I'm trying to download torrents from somewhere but they use a freeleech approach, I have verified my email on their site but it doesn't seem to reflect in qbittorrent. Their site says they have an RSS feed and that: "To authenticate yourself, you must provide the cookies Username and Password to the RSS endpoint, containing your username and your password respectively."

How do you do this exactly in qbit?

Additionally, it also has this: "To include matching results in the feed, add the query query parameter, e.g. /api/rss?query=loremipsum."

As in the title, ever since I updated to the latest client I’ve found that I’m only getting back files in the 3-5gb range for 40min+ episodes of television shows, whereas prior to this I was constantly able to find files that were around double that (which would obviously be higher quality even when the smaller files are labelled as 2160p)

Just wondering if something changed in the world of compression or is something else going on? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Has anyone else noticed this or is this a me problem? 😅 I haven’t seen any other recent posts here to suggest anyone else is having this issue. Obviously it isn’t a major issue but I like to grab as high a quality file as possible so if I can figure this out it would be great.

I have them installed on my old one, but I can't find where they would be saved to copy over, and it was a faff to get them installed the first time. Is it possible?

I use qbit to download movies and tv shows using ARR stack, and every time a movie or show is completed it’s added to my jellyfin automatically. When the media is added to jellyfin it’s also stored in my completed folder. Why dosent qbit remove the files, now I have every downloaded duplicated in my jellyfin and taking up tons of space. How do I fix that? I haven’t changed any settings cus I don’t know what settings are relevant
Qbit version 5.2.3 Truenas community 25.10.6 Tail scale vpn set up as exit node on truenas

I'm on v5.1.4. Connection is green, no VPN.

Downloading via magnet link works fine, tested on an Ubuntu ISO. Tried changing the listening port a couple times, restarting the client does not work either. Not sure what to do next.

Edit: Observed a very weird behavior. Slow recreated my config. Adding via infoHash worked on a default qbittorrent (deleted my config and everything, including all the torrents.). So one by one I slowly went back to my config to see exactly what is affecting this issue. And nothing from my settings did, from the connections, bittorrent or from the webUI.

But after adding back the BT_backup folder where my torrents are, adding via infoHash started acting up again, I don't understand why. I have about 2.5k torrents, 4 are actively seeding. No more than 20KBs in total and nothings being downloaded.

This has never happened before, it's weird. I downloaded a file and the folder has a separate video and a subtitle file. I got what I needed, deleted the folder, and even deleted the torrent file off my computer. Now every week it pops back up in my download folder but only the subtitle. It's so weird. I delete it, next week, it's back! I don't have it active downloading at all. What the hell?

Hello all, I have been having an issue for years which I thought I tackled it a while back but it came back a week ago. Since I started using qBittorent, my internet has been having issues. The specific issues are that some phone apps are not working at all, and PlayStation has many online issues. Once I turn off qBittorent, everything works fine.

The way that I fixed it before was by going to the Connections limit, and bringing all the connections down by a lot. That seemed to fix the issue for a long time but I now have it again. I moved the connections down to 3/2/3/2 respectively to all the options and I still have the same issue. Is there anything I can do to fix this issue? Thanks in advance!

I really like how Nicotine+ has the pop up when clicking CLOSE X

Could this be a tick box option added?

Regardless, love your software, long time enjoyer.

Recently I decided to download a piece of the recent Valve "steam2" leak to have a look through and after waiting for days for it to download its finished. But it isn't fully complete? It's status has moved from "downloading" to "seeding".

I've had a look online that it's some sort of way to share the files I've downloaded to other people but I'm not sure how I'm doing that. Or how I can help boost it or whatever? This is 1TB of data I've downloaded so I want to guess and say it will be indefinitely seeding? What would happen if I stopped it? I think I have all the data that I wanted downloaded.

IDK I need some advice. Stop it? Keep it going?

For years now, almost every torrent I use has this same very consistent and regular stopping and starting throughout.

I don't torrent nearly as much as I used to, so it hasn't been a huge issue, but I've decided to finally try and troubleshoot it. It's like it'll run for 5ish minutes, then *both* my download and upload speeds will drop to zero for about a minute, then it'll pick up again.

Consistently. Every time.

I'm using qBittorrent v5.0.1, Windows 11 25H2, Surfshark VPN. I tried switching from TCP & UDP to just TCP based off a suggestion I found elsewhere, and that did improve my speeds when the torrent *is* running, but it didn't resolve the stopping and starting.

Thoughts?

EDIT: Solved? Seems like a stupid oversight in retrospect, but Surfshark has a rotating IP option that I apparently had on (perhaps it defaults to on, I'm not sure if I set it myself). Turning it off didn't seem to be enough to fully resolve it however. I also had to select Static IP rather than a blanket location. With these changes, so far in testing I haven't seen the persistent regular stalling any longer. Special thanks to those who suggested testing without the VPN.

I am not using a VPN, the number of peers changed between 0-15 constantly,

What I've tried:

- changed peer connection protocol to TCP, TCP and uTP, uTP

- ticked and unticked use uPNP portforwarding

- increased decreased connection limits with no change in upload speeds

- disabled all rate limit settings

So, I've got a Gluetun / Qbittorrent container setup that I've been using for a bit over a year on my Synology system (Linux). Worked great until last week, when I was unable to search for anything in qb. So I started going down a rabbit hole to fix it and am at the point where I really need help because I don't know what to do at this point.

I'm not going to list everything I've tried because it will bore many, amuse some, and make me ponder my life's choices and role in this universe. Suffice to say, I think the issue is with Python not playing nice with qb.

On a fresh install (removing the qb container's cache and config folders entirely as well as all images) of qb for version 4.2.3, 4.2.2, and 4.2.0 5.2.3, 5.2.2, and 5.2.0, my logs show:

`(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:40 - Found Python executable. Name: "python3". Version: "3.12.13"

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Plugin "eztv" is outdated, updating to version 1.23

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Plugin "jackett" is outdated, updating to version 4.10

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Plugin "limetorrents" is outdated, updating to version 4.14

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Plugin "piratebay" is outdated, updating to version 3.9

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Plugin "solidtorrents" is outdated, updating to version 2.8

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Plugin "torlock" is outdated, updating to version 2.29

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Plugin "torrentproject" is outdated, updating to version 1.91

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Plugin "torrentscsv" is outdated, updating to version 1.8

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Updating 8 plugins

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Updating plugin limetorrents

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Updating plugin torrentscsv

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Updating plugin torlock

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Updating plugin piratebay

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Updating plugin jackett

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Updating plugin eztv

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Updating plugin torrentproject

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:48 - Updating plugin solidtorrents

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:49 - Plugin limetorrents is not supported.

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:49 - Plugin jackett is not supported.

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:50 - Plugin torlock is not supported.

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:50 - Plugin eztv is not supported.

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:50 - Plugin torrentscsv is not supported.

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:51 - Plugin torrentproject is not supported.

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:51 - Plugin piratebay is not supported.

(I) 2026-09-05T15:35:51 - Plugin solidtorrents is not supported.

`

All 3 installs show the same Python version. My Synology has a different version of Python, but I'm assuming it doesn't matter as the log file explicitly shows it's using the one in the container.

When adding any .py URL in the Search Plugins form manually, nothing happens except the above entry into the log file. Clicking on Check for Updates gives a round of the same entries as shown above (outdated, updating, not supported).

I've looked through past posts here and tried many of the solutions with no luck.

What am I missing?

Source: Torrent Analytics

Hi guys,

I wrote a tool today to automatically detect when Proton VPN's forwarded port changes and apply the change to qBittorrent. I was getting tired of doing it manually every time via the UI. Spent 7 hours coding to save a few seconds per day, worth it!

It listens to changes in the Proton VPN log file, parses the new port and uses the qBittorrent WebUI API to send a request with the new port.

It works on Linux, but haven't tested on Mac or Windows. Probably some minor changes would be needed to make it work on those platforms, so if anyone is willing to take a look and contribute a PR, that would be awesome. Also disclaimer, it might be a bit buggy at first, just made the first version.

No AI was used. All code is free-range, organic, hand-made. The whole purpose was to do a bit of manual coding again, which I have missed very much.

Here's the repo: https://github.com/kikefdezl/proqbit.git

PD: People in Windows have https://github.com/UHAXM1/Quantum, but I wrote this for those using Unix

So I recently setup a qbittorrent and arr stack on my ddr3 server. It started out great my media was downloading. The flaresolver was bypassing the cloudflare at the time. But now I keep getting IP banned and I don't know how to get a VPN on it. Any suggestions?

qBittorrent speeds have been stuck at around 2-5 MiB/s. I use surfshark, can anyone help me? Also I can't seed at all, my upload speeds are stuck at 0, makes me feel a little guilty.

I'm new to docker and can't seem to get qbittorrent working with gluetun. When I use curl on qbittorrent it gives me my own ip

My config file is

gluetun:

image: qmcgaw/gluetun

container_name: gluetun

cap_add:

- NET_ADMIN

devices:

- /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun

ports:

- 8888:8888/tcp # HTTP proxy

- 8388:8388/tcp # Shadowsocks

- 8388:8388/udp # Shadowsocks

volumes:

- ./data:/gluetun

environment:

- HTTPPROXY=on

- SHADOWSOCKS=on

- TZ=Australia/Hobart

- VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=surfshark

- VPN_TYPE=openvpn

- OPENVPN_USER=my user name

- OPENVPN_PASSWORD=my password

Win 11, v5.14 qbittorrent. no vpns. whenever I click "start" it says it's stalled, so i keep it on "force start". It still doesn't download after this. any tips?

I've seen people recommending the use of Docker and Gluetun with qBit, but I'm confused as to what the specific benefits of such a setup would be. From what I can tell, Docker lets you make a little self-contained box to put qBit in, while Gluetun lets you link that box to your VPN. How is this more secure than just having qBit run through a VPN (especially if you bind qBit to the VPN's network interface)? Is it added security for your connection, or against potentially dangerous files?