---
title: "Deploy Watcharr media tracker"
description: "Protected movie, television, anime, and game tracking."
category: "Other"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/watcharr-media-tracker
---

# Deploy Watcharr media tracker

Protected movie, television, anime, and game tracking.

**[Deploy Watcharr media tracker on Railway](https://railway.com/template/watcharr-media-tracker)**

- **Creator:** Anton Orel's Projects
- **Category:** Other
- **Total deploys:** 1

## Template content

### Watcharr Gateway

- **Image:** caddy:2.11.4-alpine@sha256:5f5c8640aae01df9654968d946d8f1a56c497f1dd5c5cda4cf95ab7c14d58648
- **Start command:** `/bin/sh -ec 'password_hash="$(caddy hash-password --plaintext "$GATEWAY_PASSWORD")"; printf "%s\n" "$GATEWAY_CONFIG" | sed -e "s|__USERNAME__|$GATEWAY_USERNAME|g" -e "s|__PASSWORD_HASH__|$password_hash|g" -e "s|__UPSTREAM__|$UPSTREAM|g" >/tmp/Caddyfile; exec caddy run --config /tmp/Caddyfile --adapter caddyfile'`
- **Health check:** /healthz
- **Public domain:** Yes

### Watcharr

- **Image:** ghcr.io/sbondco/watcharr:v4.2.1@sha256:62d24ca2fdc634f313e674a7ddba7b0fc6238a216fae9ebd6891755cd54eb1cf
- **Health check:** /

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Watcharr media tracker on Railway

Watcharr is a self-hosted tracker for movies, television, anime, and games, with personal ratings, progress, lists, and discovery metadata.

## About Hosting Watcharr media tracker

The template runs the immutable Watcharr 4.2.1 image with a 5 GB persistent data volume. A Caddy gateway guards first-administrator setup and account registration while preserving Watcharr's own JWT authentication for normal use.

## Why Deploy Watcharr media tracker on Railway

Railway supplies HTTPS, generated setup credentials, health-gated deployment, and durable storage. The selective gateway policy closes unauthenticated setup without interfering with the application's authorization header.

## Common Use Cases

- Track movies and television across streaming services
- Record anime and game progress in one place
- Maintain private ratings, history, and watch lists

## Dependencies for Watcharr media tracker Hosting

The deployment uses [Watcharr](https://watcharr.app), [Watcharr source](https://github.com/sbondCo/Watcharr), [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com), and one Railway volume.

### Deployment Dependencies

- Watcharr 4.2.1
- Caddy gateway
- One 5 GB Railway volume


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