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Download Clients

Go to Settings > Clients to setup clients.
Clients can be local or remote, as long as ports are open and auth available.

These are the available download clients.

  • qBittorrent
  • Deluge (v1+ and v2+)
  • rTorrent / ruTorrent
  • Transmission
  • Radarr
  • Sonarr
  • Lidarr
  • Readarr
  • Whisparr

All clients have a test function to try out the connection details before saving.

Don't forget to give the client a name!

Configure Download Clients​

qBittorrent​

You can run autobrr and qBittorrent on the following setups.

  • Local server
  • Remote server
  • Docker / container

Local​

For a local client, meaning autobrr and qBittorrent on the same server then this should work. Check qBittorrent settings to get the WEBUI_PORT.

  • Host: http://127.0.0.1:WEBUI_PORT
  • TLS: disabled
  • Username: <username>
  • Password: <password>

Remote​

For a remote client, meaning autobrr and qBittorrent are not on the same server then things might be a bit different.

  • Host: https://myserver.brr/qbittorrent
  • TLS: enabled
  • Skip TLS verification: disabled (try this first)
  • Username: <username>
  • Password: <password>

Some setups like Swizzin requires to also use Basic Auth when connecting to it from a remote server.

  • Basic Auth: enabled
  • Username: <username>
  • Password: <password>

Docker​

With Docker / containers make sure autobrr and qBittorrent share the same network to be able to use the container_name as address.

  • Host: http://qbittorrent:WEBUI_PORT
  • TLS: disabled
  • Username: <username>
  • Password: <password>

qBittorrent rules​

You can define some basic rules which can improve your performance for racing etc.

  • Enabled: Disabled by default.
  • Max active downloads: Default 0 (unlimited). Limit the amount of active downloads, to give the maximum amount of bandwidth and disk for the downloads.
  • Ignore slow torrents: Disabled by default.
  • Download speed threshold: If max active downloads is hit, but download speed is below this limit, download anyway. Unit in KB/s.

Deluge​

You can run autobrr and Deluge on the following setups.

  • Local server
  • Remote server
  • Docker / container

Deluge is split into two versions:

  • Deluge which is v1 like 1.3.15
  • Deluge 2 which is v2 like 2.0.0+

Select TYPE then set these.

Local​

For a local client, meaning autobrr and Deluge on the same server then this should work. Check Deluge settings to get the DAEMON_PORT.

  • Host: 127.0.0.1
  • Port: DAEMON_PORT
  • TLS: disabled
  • Username: <username>
  • Password: <password>

Remote​

For a remote client, meaning autobrr and Deluge are not on the same server then things might be a bit different.

  • Host: myserver.brr
  • Port: DAEMON_PORT
  • TLS: disabled
  • Username: <username>
  • Password: <password>

Some setups like Swizzin requires to also use Basic Auth when connecting to it from a remote server.

  • Basic Auth: enabled
  • Username: <username>
  • Password: <password>

Docker​

With Docker / containers make sure autobrr and Deluge share the same network to be able to use the container_name as address.

  • Host: deluge
  • Port: DAEMON_PORT
  • TLS: disabled
  • Username: <username>
  • Password: <password>

Deluge rules​

You can define some basic rules which can improve your performance for racing etc.

  • Enabled: Disabled by default.
  • Max active downloads: Default 0 (unlimited). Limit the amount of active downloads, to give the maximum amount of bandwidth and disk for the downloads.

rTorrent / ruTorrent​

You can run autobrr and rTorrent / ruTorrent on the following setups.

  • Local server
  • Remote server
  • Docker / container

Local​

For a local client, meaning autobrr and ruTorrent on the same server try these.

Here are a couple of common ways for how to access ruTorrent. Username and password needs to be set in the url as basic auth.

  • Host: http://user:password@127.0.0.1/rutorrent/plugins/httprpc/action.php
  • Host: http://user:password@localhost/rutorrent/plugins/httprpc/action.php
  • Host: http://user:password@localhost/RPC2

If you are on a shared seedbox you might need your username in the url like:

  • Host: http://user:password@localhost/USERNAME/rutorrent/plugins/httprpc/action.php

Remote​

For a remote client, meaning autobrr and rTorrent are not on the same server then things might be a bit different.

  • Host: http://user:password@EXTERNAL_IP/rutorrent/plugins/httprpc/action.php
  • Host: http://user:password@mydomain.com/rutorrent/plugins/httprpc/action.php

Docker​

With Docker / containers make sure autobrr and rTorrent share the same network to be able to use the container_name as address.

  • Host: http://user:password@rtorrent/rutorrent/plugins/httprpc/action.php

Transmission​

You can run autobrr and Transmission on the following setups.

  • Local server
  • Remote server
  • Docker / container

Local​

For a local client, meaning autobrr and Transmission on the same server then this should work. Check Transmission settings to get the WEBUI_PORT. Default is 9091.

  • Host: 127.0.0.1
  • Port: 9091
  • TLS: disabled
  • Username: <username>
  • Password: <password>

Remote​

For a remote client, meaning autobrr and Transmission are not on the same server then things might be a bit different.

  • Host: myserver.brr or IP
  • Port: 9091
  • TLS: enabled
  • Skip TLS verification: disabled (try this first)
  • Username: <username>
  • Password: <password>

HTTPS / TLS

  • Host: myserver.brr/transmission or IP
  • Port: 443
  • TLS: enabled
  • Skip TLS verification: disabled (try this first)
  • Username: <username>
  • Password: <password>

Docker​

With Docker / containers make sure autobrr and Transmission share the same network to be able to use the container_name as address.

  • Host: transmission
  • Port: 9091
  • TLS: disabled
  • Username: <username>
  • Password: <password>

Sonarr​

You can run autobrr and Sonarr apps on the following setups.

  • Local server
  • Remote server
  • Docker / container

Local​

For a local client, meaning autobrr and Sonarr on the same server then this should work.

  • Host: http://127.0.0.1:8989
  • API Key: API KEY

On Swizzin or if you are running Sonarr with a baseUrl set that in the url as well like:

  • Host: http://127.0.0.1:8989/sonarr

Remote​

For a remote client, meaning autobrr and Sonarr are not on the same server then things might be a bit different.

  • Host: http://mydomain.com:8989 or https://mydomain.com/sonarr
  • API Key: API KEY

On Swizzin or if you are running Sonarr with a baseUrl set that in the url as well like:

  • Host: https://mydomain.com/sonarr

Docker​

With Docker / containers make sure autobrr and Sonarr share the same network to be able to use the container_name as address.

  • Host: http://sonarr:8989
  • API Key: API KEY

Radarr​

You can run autobrr and Radarr apps on the following setups.

  • Local server
  • Remote server
  • Docker / container

Local​

For a local client, meaning autobrr and Radarr on the same server then this should work.

  • Host: http://127.0.0.1:7878
  • API Key: API KEY

On Swizzin or if you are running Radarr with a baseUrl set that in the url as well like:

  • Host: http://127.0.0.1:7878/radarr

Remote​

For a remote client, meaning autobrr and Radarr are not on the same server then things might be a bit different.

  • Host: http://mydomain.com:7878 or https://mydomain.com/radarr
  • API Key: API KEY

On Swizzin or if you are running Radarr with a baseUrl set that in the url as well like:

  • Host: https://mydomain.com/radarr

Docker​

With Docker / containers make sure autobrr and Radarr share the same network to be able to use the container_name as address.

  • Host: http://radarr:7878
  • API Key: API KEY

Lidarr​

See Radarr and Sonarr but port 8686.

Whisparr​

See Radarr and Sonarr but port 6969.