What is Mediary Scout?

Mediary Scout (巡影) is an agent-driven media library that automates finding and storing movies, shows, and anime into your personal cloud drives. You specify a title and the agent searches multiple sources, selects the best quality match with Chinese subtitles, transfers it directly to your cloud drive (Quark, 115, GuangYaPan, 123, or Tianyi) without using local disk space, verifies the transfer completed successfully, and continuously monitors for missing episodes to fill gaps automatically. It runs as a desktop app on macOS/Windows or via Docker Compose on NAS/servers with PostgreSQL and a bundled PanSou search backend. The desktop version is single-user while Docker supports multi-user isolation. Remote access is available via Tailscale or Cloudflare Tunnel. An optional paid service (Mediary Connect) provides managed tunnels. The software is free and open-source (0BSD); users provide their own cloud drive credentials and OpenAI-compatible AI model endpoint.

Should you self-host Mediary Scout?

Mediary Scout scores 59/100 on selfhost.directory (how scoring works) and ranks #28 of 142 in Media Management. It has 1 592 GitHub stars.

It shipped 10 stable releases in the past year. The latest, v2026.10.22, came out on 22 October 2026. New versions land roughly every 5 days.

Setup is moderate: expect some configuration beyond a single command. It is 0BSD-licensed and written mostly in Typescript.

Its closest alternative on selfhost.directory is Sonarr (81/100, 17 472 stars). It scores higher overall, so compare the two before you pick. See Mediary Scout vs Sonarr side by side.

Features

Agent-driven media acquisition
Automated quality selection
Desktop applications
Direct cloud-to-cloud transfer
Docker Compose Deployment
Multi-cloud drive support
Multi-user isolationDesktop app is single-user only
One-click updates
OpenAI-compatible LLM integration
Prowlarr integrationOptional
Remote access via Cloudflare Tunnel
Remote access via Tailscale
Season-level tracking
TMDB metadata
Transfer verification

FAQ

Windows 提示「已保护你的电脑」？

This is due to the unsigned installer (personal developer certificates are expensive). Click "More info → Run anyway". Every release is verified by CI on real machines before publishing.

支持哪些网盘？

Supports Quark, 115, GuangYaPan, 123, and Tianyi. The drive layer uses a plugin interface and welcomes PRs for new brands.

要花钱吗？

The software is free and open-source. You need your own cloud drive account and an AI service key (any OpenAI-compatible endpoint).

账号密码存在哪？

On your own computer (desktop version) or your own server. The author cannot access them.

它会乱动我的网盘吗？

No, it only performs transfers and organization that you could manually do in your own cloud drive. Every step is visible and credentials stay only in your own instance.