this script can be run to update monitoring of all artists in lidarr to on, with all albums and search for missing enabled. this would be useful if a previous version of my script had been run which didnt have these options enabled while adding a list of new artists to lidarr

update_artists_monitoring.sh

#!/bin/bash

# --- CONFIGURATION ---
lidarr_url="http://localhost:8686"
api_key="YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"

echo "📥 Fetching all existing artists from Lidarr..."
all_artists=$(curl -s "$lidarr_url/api/v1/artist" -H "X-Api-Key: $api_key")

echo "$all_artists" | jq -c '.[]' | while read -r artist; do
  artist_id=$(echo "$artist" | jq '.id')
  artist_name=$(echo "$artist" | jq -r '.artistName')

  echo "🔧 Updating: $artist_name (ID: $artist_id)"

  updated_payload=$(echo "$artist" | jq \
    '.monitored = true |
     .addOptions = {
       monitor: "all",
       searchForMissingAlbums: true
     }')

  curl -s -X PUT "$lidarr_url/api/v1/artist/$artist_id" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "X-Api-Key: $api_key" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d "$updated_payload" > /dev/null

  echo "✅ Updated: $artist_name"
done