QBittorrent PHP API

A PHP client for the qbittorrent WebUI API

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or higher

Installation

Please use Composer for the installation. For Composer documentation, please refer to getcomposer.org.

Install the module:

$ composer require aldobarr/qbittorrent-php

Basic Usage

Basic usage will indicate how to create a new api object with login credentials and make a raw request to the api. All requests using this object will maintain the login state for the life of the object. The raw request method will return a PSR-7 ResponseInterface object. See guzzle documentation.

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use AldoBarr\QBittorrent;

$host = 'http://hostname';
$port = 1234;
$username = 'admin';
$password = 'pass';
$qbt = new QBittorrent($host, $port, $username, $password);
$response = $qbt->request('app/version');
echo $response->getBody()->getContents();

Usage

The qbittorrent object allows you to create a more specific api wrapper for interacting with the different APIs available. For example the basic usage example above may be rewritten as such:

echo $qbt->application()->version();

The application method will return an Application object which extends the main QBittorrent object and maintains the current login state. Each child object that implements an api prefix should contain a method that supports each api method under that prefix.

For accessing torrents, you may request a torrent object from the qbt object as such:

$hash = 'torrent-hash';
$torrent = $qbt->torrent($hash);

This torrent object may then interact with the torrent API. To get a list of all torrents use the torrents method:

// Note: `torrents/info` is implemented in the base qbittorrent class instead of the Torrent class
$torrents = $qbt->torrents();
foreach ($torrents as $torrent_data) {
	$torrent = $qbt->torrent($torrent_data->hash);

	// Get torrent files
	print_r($torrent->files());
}

For more information on available API methods, see the main QBittorrent WebUI Api documentation.

Adding a New Torrent

To add a new torrent use the addTorrent method of the QBittorrent class. This class supports all the parameters documented. All of the parameters are optional, however if both $urls and $file_paths are empty, then the method immediately returns false. Both $urls and $file_paths accept an array of values for adding torrents. The $file_paths parameter accepts an array of paths to try and send the binary file data to the qbittorrent api. $file_paths may also optionally be a key => value pair where the key is the name to specify for the file.

$qbt = new QBittorrent(...);
$qbt->addTorrent(file_paths: [
	'files1.torrent' => '/home/user/files1.torrent',
	'files2.torrent' => '/home/user2/some/path/files2.torrent'
]);

License

This php API wrapper is open-sourced software licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.