All Plugins missing after v5 update; Not supported error and not able to reinstall

[godzfire]

qBittorrent & operating system versions

OS: Mac OS Monetary 12.7.6 (21H1320) Intel qBittorrent: v5.0.0 (64-bit) Qt: 6.7.3 Libtorrent: 1.2.19.0 Boost: 1.86.0 OpenSSL: 3.3.2 zlib: 1.2.11

What is the problem?

v5 broke search plugins again. None are showing up. Same thing now happening to 4.6.7. Delete pycache and init.py. Updated to most current version of Python. Tried manually readding plugins locally and then gives the second error message. Currently no way to fix or use.

Steps to reproduce

1. Click Search tab
2. Screen is blank with message, "There aren't any search plugins installed."

Additional context

No response

Log(s) & preferences file(s)

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[MayhemMechanix]

Exact same issue for me

[TheYMI]

Same issue on Windows 10

[xavier2k6]

There have been a few issues identified with the use of v5.0.0. (which requires Python 3.7.0 as minimum)

1. Some unofficial plugins have become unsupported & (may) need to be removed manually by user.
2. Issue has been identified with python 3.7.x/3.8.x installed. (Python 3.9+ seemed to be unaffected)

If you have python 3.7.x / 3.8.x installed, you have 2 options

1. Uninstall that version of python & install latest standalone version of python 3.13.0 for your system macOS / Windows 10+
2. Wait for qBittorrent v5.0.1 (has fix for python 3.7.x / 3.8.x)

If you have multiple python versions installed, you have 2 options

1. Select the python path in advanced options to the python.exe
2. Uninstall all versions of python & install latest standalone version of python 3.13.0 for your system macOS / Windows 10+

[indig0F10w]

So plugins which have worked on v4 will not work on v5 until they are updated or until v5.0.1 is released?

[xavier2k6]

@indig0F10w There has been 1 unofficial plugin (tokyotoshokan.py) that doesn't seem to work & Pull Requests are opened upstream for it to be fixed, we have no control over that or any other unofficial plugin.

[xavier2k6]

one337x.py or 1337x as it's also known appears to be incompatible.

It installs but returns no results.

[Boyswholikefruit]

Windows 10 Pro, qbittorent 5.0.0 64-bit, Python 3.13 (fresh install; uninstalled 3.12 then combed for leftover files from previous version.) Have been following this issue since Oct. 1 and thus have read through all the comments & tried most of the suggestions on the previous thread before it was closed/moved here. Just want to confirm that deleting the tokyo toshokan plugin fixed everything. All is normal again--no issues with 1337x, it returns results with no issue. I did not need to uninstall/reinstall qbittorrent or even restart my PC. Also, Tokyo toshokan has an RSS feed so you can still keep track of the uploads until the plugin works again or qbit 5.0.1 is released. For those who need it, here's how you manually delete a plugin from qbittorrent: open your folder explorer program, search for 'nova3,' clicky the folder, clicky 'engines,' and voila--all your search plugins. Be sure to delete both the plugin and its associated icon. Thank you very much @xavier2k6 for providing so much support and feedback for nearly two weeks. Your assistance has been invaluable to me and undoubtedly everyone else experiencing the issue.

[xavier2k6]

@Boyswholikefruit you're more than welcome, glad I could help.

no issues with 1337x, it returns results with no issue.

This is interesting, as I haven't been able to get any results & a few other users are having issues with the plugin.

Could you provide a copy of that plugin or the source of where you downloaded it from if it wasn't from our plugins repo.

Users like myself could be just GeoIP restricted or under some cloudflare protection etc.

[uusea]

All Plugins missing after v5 update; Not supported error and not able to reinstall

[TheYMI]

I downgraded to v4.6.7 (because of the GUI changes), and now I can't even reinstall the search plugins that were there before I upgraded.

[RobDeSoporte]

Hello everyone.

Maybe I've solved the problem, at least in my laptop running Windows 11 Pro.

I was in the same situation, upgraded QbitTorrent to 5.0.0 and the search engines died. After reading your previous posts, I tried two solutions:

1) Clean all the search engines and tried to reinstall them manually: Failed. 2) Uninstalled Python 3.8 from my OS, installed Python 3.13 from the web, restarted QB and...

Sorry for my bad english. I usually speak spanish 😅 I hope this post can help you.

EDIT: Just one of my previous search engine list shows the error now when I try to install it.

[YasuoQAQ]

Hello everyone.

Maybe I've solved the problem, at least in my laptop running Windows 11 Pro.

I was in the same situation, upgraded QbitTorrent to 5.0.0 and the search engines died. After reading your previous posts, I tried two solutions:

1. Clean all the search engines and tried to reinstall them manually: Failed.
2. Uninstalled Python 3.8 from my OS, installed Python 3.13 from the web, restarted QB and...

Sorry for my bad english. I usually speak spanish 😅 I hope this post can help you.

EDIT: Just one of my previous search engine list shows the error now when I try to install it.

https://forum.qbittorrent.org/viewtopic.php?t=11747

[Jason-Singleton]

I fixed this for me by killing all the relavant files out of \AppData\Local\qBittorrent\nova3\engines python files and icons. restarted app and valid ones reinstalled on reboot.

[pavichokche]

I fixed this for me by killing all the relavant files out of \AppData\Local\qBittorrent\nova3\engines python files and icons. restarted app and valid ones reinstalled on reboot.

That did it! Although it gutted the overall list of plugins, perhaps those are the only ones which work nowadays...

[Boyswholikefruit]

@Boyswholikefruit you're more than welcome, glad I could help. @xavier2k6 (ㅅ´ ˘ `)

no issues with 1337x, it returns results with no issue. This is interesting, as I haven't been able to get any results & a few other users are having issues with the plugin. Could you provide a copy of that plugin or the source of where you downloaded it from if it wasn't from our plugins repo.

Ah, sorry. I'm late now. I had nothing to add--the plugin for 1337x is indeed the one from the plugin repo. I did nothing but copy/paste. Further, I've hand no issues with anything in the program, and I upgraded to 5.0.1 then 5.0.2 w/o incident. The 1337x plugin works still, unsure about Tokyo Toshokon because I just use the RSS feed instead. I did update my plugins from the search tab in qbittorrent last night & all was fine (on windows 10 pro 64-bit, python 3.13, qbittorrent 5.0.2).

You may not need to delete every plugin!

It's tedious to reinstall them all so try manually deleting just the Tokyo Toshokon plugin first & see if that fixes the issue. If no, uninstall python and then install the latest version then check the plugins/search again. For me, deleting that one plugin and removing old python (v3.12) and installing new python (v3.13) solved things. To manually delete plugin----open folder explorer program, search for 'nova3,' clicky the folder, clicky 'engines', and there are all your plugins.•ᴗ•

[MrBogger]

I found that deleting all of the plugins from the nova3\engines folder and then reinstalling them all worked on reinstall. My method was to download all the plugin files to a directory and then multiple select to install them without having to do each one individually. When trying to 'install a new one' for one that already exists in the 'engines' folder, it threw the "plugin not supported" error so I believe the issue is when there is an existing file with the same name in the directory.

[RafaelLVX]

Installing this and doing this fixed the issue for me on qBittorrent 5.0.2+Windows 11. No need to uninstall previous Python or reinstall all search engines, which sound like a lot of work.

I had a Jackett API error after this though, not sure why. Maybe it has been disabled forever and it got reenabled after the update? Doubtful. Anyway, steps to fix this was:

• Closing qBittorrent.
• Installing the latest version from here.
• Running Jackett as a service, which creates an icon on the tray.
• Right click Jackett icon and open Web UI. API key is in the top right corner.
• Paste that API key to the relevant section of %userprofile%\AppData\Local\qBittorrent\nova3\engines\jackett.json.
• Open qBittorrent.

Much as I dislike having to install shit as a service that you hardly ever look at again and not knowing if you actually need it, it really only took 2 minutes.