qBittorrent

TypeScript api wrapper for qBittorrent using ofetch

Install

npm install @ctrl/qbittorrent
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Use

import { QBittorrent } from '@ctrl/qbittorrent';

const client = new QBittorrent({
  baseUrl: 'http://localhost:8080/',
  username: 'admin',
  password: 'adminadmin',
});

async function main() {
  const res = await client.getAllData();
  console.log(res);
}
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API

Docs: https://qbittorrent.vercel.app
qBittorrent Api Docs: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/WebUI-API-(qBittorrent-4.1)

Normalized API

These functions have been normalized between torrent clients to easily support switching between multiple torrent clients. See below for alternative supported torrent clients

getAllData

Returns all torrent data and an array of label objects. Data has been normalized and does not match the output of native listTorrents().

const data = await client.getAllData();
console.log(data.torrents);
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getTorrent

Returns one torrent data from torrent hash

const data = await client.getTorrent('torrent-hash');
console.log(data);
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pauseTorrent and resumeTorrent

Pause or resume a torrent

const paused = await client.pauseTorrent();
console.log(paused);
const resumed = await client.resumeTorrent();
console.log(resumed);
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removeTorrent

Remove a torrent. Does not remove data on disk by default.

// does not remove data on disk
const result = await client.removeTorrent('torrent_id', false);
console.log(result);

// remove data on disk
const res = await client.removeTorrent('torrent_id', true);
console.log(res);
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addTorrent

Add a torrent, has client specific options. Also see normalizedAddTorrent

const result = await client.addTorrent(fs.readFileSync(torrentFile));
console.log(result);
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normalizedAddTorrent

Add a torrent and return normalized torrent data, can start a torrent paused and add label

const result = await client.normalizedAddTorrent(fs.readFileSync(torrentFile), {
    startPaused: false;
    label: 'linux';
});
console.log(result);
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export and create from state

If you're shutting down the server often (serverless?) you can export the state

const state = client.exportState()
const client = QBittorrent.createFromState(config, state);
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See Also

All of the following npm modules provide the same normalized functions along with supporting the unique apis for each client.

deluge - https://github.com/scttcper/deluge
transmission - https://github.com/scttcper/transmission
utorrent - https://github.com/scttcper/utorrent

Start a test docker container

docker run -d \
  --name=qbittorrent \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=Etc/UTC \
  -e WEBUI_PORT=8080 \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -p 6881:6881 \
  -p 6881:6881/udp \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest
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