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Easy way of saving single .torrent files #10529

Closed Splike closed 2 years ago

Splike commented 5 years ago

OBS! This is technically a duplicate of #5655, but I felt it needed a new post, adding greater detail to the issue from the very beginning.

I usually download the .torrent files first, before adding them to qBittorrent, but sometimes I do get torrents through direct magnet links (RSS feed for example).

Currently it's easy to copy a magnet link by right-clicking a torrent, but sometimes the .torrent file is needed. Now I have a few options as far as I know:

The missing piece here, is an option for users who need the file at an irregular interval. A button next to the copy magnet link called something like Save .torrent file or Export .torrent file, which will open a window, allowing me to pick the save location and maybe even change the name.

A more simple solution would to have the button called something like Export .torrent file to desktop (I use Windows, so the button might have to have a slightly different name on other systems). Which when pressed, will automatically save the .torrent file to the named location using the same naming/saving logic used in issue #4205

coolio2013 commented 5 years ago

+1! Although I can't see this coming...

Further advancements: Context-menu 'Save .torrent(s) in...' (multiple selection possible). Automagically save the .torrent-file(s)

or, in case payload is just 1 file

Advantages: You will not have to move the .torrent-file from desktop or elsewehere to somewhere. It then resides already in the folder, where it doesn't hurt and in a unique place for later use, such as re-seeding (magnets are nice, but the .torrent-files are REALLY hard to get for low seeded payloads).

This feature would save me AGES.

ghost commented 5 years ago

+1

thalieht commented 5 years ago

1296 related.

oyvindsaether commented 3 years ago

I'm seeing a now really old Red Star Linux torrent. It is still interesting even though it's been a while. The original trackers no longer work, they are all dead.

It's possible to edit the trackers in qBittorrent but they can't be saved to a updated torrent in 4.4.0alpha1. That's very annoying. Further, I can't just cp the torrent from .local/share/data/qBittorrent/BT_backup/ (finding out which torrent there is which when the names are all hashes is another matter) since the new trackers are saved in a .fastresume file, not the .torrent file.

It would be real useful if it was possible to just right-click any torrent in qBittorrent and have a "Save .torrent" option in the context menu that would save it with the currently selected trackers (if you say replace non-working ones with new working ones).

With BitTorrent 2.0, it would perhaps be extra useful if it could save the torrents in a selectable format (either BitTorrent v1 and v2) so you could open a v1 torrent in qBittorrent and just save it as a v2 torrent.

VolatileCable commented 3 years ago

There's now a function in latest libtorrent2 to handle this, so might be easier to implement now: https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/commit/cb9c7ac8d30a28513383ac14cffdb1e558fe0e56

DarrenPIngram commented 3 years ago

If this could be implemented it would be very good. I note the comment by "VolatileCable" which may give some inkling of future good news?

zellchristensen commented 3 years ago

Would love to see this implemented. I also wanted to add that it would be great if any modifications to the torrent name, file structure, or file name changes could also be saved as well as updated trackers, but those might not be a possibility.

DarrenPIngram commented 3 years ago

Certainly those proposals would be good, but I could understand if they are more complex to implement. Even if there was an option to "save torrent" from the QB web interface, which saves a new copy of files but with "proper" file names that are readable would be better than nothing. Maybe the developers can consider matters?

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Would love to see this implemented. I also wanted to add that it would be great if any modifications to the torrent name, file structure, or file name changes could also be saved as well as updated trackers, but those might not be a possibility.

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Kippykip commented 2 years ago

Is this seriously not a feature after being requesting and moved to like 3 different "issues" since 2017 lmao If it's too hard just just add a "show .torrent file location" instead

larkable commented 2 years ago

A good use case would be for people like me that want to move their torrents to a seedbox or separate computer. Exporting would make it easy for me to find my torrent files to be able to move the files over to a seedbox.

I would really like an "export to" function for my .torrent files. Magnet links don't always work, especially if you are the only seeder, which I am on a lot of torrents that I have seeding.

masterkain commented 2 years ago

I was kinda surprised by the lack of this feature

ludoux commented 2 years ago

Hi everyone. I also suffered from this problem and ended up making an unofficial third party tool qbittorrent-torrents-exporter that can be used to export .torrent files, which requires a BT_backup folder and a running client with Web API supported. It will get torrents list from Web API and copy .torrent file from BT_backup to export folder with rename action (and append "missing" trackers as qb4.4+ may remove trackers from .torrent file)

This was originally just for my personal use, but I think there may be some people who also need it. (it has not been extensively tested and I will not be responsible for any possible damage. :)

I hope the qBbittorrent will officially support this feature in the near future and thanks to the maintainers.

larkable commented 2 years ago

Now that you can have your torrent data saved in a .db file and it isn't possible to dig into the fastresume/torrent files folder anymore (if you use the feature), it should definitely be a feature to export selected torrents to a ZIP or to a folder.

thalieht commented 2 years ago

This will be possible in 4.5.0 from transfer list context menu.