I've been working on a small project to remote control (via ssh mostly) my qbittorrent client. It's going well and I've already taken care of the basic functions I set out to create.

pause all
resume all
set default parameters to all torrents
sort priority to mirror dl_limit
shutdown client

Obviously I'll add more.

Thought I'd stop by and ask if anyone knows of a similar project. I'd be open to sharing the code but for now just the question.

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[–] peo@feddit.it 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Maybe you want to have a look at https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/Running-qBittorrent-without-X-server-(WebUI-only) . qbittorrent-nox runs from the command line

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I actually run nox as my primary client because my server is headless so this is certainly relevant. Well, sort of headless, I broadcast a vnc server then use mullvad to manage qbittorrent thru localhost:8080.

Or if I wanna manage it from a different computer, create a ssh route to the server from that computer, and well.. do the same thing as above.

The limitation was that I need to open a web browser for both of those scenarios, and I just want to do everything thru the terminal. I know, I'm weird. Ideally I'd love to have a fully featured CLI interface but for now just simple stuff.

Just don't wanna go reinventing the wheel. But if my project is original then I will continue to work on it and share it once it's a bit more polished. The community can always use more projects, right?

[–] peo@feddit.it 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I see your point and such a project sound interesting to me. Please keep us updated

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

Will do, I've been working on un-hardcoding some dev stuff and getting it ready to be published for general use. I will post the update on this sub-lemmy when it's ready.

[–] liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe not exactly the same, but I know lots of people use this: https://github.com/StuffAnThings/qbit_manage

It relies on the qbittorrent-api PyPi library, which is feature rich.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I rely on the same library actually, I'll check out that repo tmrw. It may be different than my project but I could use some inspiration so this is very relevant.

Thanks a lot.

[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Something like https://github.com/fedarovich/qbittorrent-cli ? Haven't used it myself but it's been on my radar.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

This is wonderful, I'm going to look at their implementations. That person certainly has the same goals as myself. This seems like a good chance to learn some C#. Whether I extend this person's project or continue with my own implementation, I will post my results here once they are ready to be made public. Any persons reading this is free to message me to ask about progress.

[–] chM5tZ8zMp@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet: List of unofficial WebAPI clients