SABnzbd Setup

Plex2Jellyfin watches the directories SABnzbd finishes downloads into, so the SABnzbd side is mostly about putting completed jobs in the right place with a usable filename.

Categories and folders

Give TV and movies their own categories with separate completed folders, and point [watch] at those folders:

[watch]
tv     = ["/downloads/complete/tv"]
movies = ["/downloads/complete/movies"]

Leave SABnzbd's own sorting/renaming off — the daemon does the renaming, and double-renaming is how files get lost.

Obfuscated releases: the bundled deobfuscation script

Some releases arrive with intentionally garbage filenames (a8f3c09b1d…mkv). SABnzbd's built-in deobfuscation catches most of it; the bundled post-processing script covers a common leftover: jobs whose name carries a clean SxxEyy marker while the video file inside is still hex noise. It only performs low-risk renames — PAR2 hash-confirmed names, or a single video file when the job name has an explicit episode marker — so it will never guess.

Install (scripts/sabnzbd/plex2jellyfin_deobfuscate.py):

cp scripts/sabnzbd/plex2jellyfin_deobfuscate.py /path/to/sabnzbd/scripts/
chmod +x /path/to/sabnzbd/scripts/plex2jellyfin_deobfuscate.py

Then in SABnzbd: Config → Categories → set Script to plex2jellyfin_deobfuscate.py for your TV categories (it exits cleanly on non-TV categories: tv, series, shows, sonarr are recognized).

The script runs after SABnzbd's own post-processing and before the daemon picks the file up, so by the time plex2jellyfin parses it there's a real episode marker to work with.