Support creating new torrents using the WebUI #5614

stevenroose · 2016-08-04T22:46:47Z

I have currently setup a headless qBittorrent on my server machine with tracker enabled. I want to be able to create torrents and share them with friends / tracker websites. However the WebUI does not support creating new torrents from existing files.

Until this feature is implemented, can anyone point me to a workaround solution? Can I create torrents using the command line interface? Can I create a torrent on my desktop client and import it into the server while copying over the files?

Balls0fSteel · 2017-01-20T15:26:38Z

Of course you can with the command line.
In fact, that's the de-facto standard for seeders / rls groups.

http://mktorrent.sourceforge.net/
https://askubuntu.com/questions/32024/how-to-create-a-torrent-using-the-command-line/32038
(see top two answers)

But most people just use mktorrent.

stevenroose · 2017-01-20T19:42:15Z

The thing is that having access to the WebUI doesn't necessarily mean that I also have SSH access to the server.

LayerCorp · 2017-11-17T13:00:45Z

So, is not possible to create torrents using the WebUI of qbittorrent? :(

Balls0fSteel · 2017-11-17T13:32:01Z

@NANO-Chile Nope, not at the moment. The API, functionality is there and all, but the WEB UI lacks devs a bit. So if anyone has Qt + web skills, they are more than welcome to implement the functionality. Most is already there, no new function has to be added. But it has to be wired up.

stevenroose · 2017-11-17T13:55:20Z

One additional problem I can envision is that either you would require users to fill in the exact file/directory paths in the web ui or you'd have to create a file chooser diagram, which could be tricky.

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aronmgv · 2019-05-29T11:31:10Z

I mean this is such huge drawback to not have it.. and also please allow us to save default settings for that and configure torrent name. description etc.
nice example: https://kimbatt.github.io/torrent-creator/ but doesnt work for remote scenario.. needs to be part of the WebUI..

rrrevin · 2019-10-15T13:02:54Z

Is this on the roadmap?
It's been 3 years since this was open/requested, and from what I can't find, it's not a priority?

bobbintb · 2019-12-04T07:08:57Z

@NANO-Chile Nope, not at the moment. The API, functionality is there and all, but the WEB UI lacks devs a bit. So if anyone has Qt + web skills, they are more than welcome to implement the functionality. Most is already there, no new function has to be added. But it has to be wired up.

Is it in the API? I was trying to write a script to automate some things and there is nothing in the API documentation about creating torrents.

dausruddin · 2020-05-03T15:38:34Z

rTorrent+ruTorrent stopped workking on me. Would be great if another great torrent client such as qBittorrent can do this.

zotabee · 2021-09-15T15:23:06Z

Would love that feature. A lot of people only use the WebUI via a server/docker install.

Please, consider adding it on the roadmap.

tssge · 2021-11-27T13:46:12Z

Times have changed and Bountysource doesn't seem very trustworthy. Is there some other way I can post a bounty for this feature or donate towards it?

firozzer · 2022-06-05T14:16:55Z

Is there any latest update which allows to create .torrent file on command line with qbittorrent-nox? Or still mktorrent & ctorrent are to be used on cli?

ahopelesshadow · 2022-07-16T08:51:49Z

its been 6 years now, and this gets some bumps every now and then... but its still not documented in the api anywhere, and that will need to be done before the webui will ever see this feature. It would be nice i agree, at least to get it in the api, then others could essentially do whatever they needed to with python scripts. But for now were stuck using 3rdparty.

gravelfreeman · 2023-03-21T05:45:44Z

7 years now! You'd be the first of the torrent clients to offer torrent creation in web-ui. I just tried Transmission and Deluge and same thing.

zotabee · 2023-03-22T19:27:34Z

Please consider this feature !

tiritibambix · 2023-07-24T12:20:54Z

It's been
6 years, 11 months and 19 days
Or
6.97 years
Or
83.62 months
Or
2544 days.

I don't loose hope 🥲

luzpaz · 2023-07-24T15:10:44Z

Who's gonna write-up a technical proposal on how do implement this ?

luzpaz · 2024-02-17T16:19:20Z

Folks that are interested in this feature should test #20366 and report back

happyTonakai · 2024-02-19T02:14:32Z

It's been a long wait. Cheers!

Closes qbittorrent#5614.

WolfganP · 2024-02-25T00:27:25Z

Excellent, thx @glassez . I'll try to rebuild my dev environment, test and report back.

PR #20366. Closes #5614. Co-authored-by: Radu Carpa <[email protected]>

abu-marwa · 2024-03-03T03:09:38Z

I'm in the same boat, would love to have this feature

Sawtaytoes · 2024-03-15T22:41:37Z

What release will this be in? Or are we not sure yet?

christaikobo · 2024-03-15T23:25:53Z

Based on milestone, it will be out by 5.0. However I'm not so sure why this issue is closed already, since only WebAPI is added but the function is still not available via WebUI because the UI part is not implemented yet.

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ppriorfl · 2024-04-10T15:57:27Z

8+ years and still hoping for being able to create torrent using GUI....

Pretty please with whipped cream and cherry on top?
Or maybe double dog dare you to get this done?

nostrus-dominion · 2024-04-10T16:44:13Z

It was merged into the code a few weeks ago but I'm thinking it'll be either v4.7 or v5.0 for that feature.

christaikobo · 2024-04-10T16:47:45Z

No the WEBUI is not implemented yet. Only API was.

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shmup · 2024-09-02T18:19:11Z

Let me help, assign me some tickets :P

christaikobo · 2024-09-02T18:25:28Z

It's been such a long march, and feels like it's close to the finish line. Hopefully someone picks it up.

xavier2k6 · 2024-09-02T18:46:10Z

Let me help, assign me some tickets :P

Please feel free to submit PR's.

shmup · 2024-09-03T16:58:07Z

My intention with alerting this thread was to lazily understand what the work "looks" like, re: "assign me tickets". I hadn't realized this project uses milestones -- convenient!

I noticed someone said it looks to be handled in 5.0 but I'm not sure that's true. Checking in 5.1 I'm not also sure I see the definitive needed work.

Mind tossing me a few overview details? We have an API, we need the UI developed out. Do we have notes for hacking on this, setting up the environment?

I'm happy to start carving out sense in the UI work, though I'll need to understand the dev environment a bit first.

HoreaM · 2024-09-03T17:45:46Z

I noticed someone said it looks to be handled in 5.0 but I'm not sure that's true.

I think they might have been referring to this. Can't provide any details other than that though, sorry.

Risinggoblin · 2024-09-30T17:31:22Z

I noticed someone said it looks to be handled in 5.0 but I'm not sure that's true.

I think they might have been referring to this. Can't provide any details other than that though, sorry.

nope, wasn't handled in 5.0 as far as I can see

the-eversio · 2024-12-07T00:48:18Z

I studied the linked PR and was able to create a torrent with cURL. It looks something like this:

curl -i -c qbittorrent.cookies \
        --header 'Referer: http://localhost:8080' \
        --data "username=$webui_username&password=$webui_password" http://localhost:8080/api/v2/auth/login

curl -v http://localhost:8080/api/v2/torrentcreator/addTask \
        -c qbittorrent.cookies \
        -F private=true \
        -F startSeeding=true \
        -F format="v1" \
        -F trackers="https://some-private-tracker/announce" \
        -F comment="trackername" \
        -F source="trackername" \
        -F torrentFilePath="/path/to/new/file.torrent" \
        -F sourcePath="/path/to/content/linux.iso"

There's a bug in v5.0.2 and earlier where source is populated with the comment field, so keep these the same. I guess it might be fixed in 5.1 because the fix is in master but not the 5.0.x branch.

christaikobo · 2024-12-07T01:20:08Z

For anyone interested you can try vuetorrent. It's a webui for qbit. It has torrent creation implemented.

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glassez · 2024-12-07T04:20:53Z

I guess it might be fixed in 5.1 because the fix is in master but not the 5.0.x branch.

~~#21496~~
#21898

the-eversio · 2024-12-07T05:37:53Z

For anyone interested you can try vuetorrent. It's a webui for qbit. It has torrent creation implemented.

I was in the process of trying VueTorrent when you posted this :) I should have started with that.
The lack of a source field means this won't work for me once the fix above lands (due to a private tracker requirement) but otherwise this looks sufficient, if a little basic.

christaikobo · 2024-12-07T06:38:36Z

For anyone interested you can try vuetorrent. It's a webui for qbit. It has torrent creation implemented.

I was in the process of trying VueTorrent when you posted this :) I should have started with that. The lack of a source field means this won't work for me once the fix above lands (due to a private tracker requirement) but otherwise this looks sufficient, if a little basic.

It's already fixed in vuetorrent: VueTorrent/VueTorrent#2069

The function is basic is because that's all that qbittorrent API provides.

the-eversio · 2024-12-09T12:21:51Z

It's already fixed in vuetorrent: VueTorrent/VueTorrent#2069

Nice, thank you. I've switched over to VueTorrent for this feature and the better mobile experience.

The function is basic is because that's all that qbittorrent API provides.

That's fair. I appreciate the auto-completion on the file pickers too - it's not the smoothest UX but it's simple and it works.

I won't derail this thread any further - for anyone waiting on an official web UI for creating torrent files there's two workarounds available

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Add "Torrent Creator" function on Web UI #16598

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Provide torrent creation feature via WebAPI

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Closes qbittorrent#5614.

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PR #20366. Closes #5614. Co-authored-by: Radu Carpa <[email protected]>

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