[Feature Request] Stats for Categories in Hydra

[rg9400]

I often get questions about which indexer is best for books or music or TV. While each indexer has an overall quality associated with it, there are some indexers that specialize in specific categories.

I was thinking that it could be useful to see some stats based on category. It could help analyze which indexers give the best results for books for example, which may actually not be giving the best results overall.

I was thinking that there were a few different ways to 1) capture the metric and 2) display it.

For capturing the metric, I initially thought there were 3 options

• User-Agent since specific tools are aimed at specific things. However, if you use Hydra's internal searches, this would be useless. Also, if a single tool handles multiple types, then it would not give good data
• Search Type: Hydra tracks specific search types like music, movies, ebooks, and TV. Not all indexers can utilize these searches though, and it does not capture all the types of releases, i.e. audiobooks.
• Categories: These give the proper granular level of categorization that can be useful for a variety of different releases. However, they may be too granular (Movies HD vs Movies SD unless the generic Movies would contain both), and they can be defined by users and modified. Not sure if Hydra cares about the latter if it is tracking the download's category at the time.

For displaying them

• A new chart could be created, but you have many types of categories that would need to be tracked against many different indexers. Users may also want different types of stats beyond just total downloads, e.g. the uniqueness score.
• A filter at the top can be added to filter by a specific category. In this case, all the charts could be recalculated against that category, and the user would be able to get a very detailed analysis of their indexers against that category since the existing stats give a wide amount of data. For myself, this would work perfectly since I would be interested in all the categories most often, but when I want to do analysis, I only care about doing it within a category across my indexers.
• If people do care about the reverse, then the above solution does not work. Specifically, if they want to see the category breakdown within a single indexer. I'm not sure about the exact usecase here, and I don't particularly need it. I'm just listing it for discussion purposes.