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qbittorrent-cli

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qbittorrent-cli is a feature rich CLI to manage qBittorrent. It provides features such as; Add torrents, categories, tags, reannounce and import torrent sessions from other clients.

More information can be found here.

Installation

Connect to your Ultra service via SSH.
Once connected, execute the following command:

bash <(wget -qO- https://scripts.ultra.cc/main-v2/qBittorrent-cli/main.sh)

Type 1 and confirm with ENTER to proceed with the installation.
When prompted, enter your qBittorrent password.

Your qBittorrent password can be found on the UCP.

Confirm the installation was successful by executing the following command:

qbt help

If successful, your terminal will output usage instructions for qbittorrent-cli.

Usage

Print usage instructions: qbt help
Print command specific usage instructions: qbt torrent import help

qbittorrent-cli can do a lot of things. For example, to import your Deluge torrent session into qBittorrent, see the below command. You can do a test run of the command by appending --dry-run to the command.

Before you start migrating your torrent session. Make sure you have set the same Default save path for your destination torrent client, as you have set for your source torrent client. Failing to do so would result in your new torrent client re-downloading all of your torrents again.

Import torrent session to qBittorrent

qbt torrent import deluge --source-dir ~/.config/deluge/state/ --qbit-dir ~/.local/share/qBittorrent/BT_backup/

Export torrent session from qBittorrent

qbt torrent export --source ~/.local/share/qBittorrent/BT_backup/ --export-dir ~/watch/deluge

In the above command, we have used Deluge as an example. The paths can easily be replaced to match the path of other torrent clients. See them listed below.
Paths to the torrent session state of each torrent client:

Deluge: ~/.config/deluge/state
qBittorrent: ~/.local/share/qBittorrent/BT_backup
rTorrent: ~/.config/rtorrent/session
Transmission: ~/.config/transmission-daemon/torrents

Paths to the watch directory of each torrent client:

Deluge: ~/watch/deluge
qBittorrent: ~/watch/qbittorrent
rTorrent: ~/watch/rtorrent
Transmission: ~/watch/transmission

For more information about torrent session migration, see this guide.

Uninstallation

Execute the following command:

bash <(wget -qO- https://scripts.ultra.cc/main-v2/qBittorrent-cli/main.sh)

Type 2 and confirm with ENTER to proceed with the uninstallation

The uninstallation will leave your configuration file untouched at ~/.config/qbt/.qbt.toml

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qbittorrent-cli
Installation
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