Pruner

A simple Python script to remove completed torrents from qBittorrent.
Note: PowerShell version no longer maintained!

Features

• Configurable delay (only remove torrents once completed for X minutes)
• Skip torrents in certain category (useful for Sonarr)

Requirements

• qBittorrent 4.1 or later
• Python 3 + requests module

Basic Install

• Run pip install requests
  If that fails, google how to install pip into python 3 for your environment.
• Update script config variables for your setup: server, username and password.
• Run script with python3 /path/to/script/pruner.py
• If this doesn't work your python or pip is set up wrong.

Synology NAS Install

Prerequisites

1. Enable home folders via DSM
   (Control Panel > User > Advanced > Enable user home service).
2. Enable SSH access via DSM and log in as admin user
   Using the default admin account makes your NAS vulnerable to brute force attacks but we will use it here for simplicity.
3. Install Python 3 package via DSM. (3.8.2 used)

Setup

1. Invoke pip using this command to install the requests module

   admin@server:~$ /volume1/\@appstore/py3k/usr/local/bin/pip3 install requests
   

2. Put the configured pruner.py script somewhere on your NAS.

3. Test it manually from the shell to make sure it works.

   admin@server:~$ python3 /volume1/configs/scripts/pruner.py
   

4. Create a cron job (scheduled task) in Synology DSM with the above command to run as admin user.

Version history

• 0.4 - Added option to exclude by category.
• 0.3 - Added authentication support, fix delete API call to use GET method.
• 0.2 - Updated to work with qBittorrent API v2.
• 0.1 - Convert to Python. Fix bug with prune age detection.