Cannot send from indexer to SABnzbd

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roybridge
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Cannot send from indexer to SABnzbd

Post by roybridge »

Hi,

I've been using SABnzbd for as long as I can remember - 13 years at least, but over the past few months, my indexer's "Send to SAB" function hasn't worked.

The only way at the moment that I can download, is by adding items to my indexers cart, then having SABnzbd poll the RSS feed regularly.

The thing is, from the outside world, I can successfully browse to http://<my address>:8080/sabnzbd and get the login page, so port forwarding on my router seems to be working ok.

I'd be grateful for additional sugestions on troubleshooting.

Thank you
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sander
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Re: Cannot send from indexer to SABnzbd

Post by sander »

> The only way at the moment that I can download, is by adding items to my indexers cart, then having SABnzbd poll the RSS feed regularly.

Yes, the easier and safer way. So why don't you want that?

> I can successfully browse to http://<my address>:8080/sabnzbd

So ... what do see in your GUI? Do you see the indexer trying to access you? If not: anything in sabnzbd.log (set to +DEBUG)?


For example:

GUI

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API key incorrect, Use the API key from Config->General in your 3rd party program: ::ffff:1.25.45.236 [curl/8.14.1]
sabnzbd.log, set to +DEBUG:

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2026-02-27 19:39:15,758::DEBUG::[interface:144] Request GET /api from ::ffff:1.75.45.236 [curl/8.14.1] {'output': 'json', 'apikey': 'blablabla'}
2026-02-27 19:39:15,759::WARNING::[interface:414] API key incorrect, Use the API key from Config->General in your 3rd party program: ::ffff:1.75.45.236 [curl/8.14.1]
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