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I have installed headless qBittorrent on my server. I can access it through the web UI (localy or through internet) but it's not convegnent (e.g., when I download a torrent, it's not associated with the web UI, so it does not open there, the web UI is great but far from perfect).

I wonder if it's possible to use the local qBittorrent client as a remote for the server one. In other words, could it just send the actions I do localy as actions on the server and show on the UI the state of the torrents on the server.

Sébastien
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Unfortunately it's not possible using the official client.
However you should check out Electorrent. It works with various torrent clients (including qBittorrent of course) and is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Trigus
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I was going through similar problem recently and after digging I've found that unfortunately it is not possible. qBittorrent simply does not support it.

I know this is not the answer you expect but there are other clients which have such feature, for example:

gravell
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Transmission Remote GUI is hard to beat as far as native torrent remote control GUIs go, and gives you the same uTorrent/qBittorrent-like design. You can use it with qBittorrent with https://github.com/xavery/Reflection

Dark
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If you on macOS try Lizard - remote GUI for qBittorrent daemon.

Nikolai Nagornyi
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If you're looking for this, what you want is at https://github.com/fedarovich/qbittorrent-cli

You can then add torrents by magnet link or torrent file through cmd.

example: qbt torrent add url %1 -c Movies --url http://192.168.2.13:2222 in a .bat file where the argument would be the magnetlink, for downloading in the category Movies. The ip and port (192.168.2.13:2222) is my example, yours may differ.

Associate this bat file with magnet:// links in your browser, and you can download those on your remote server by just clicking those links.

With a little bit of extra work you can also download torrent files this way.

For a slightly more complex example where you can choose category:

@echo off

echo Downloading magnet link
echo ------------------------
echo 1. MOVIES
echo 2. SERIES
echo 3. GAMES
echo 4. APPS
echo 5. TUTORIALS
echo ------------------------
choice /C 12345 /N /M "Choose category: "
if ERRORLEVEL 1 SET category=Movies
if ERRORLEVEL 2 SET category=Series
if ERRORLEVEL 3 SET category=Games
if ERRORLEVEL 4 SET category=Apps
if ERRORLEVEL 5 SET category=Tutorials
start /B /I /MIN "" qbt torrent add url %1 -c %category% --url http://192.168.2.13:2222
exit /B 0
Karlsson
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You can also do a local port forwarding as such:

ssh -L 8080:localhost:8080 pi@hostname_of_rpi

You can access qbittorent's UI by entering: localhost:8080 at your browser's local host.

Tested on a headless raspberry pi.

getleft
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