How to use the qBittorrent torrent client from a web interface

Among the most popular and used ones, qBittorrent stands out, which has the possibility of being used from a web interface.Without a doubt , we are talking about one of the most powerful and stable torrent clients .It is a free, open source software program using the Qt library.

It will only be necessary to download the installer and run it for its assistant to complete the entire process.

Enable web interface

Once we run we access its main menu.From here, we must enter its “ Options” section. We will find within the “Tools” tab.This will enable a new window, and we click on the “Web Interface”.

Just below in IP Addresses, we must have port 8080 by default along with 127.0.0.1 .

By default, the user is “admin” and the password is “adminadmin.”.

Once this is done, we could start using the web interface and qBittorrent, so that the configuration changes are saved.

Once the configuration is finished, we can access the qBittorrent web interface by opening our browser.

If we clicks on the “ Tools” button, we can access its “ Options” section.

You will find the “ Downloads” section here .This will help us change the location where we want the downloads we make to be stored. It will also help us stop incomplete torrents.

From the “Connection” section we can configure the connection protocols , the port used for incoming connections and the connection limits.

In the “Speed” tab we can set the global speed limits for both upload and download.

add files

To start using it, you have to insert the files that you want to download.To do this, click on the “File” tab and we will have the possibility to choose between “Add torrent file”, in case we have it downloaded on our computer by so it will not be necessary to have it previously downloaded.