How to Setup qBittorrent-nox with FlexGet RSS Feeder for Linux (Ubuntu)

How to Install Latest qBittorrent on Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop and Server

Step 1 - Installation and Web UI information

sudo apt install qbittorrent-nox

http://localhost:8080. The Web UI access is secured by default, and the default account username is (admin), and the password is (adminadmin).

Step 2 - Setup system user and group

sudo adduser --system --group qbittorrent-nox
sudo adduser your-username qbittorrent-nox

Step 3 - Create the service file

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/qbittorrent-nox.service

copy and paste the following lines into the file.

[Unit]
Description=qBittorrent Command Line Client
After=network.target

[Service]
#Do not change to "simple"
Type=forking
User=qbittorrent-nox
Group=qbittorrent-nox
UMask=007
ExecStart=/usr/bin/qbittorrent-nox -d --webui-port=8082 Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Step 4 - Start, enable and check status of service.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start qbittorrent-nox
sudo systemctl enable qbittorrent-nox
systemctl status qbittorrent-nox

Step 5 - Open Firewall ports

sudo ufw allow 8082/tcp
sudo ufw reload

Step 7 - Change permissions for the Default Save Path

chmod g+s /<directory>  //set gid 
setfacl -d -m g::rwx /<directory>  //set group to rwx default 

getfacl /<directory>

sudo chmod 777 -R /<directory>

Output of getfacl:

# file: ../<directory>/
# owner: <user>
# group: media
# flags: -s-
user::rwx
group::rwx
other::r-x
default:user::rwx
default:group::rwx
default:other::r-x

FlexGet

Step 1 - Install

sudo apt install python3.10-venv
python3 -m venv ~/flexget/
cd ~/flexget/
bin/pip install flexget

Step 2 - Run FlexGet

source ~/flexget/bin/activate

Step 3 - Configuration

• Sample config.yml

• Creating Templates

~/.config/flexget/config.yml

Step 4 - Execute FlexGet

flexget execute --tasks Series-*

flexget execute --disable-tracking

flexget check	

*Note that if downloads are failing disable the tracking.

Step 5 - Scheduling

To determine where FlexGet command resides run:

which flexget

Using Cronjobs

@reboot/usr/local/bin/flexget daemon start -d
@hourly /usr/local/bin/flexget --cron execute