This script automates Radarr quality profile management by ensuring movies from the current year are assigned to a dedicated profile while reverting previous year’s titles back to a default profile.

RadarrProfileAutoUpdater.sh

#!/bin/bash

RADARR_URL="http://192.168.1.1:7878"
API_KEY="234234234234234234234234234234234234234"
CURRENT_YEAR_PROFILE_ID=9
DEFAULT_PROFILE_ID=2

DRY_RUN=0  # 1 = dry run, 0 = live

THIS_YEAR=$(date +"%Y")
PREV_YEAR=$((THIS_YEAR - 1))

echo "--------------------------------------------"
echo "Radarr Quality Profile Updater"
echo "Efficiently processing only needed movies"
echo "--------------------------------------------"

# Efficiently select only movies needing a change:
# - Current year movies NOT set to CURRENT_YEAR_PROFILE_ID
# - Previous year movies still set to CURRENT_YEAR_PROFILE_ID

MOVIES=$(curl -s -H "X-Api-Key: $API_KEY" "$RADARR_URL/api/v3/movie" | \
    jq --arg thisyear "$THIS_YEAR" \
       --arg prevyear "$PREV_YEAR" \
       --argjson curprof "$CURRENT_YEAR_PROFILE_ID" \
       '[.[] |
          select(
            (.year == ($thisyear|tonumber) and .qualityProfileId != $curprof) or
            (.year == ($prevyear|tonumber) and .qualityProfileId == $curprof)
          )
       ]'
)

TOTAL=$(echo "$MOVIES" | jq 'length')
echo "Found $TOTAL movies that need a quality profile update..."

if [[ "$TOTAL" -eq 0 ]]; then
    echo "No movies need updating. Exiting."
    exit 0
fi

COUNT=0
CHANGED=0
REVERTED=0

progress_bar() {
    local PROGRESS=$1
    local TOTAL=$2
    local WIDTH=40
    local FILLED=$((PROGRESS * WIDTH / TOTAL))
    local EMPTY=$((WIDTH - FILLED))
    printf "\r["
    printf "%0.s#" $(seq 1 $FILLED)
    printf "%0.s-" $(seq 1 $EMPTY)
    printf "] %d/%d" "$PROGRESS" "$TOTAL"
}

echo ""
echo "Processing movies..."
echo ""

# Use a temp file to store movie lines for safe counting and reading
TMP_FILE=$(mktemp)
echo "$MOVIES" | jq -c '.[]' > "$TMP_FILE"

while read -r MOVIE; do
    COUNT=$((COUNT + 1))
    MOVIE_ID=$(echo "$MOVIE" | jq '.id')
    MOVIE_TITLE=$(echo "$MOVIE" | jq -r '.title')
    MOVIE_YEAR=$(echo "$MOVIE" | jq '.year')
    PROFILE_ID=$(echo "$MOVIE" | jq '.qualityProfileId')

    # Show progress bar
    progress_bar $COUNT $TOTAL

    # Current year logic: set to CURRENT_YEAR_PROFILE_ID if not already
    if [[ "$MOVIE_YEAR" -eq "$THIS_YEAR" && "$PROFILE_ID" -ne "$CURRENT_YEAR_PROFILE_ID" ]]; then
        if [[ "$DRY_RUN" -eq 0 ]]; then
            FULL_MOVIE=$(curl -s -H "X-Api-Key: $API_KEY" "$RADARR_URL/api/v3/movie/$MOVIE_ID")
            UPDATED_MOVIE=$(echo "$FULL_MOVIE" | jq --argjson pid "$CURRENT_YEAR_PROFILE_ID" '.qualityProfileId = $pid')
            curl -s -X PUT -H "X-Api-Key: $API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
                -d "$UPDATED_MOVIE" "$RADARR_URL/api/v3/movie/$MOVIE_ID" >/dev/null
        fi
        CHANGED=$((CHANGED + 1))
    fi

    # Previous year logic: revert to DEFAULT_PROFILE_ID if still set to CURRENT_YEAR_PROFILE_ID
    if [[ "$MOVIE_YEAR" -eq "$PREV_YEAR" && "$PROFILE_ID" -eq "$CURRENT_YEAR_PROFILE_ID" ]]; then
        if [[ "$DRY_RUN" -eq 0 ]]; then
            FULL_MOVIE=$(curl -s -H "X-Api-Key: $API_KEY" "$RADARR_URL/api/v3/movie/$MOVIE_ID")
            UPDATED_MOVIE=$(echo "$FULL_MOVIE" | jq --argjson pid "$DEFAULT_PROFILE_ID" '.qualityProfileId = $pid')
            curl -s -X PUT -H "X-Api-Key: $API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
                -d "$UPDATED_MOVIE" "$RADARR_URL/api/v3/movie/$MOVIE_ID" >/dev/null
        fi
        REVERTED=$((REVERTED + 1))
    fi

done < "$TMP_FILE"

# Move to new line after progress bar
echo ""

echo "--------------------------------------------"
echo "Radarr Quality Profile Updater complete!"
echo "Movies updated to current year profile: $CHANGED"
echo "Movies reverted to default profile: $REVERTED"
echo "Dry-run mode: $DRY_RUN"
echo "--------------------------------------------"

rm "$TMP_FILE"