# Pastearr (formerly Watcharr) > Pastearr turns a public IMDb watchlist or list into lists your Radarr and Sonarr pick up within minutes. A LunarWerx product. Pastearr is for people who already track movies and TV shows in a public IMDb watchlist or list and want Radarr and Sonarr to pick up the same titles. Paste the IMDb URL once and get back two links: one for Radarr with the movies and one for Sonarr with the shows. Each app adds its link as a list of its own kind (a Radarr list in Radarr, a Sonarr list in Sonarr), which it checks every 15 and every 5 minutes; the same links also work as an RSS List and a Custom List. Both links are derived from the IMDb list itself, so the same list always produces the same two links, and pasting it again never changes them. ## Key facts - Anyone can build the two links without an account. They come back at once, start serving the list as soon as its first read from IMDb lands (usually within a few minutes), and keep working off that snapshot. - Signing in with Connections is what puts a feed on the refresh schedule, checking it again about every fifteen minutes. - Radarr setup: Settings, Lists, Add List, Radarr; paste the Radarr URL as the Full URL and type anything as the API Key. Radarr checks it every 15 minutes. - Sonarr setup: Settings, Import Lists, Add List, Sonarr; paste the Sonarr URL as the Full URL and type anything as the API Key. Sonarr checks it every 5 minutes. - On a computer, the result's Add to Radarr / Sonarr bookmark does either setup in one click, run inside the user's own Radarr or Sonarr. - Sonarr needs a TVDB id for every show; a show Pastearr cannot resolve to a TVDB id is left out of the Sonarr list, and the app reports how many were skipped. - If a scheduled sync fails, the routes keep serving the last good snapshot instead of breaking. - A brand-new list is not instant: the site cannot fetch IMDb itself, so a freshly pasted URL queues the list and the routes answer 503 until the next sync fills it in, usually within a few minutes. The page updates by itself when it lands. - Only public lists can be read. A private watchlist or list gets a message saying to make it public on IMDb and paste it again. - Links from www.imdb.com, the phone site m.imdb.com, and IMDb's language paths (imdb.com/de/list/...) all work. - The source code is private; the hosted service at pastearr.lunarwerx.com is the way to use it. The public GitHub repository (github.com/LunarWerxs/Pastearr) holds the README, licence, issues and the sync workflow, no code. Commercial use is not licensed, and no commercial license is sold. - Free to use, and deliberately personal and non-commercial: IMDb attaches a usage disclaimer to every API response forbidding public and commercial use of the data, so this feeds one household rather than a business. ## Common questions ### Do I need an account to use Pastearr? No. Anyone can paste a public IMDb list URL and get both links back straight away; they serve the list from its first read from IMDb, which usually lands within a few minutes. Signing in with Connections is what puts a feed on the refresh schedule, so it is re-checked roughly every fifteen minutes instead of staying on its first snapshot. ### How do I add the list to Radarr? In Radarr, open Settings, then Lists, then Add List, choose Radarr, paste the Radarr URL that Pastearr gave you as the Full URL, and type anything as the API Key (the list is public). Radarr then checks it every 15 minutes. The link is derived from the IMDb list itself, so it never changes and does not need replacing later. It also works as an RSS List, which Radarr reads only every 12 hours. ### How do I add the list to Sonarr? In Sonarr, open Settings, then Import Lists, then Add List, choose Sonarr, paste the Sonarr URL as the Full URL, and type anything as the API Key. Sonarr then checks it every 5 minutes. It is a separate link from the Radarr one because the movies and the shows are split between the two applications. It also works as a Custom List, which Sonarr reads only every 6 hours. ### Why is a show missing from my Sonarr list? Sonarr needs a TVDB id for every show, and not every IMDb title resolves to one. Any show Pastearr cannot match is left out of the Sonarr list rather than passed along broken, and the app tells you how many titles were skipped. ### Does Pastearr cost anything? No. It is free, there is no paid tier and no payment of any kind is wired up. It is also deliberately personal and non-commercial: IMDb attaches a usage disclaimer to every API response forbidding public and commercial use of the data, so this is a household tool rather than a product. ### Why does a list I just pasted return an error? A brand-new list is not instant. The site cannot fetch IMDb directly, so a freshly pasted URL is queued and the two routes answer with a 503 until the next sync fills the list in, usually within a few minutes. Once it has synced, the links keep serving the last good snapshot even if a later sync fails. If it never fills in, the list is probably private on IMDb: make it public and paste it again. ## Links - Home: https://pastearr.lunarwerx.com/ - Source code: https://github.com/LunarWerxs/Pastearr - Studio: https://lunarwerx.com - Askarr, the same studio's app for requesting single movies and shows into your own Radarr and Sonarr from anywhere: https://askarr.com