checks.

If you’re just strongly opposed to Docker for whatever reason then I think your best bet would be to combine the two approaches above. Host the FlareSolverr proxy on an x86-based system so you can install from source using the officially supported steps.

I use a TOR proxy, it requires a little more knowledge.

Have a docker container running TOR as SOCKS/HTTP proxy.

NAME       CPU %     MEM USAGE
torproxy   0.07%     46.78MiB

Added SOCKS proxy to Prowlarr. Added a tag to this proxy.

Create/modify indexer with TOR/Onion domain, with proxy tag.

I have that for 1337x and BTdig.

Instead of connecting to 1337x.to wich requires CloudFlare, it connects to l337xdarkkaqfwzntnfk5bmoaroivtl6xsbatabvlb52umg6v3ch44yd.onion via TOR proxy.

Also i can use that TOR proxy for other containers/software.

HOW TO:

1. Use a TOR proxy docker container.

• https://github.com/PeterDaveHello/tor-socks-proxy
• https://github.com/shahradelahi/docker-torproxy

2. Add TOR proxy to Prowlarr (Settings -> Indexers), with a tag (ex: TOR)
3. Create a new Prowlarr indexer

• Copy indexer from prowlarr/Definitions to prowlarr/Definitions/Custom (ex: 1337x.yml)
• Change the indexer URL and ID/Name

id: 1337x-TOR
name: 1337x-TOR
...
links:
    - http://l337xdarkkaqfwzntnfk5bmoaroivtl6xsbatabvlb52umg6v3ch44yd.onion/
...

4. Restart Prowlarr
5. Add indexer (1337x-TOR) with Base URL .onion URL and with tag from TOR proxy (ex: TOR).

Other onion torrent sites:

• TorrentGalaxy: http://galaxy3yrfbwlwo72q3v2wlyjinqr2vejgpkxb22ll5pcpuaxlnqjiid.onion/
• btdig: http://btdigggink2pdqzqrik3blmqemsbntpzwxottujilcdjfz56jumzfsyd.onion/

I use flaresolverr. Seems to work okay for me, I’ve had no issues getting stuff.

https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr

You could also try Usenet.

For me 1337x is not even loading. I see nothing, it just times out.

It does work if I connect to Cloudflare’s Warp.

Alternative: flaresolverr

https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr

Edit: Regarding your question to reduce issues:

1. I had it on a Pi, and it didnt tac it very much (BUT I used flaresolverr!)
2. Limit the request times of your trackers?