From the README:
Pausing popular torrents isn’t something that qBittorrent handles well. This library uses 2 criteria to pause / stop torrents.
They are stopped if they are:
- Popular (IE have a lot of total seeds), and
- You’ve given back more than what you’ve taken (IE a seed ratio > 1)
Requirements
- Rust
- A qBittorrent server.
- An API key generated through the web UI.
- A crontab where this script can be periodically run.
Usage
This will pause torrents with a ratio >= 2, and more than 10 total seeds.
cargo run -- \
--api-key API_KEY \
--endpoint ENDPOINT \
--ratio 2 \
--total-seeds 10
Sounds like a nice thing. Although I think I’ll continue doing that manually. I have a habit of evaluating the content that I’ve got from torrents. I do it in my mind explicitly. And then I share longer proportionally to how good the thing was, and how rare I estimate it is. This is decided once and doesn’t change after, with a built-in “share ratio” limit. Once a torrent reaches its ratio and becomes Paused, I know that it’s done and can be removed.
In the beginning, all torrents stop as soon as they finished downloading, to let me evaluate the content. (Uninteresting stuff I intentionally don’t share back at all.)
For sure. I’ve done it manually for years up until now, when I realized they make really easy to use libraries for rust.
I’ve done the share ratio only filter like you, but I realized that some torrents are heavily leeched, yet stay unpopular. IE my share ratio was > 100, yet I was still the only seeder. So this library makes sure that they’re also popular before pausing them.
