Parental controls / age rating restrictions [reopen feature request]

[jstebenne]

Description

An identical feature request exists, but it was closed.

Being able to filter by content rating is a very important feature so I am taking the liberty of creating a duplicate feature request, while assuming that this issue should be closed and the original issue reopened.

I am copying below the content of the original feature request by @bverkron

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As a parent I like to give my kids access to discover new content and request it. However there are some movies / tv shows that have inappropriate covers. Here is an example that came up when my child was browsing the Discover section on the iPad.

Desired Behavior

It would be helpful if, like Plex and other apps, I could limit what they can see based on rating. Plex handles it by allowing only specific age ratings / labels or excluding specific age ratings / labels. I find this system works pretty well but there are a number of other ways it could be implemented too. Ideally the restrictions would apply to all content including Discover and search results, etc.

Additional Context

Link to the original feature request: https://github.com/sct/overseerr/issues/3130

Code of Conduct

• [X] I agree to follow Overseerr's Code of Conduct

[sct]

We already block any adult content from showing from TMDB, but if it's not properly labeled there is nothing we can do to filter it out. If you update the content on TMDB it will help remove it from Overseerr but that's about the best we can do.

[jstebenne]

@sct Parental control does not stop at adult content. Sure, I want to prevent my young nephew from stumbling upon adult movies, but I also do not want him to find the latest Winnie the Pooh movie

[bverkron]

We already block any adult content from showing from TMDB...

Would it not be possible to create an abstraction in the UI for this so that admins can apply their own filters to the TMDB search / integration either globally or at the user level? Since you're already filtering out Adult tags I imagine all the underlying logic is there and it just needs some work on expose it. I know it's likely not that simple, just a thought on a possible approach.

Parental control does not stop at adult content.

Good point @jstebenne, I somewhat incorrectly refer to anything R rated or otherwise inappropriate for younger viewers as "adult" content but there is the distinction between "Adult", which usually means pornographic, and R rated or other inappropriate content.

[ccartano]

Even on a 'non-parental' level, there seems to be a lot of NR/NC-17 rated films in the general Discovery listing. Having a default 'safe-search' filter of G|PG|PG-13|R rating could resolve some of the issues here.

Using the TMDB 'Certification' filter in the default discovery or search params could do it. Just finding a way to allow users via a check box or somethhing of the sort, to re-enable non-safe searches could keep everyone happy until theres more direct parental controls

[m0narch1]

Any word on this from the team?

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[jstebenne]

Is there a way to prevent the stale bot from closing this? Other than bumping/spamming the issue. The feature request being stale does not mean it is any less valid or should be ignored.

[jondoud]

Has anyone been looking at this? I have seen this request (or something like it) at least four times previously, which then autoclose because they go stale. I was one of those requestors who lost their request.

If so many users are requesting this, shouldn't it be a higher priority?

This seems like a default filter rather than some re-engineering of the application.

[Andy4Shurr]

Has there been any development on this request? It is a feature I would also love to see implemented and having filters that can be persistently set in the user pane of an admin account would be a great fix for any controlled accounts.

[Virchy]

It will be great if you can limit Genres in certain kid's profile. So they can't change it.

[Shabbypenguin]

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/897066?language=en popped up in my discover movies page. The film is correctly marked as softcore, but it wont let me mark it as porn. i can understand that would have a lot of overlap on rated R movies however i feel like there should be some kind of balance.

[vexanix]

I want to be able to filter for age rating, so I can actually find stuff appropriate for an 11 year old in any genre outside of family. Or so I can search for action movies that are only R rated. I really don't understand how this filter is not a default option.

[johnny12times]

Adding my desire for this to the list. Having it would increase my usage from 2 folks in my household (myself and my wife) to 6 folks in my household and guests. As it is though, I can't let me kids browse without guaranteeing they will run into mature content within a few minutes at most.

I'll add that jellyfin has an excellent setup for this, allowing a max level of permissions but also allowing for the exclusion of any content that isn't tagged with a content rating.

[Sobesharpe]

I just want to +1 this request. Nothing would make me happier than to know that I can protect myself and my family from some of the images that are forced upon me. I appreciate all of the work and details that go into making this request a reality.

[kanjieater]

This issue gets significantly worse when filtering by language, as foreign films have an even worse fill rate on TMDB.

Like, if I could just filter out tags I could at least clean up my top 10 Japanese results by just filtering out the bondage tag.

[tonyyo11]

Also really need this feature. I make use of separate sonarr/radarr severs dedicated to “the family/kids”. Being able to search in Overseerr for age appropriate content, such as things rated just PG and so forth would be greatly beneficial when searching for new content for those dedicated servers.

[Geekerbyname]

Another vote here. I'd love overseerr to honour the plex age ratings when importing plex users. Or just the ability to set age limits for searches for each user.

[arlexTech]

Same, i'm tired of seeing lot of herotic movies when scrolling to find movies

[Johnt5818]

I would also like to see this. I give my parents access to it, and they don't understand why I can't block content for them.

[Aissasa]

This would be great! I got around to sharing my lib with my siblings, which have kids that might fiddle with this, and yeah, some of the entries are not safe for sure.