I’m trying to setup a system in order for the webUI to automatically open a window and ask me where to save a new torrent, as soon as I finish downloading it, or, better yet, paste a magnet link on it. I need webUI and can’t use the Qbittorrent client because opening it’ll run two instances of qbittorrent over each other overwriting settings one unto the other.
My idea is simply that I setup the browser to open the files as soon as finished downloading, by using a shortcut to the webui (there must be a way to create the shortcut to the actual webpage), but I’d prefer it more if I had less control (ideally just the usual settings you can look at when adding a torrent) through the transgui, in order to simply hasten the management of everything through categories instead of looking at a long list of things when not needed. There could be a transgui that can achieve that, Something like https://github.com/tympanix/Electorrent perhaps?
trans
Oh god don’t use that word they’ll come for us
Transgui?
an alternative graphical user interface that replaces the function of the webUI and is an alternative to the default qbittorrent client.
huh. and here i was expecting a trans flag colored theme for the gui.
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Both the webui and desktop app already support pasting a link. Click the add link button, right next to the add file button.
Qb has a setting for monitoring a folder for .torrent files. IIRC, you can set a default directory or you can have it ask you every time. That seems like it would cover your use case.
I use it to auto-start downloading all .torrent files in ~/Downloads and it works well.
What? You can specify a torrent download location over the web UI. Do you want an interactive picker?
yes
Idk how hard it is to make a browser addon but a website userscript won’t be enough, those don’t have access to the filesystem obviously.
Not a solution to your problem, but just wanted to let you know you can run multiple instances of qB side-by-side. Make a new profile directory and use the option --profile=<new-profile-dir>.
I personally like Flood, never tried it with qBt, but I use it with ruTorrent all the time
I also recommend qBitController if you want to access it from Android, or qBitControl if you’re on iOS (has to be sideloaded from AltStore)
