This plugin VS offical plugin

This plugin comes with some additional functionality to the offical plugin such as Tracker/Indexer type. e.g private, public etc.. and Download and Upload factor.

qBittorrent comes with a few search plugins. Although these are enough for most users, if you wish to add more search engines, you can download Jacket configure the Jackett qBittorrent plugin (essentially, set the API key).

Jackett is a server program that provides support for more than 400 torrent sites (public and private). You may download the plugin at this address.

Disable the Jackett plugin

By default, the Jackett plugin is enabled in qBittorrent. If you want to disable it, follow these steps:

1. In the Search tab, click the Search plugins... button (bottom-right)
2. Right click on the Jackett plugin
3. Uncheck the Enabled checkbox
4. Close the modal window

Configuration file

The Jackett plugin uses an external configuration file. This allows to update the plugin without losing the settings.

The file jackett.json should be located in the qBittorrent search engines folder:

• Windows: %localappdata%\qBittorrent\nova3\engines\
• Linux: ~/.local/share/data/qBittorrent/nova3/engines/, or ~/.local/share/qBittorrent/nova3/engines/, or ~/.var/app/org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent/data/qBittorrent/nova3/engines if using Flatpak
• OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/qBittorrent/nova3/engines/

Note: If the file doesn't exist, you can create it by copying the following JSON:

{
    "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE", 
    "tracker_first": false, 
    "url": "http://127.0.0.1:9117"
}

Note 3: Remember to start Jackett first. :)

Note 4: If running qBittorrent headless and using the web page on a remote server, Jackett needs to be configured to allow remote calls and its IP. Eg:

$ cat config/data/qBittorrent/nova3/engines/jackett.json
{
    "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE",
    "tracker_first": false,
    "url": "http://yourserverip:9117"
}

Configuration properties

Property	Default value	Description
api_key	YOUR_API_KEY_HERE	Jackett API Key (you can find it on top of Jackett UI)
tracker_first	false	(false/true) add tracker name to the beginning of search result
url	http://127.0.0.1:9117	Jackett URL (without the end slash)

API Key in Jackett web UI:

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