# Comet

Comet is a self-hosted streaming service that finds and serves movies and TV shows from torrents and debrid providers through a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) network. It is open source and self-hosted, installable on Docker Hub and Unraid.

Canonical page: https://ourlocalhost.com/app/1048/comet

## Description

Comet is a self-hosted streaming service that finds and serves movies and TV shows from torrents and debrid providers through a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) network. It offers an official Kodi add-on, Torznab search for Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, and Jackett, debrid stream proxying that lets one subscription be used from multiple IP addresses, and an administration dashboard with bandwidth limits. Self-hosters use it as a single media fetching and streaming tool, with SQLite or PostgreSQL storage and Prometheus and Grafana monitoring.

## Platform availability

Available on 1 of 9 platforms: Unraid.

## Health score

64/100 (Good), based on 3 of 4 factors.
- Maintained: 80 (last commit 87 days ago)
- Popular: 61 (1,113 GitHub stars)
- Easy to install: 35 (1 install platform, install notes, Docker image)

## Links

- Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/g0ldyy/comet
- GitHub: https://github.com/g0ldyy/comet
- Unraid: https://ca.unraid.net/apps/comet-00ivm5x09tjl21?q=Comet

## Common questions

### How do I run Comet from source?

Clone the repository, install the uv tool, run uv sync, then start it with uv run python -m comet.main.

### Can Comet use PostgreSQL instead of SQLite?

Yes. The README says the caching system supports SQLite or PostgreSQL backends.

### Does CometNet share actual torrent files?

No. CometNet shares discovered metadata such as hashes and titles between instances in a decentralized way.

### Do the example nginx reverse-proxy settings work as documented?

One self-hosting report says they can fail even after changing the example domain to a unique .com domain and trying certbot.

## Alternatives

- Cineverse: Cineverse is a free ad-supported streaming service that offers limitless access to the best movies and TV shows from around the world.
- CloudStream: CloudStream is an open source Android application to watch free content from various provider.
- Discovery Plus: discovery+ is the streaming home of Food, Home, Travel, True Crime, Paranormal and so much more.
- Midnight Pulp: The perfect streaming channel for all things strange!
- Paramount+: Welcome to A Mountain of Entertainment.
- Popflick: Start your free trial and watch our expanding library of award-winning movies, documentaries, and shorts.
- Viki: Watch all your favorite subtitled Asian dramas, movies, and TV shows anytime, anywhere with Rakuten Viki.

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